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Bridgerton

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Generally favorable reviews based on 115 Critic Reviews

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Generally favorable reviews based on 151 Ratings

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Bridgerton

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Netflix | Release Date: December 25, 2020

Summary: Set in the 1800s, the historical romantic drama created by Chris Van Dusen and based on Julia Quinn's series of novels focuses on the powerful Bridgerton family beginning with eldest daughter Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) as she meets eternal bachelor, the Duke of Hasting (Regé-Jean Page).

Genre(s): Drama

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Critic Reviews

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Chicago Sun-Times

Richard Roeper

Dec 24, 2020

Season 1 Review: It’s an unqualified triumph. ... “Bridgerton” is Jane Austen meets “Scandal” meets “Gossip Girl” meets “The Favourite,” resulting in a wonderfully anachronistic mashup with gorgeous visuals, high-end production values and suitably larger-than-life performances by the talented cast. Read full review

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Collider Carly Lane

May 16, 2024

Season 3 Review: By embracing the best moments of Quinn's novel Romancing Mister Bridgerton as well as adding new scenes that create deeper dimensions to the story, the series is in good hands with Jess Brownell taking over from this point on. Read full review

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i Emily Baker

Jan 30, 2026

Season 4 Review: It may not be new or as inventive as it once was (it bears repeating that this series’ central love story is a Cinderella rip-off), but it remains a wonderful, luxurious watch. Read full review

74

Paste Magazine

Lacy Baugher

Mar 21, 2022

Season 2 Review: The end result is something that is, on all accounts, honestly mostly fine, but that is ultimately tarnished by the memory of how good what came before it was. Read full review

70

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Rob Owen

Dec 24, 2020

Season 1 Review: It’s more like soapier, sexier Jane Austen-lite that would benefit from a dash more wit. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Mar 28, 2022

Season 2 Review: Even at its most over-the-top, the show can be fun to watch, though it often feels like biting into fluffy cotton candy only to come away with a mouth full of cloying marzipan. [28 Mar - 10 Apr 2022, p.7] Read full review

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Vox.com

Aja Romano

Jan 12, 2021

Season 1 Review: Instead of filling that opulent, 19th-century setting with true passion and heart, the show comes off like many of the aristocrats it’s skewering: soulless and vapid. Read full review

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nfratesi

Apr 1, 2022

so insanely good it gives a very downton abbey type of vibe, except it's more playful 10/10

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Oroblah

Jan 12, 2021

Excellent show. Highly entertaining. I was never bored. Don’t let the negative reviews dissuade you, most of them are just objecting to the people of color.

6 of 28 users found this helpful622

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Mayarruda

Dec 28, 2020

Absolutely amazing! The cast, the songs, the dialogues... everything is spectacular!

8 of 33 users found this helpful825

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chookie68

Nov 5, 2021

This to add another to the few critical voices, compared with all the gushing comments about 'Bridgerton'. What on earth is going on in this society? Should art go to such extreme lengths to be 'inclusive'. I want to repeat what others have said; indeed it needs to be heard more in publicThis to add another to the few critical voices, compared with all the gushing comments about 'Bridgerton'. What on earth is going on in this society? Should art go to such extreme lengths to be 'inclusive'. I want to repeat what others have said; indeed it needs to be heard more in public comments, because most people today seem afraid to speak against the PC zeitgeist: Why is this not considered 'Cultural Appropriation' the way it would be if, for example, White people played American native Indians in a modern cowboy movie?? What's next? Biographical movies with a Black Churchill or Roosevelt? What about all-Black re-makes of 'Amadeus' or 'The Crown?'… Expand

5 of 6 users found this helpful51

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jessicafbitten

Jun 6, 2021

So thinking in a logical way is being ''close minded'' nowdays... The diversity on this show makes no sense at all. Saying this is like saying 2 + 2 = 4, its just pure logic, and i wont keep myself from telling the truth because of the woke mob. England is a white european country, alwaysSo thinking in a logical way is being ''close minded'' nowdays... The diversity on this show makes no sense at all. Saying this is like saying 2 + 2 = 4, its just pure logic, and i wont keep myself from telling the truth because of the woke mob. England is a white european country, always has been, and shall always be, celtic and anglo-saxon people are the indigenous population of that region, its insane that this is even a thing, that we need to say the obvious. We will not be replaced, thats it.… Expand

8 of 9 users found this helpful81

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Trev4664

Jun 10, 2023

Drivel. I got through the first few episode and that was enough. Bad acting, bad script, bad casting. The casting owes more to being woke that to actual talent. It bares no relation to the period is is supposed to portray. It is pointless garbage.

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waltondraxler

Jan 15, 2021

let's set the record straight : So whitewashing is cultural appropriation, but BLACKWASHING is historical repair? Wow nice... So in order to promote racial iguality we perpetuate toxic practices in the entertainment industry? So it's fine a black actor to take a role that would logically golet's set the record straight : So whitewashing is cultural appropriation, but BLACKWASHING is historical repair? Wow nice... So in order to promote racial iguality we perpetuate toxic practices in the entertainment industry? So it's fine a black actor to take a role that would logically go to a white actor(we're talking about a tv series that portrays European royalty in the 1810s, after all) because of...hum, ''historical repair''? interesting, by this same logic, it would be JUST FINE if a white actor was casted randomly in a japonese period TV Show about japonese royalt, playing a royal japonese character, with a japonese name, because well, we never saw white people represented in asian television, so it would be really nice to make this ''historical repair'', right? Because you know, ''representation matters'', even when it makes no sense... Bridgerton it's just pure sensationalism, a show that lacks any real substance, and exists only to please a handful of stupid and naive people, that are very scandalous on social media, so the companies feel coerced to bow, because they cannot risk losing some sponsorships. This is a show that basically spits in western history(no SJWs, dear ''woke'' people, there were no blacks in the european high society at that time, and certainly there was no black person in the British royal family before Meghan Markle, this is not even a ''hot take'', this is just straight facts LOL) in the name of hypocritical and opportunistic notions of equality, it's the kind of TV garbage that american''liberals''love so much,''oh look how inclusive we are, we put some black people in everything, it's great to fight against racism, what a great person i am!'', but all they do is regurgitate empty speeches and improvise acts of''damage containment'', just to say that they are doing something. This show is an american''damage containment'', a completely hollow pile of crap that sells itself as bold and important when in reality is just another disposable content that exists just so a bunch of hypocritical, condescending, and overly sensitive people can give a little tap in their own backs and sleep well, thinking that they did their part. Bridgerton is a perfect example of American cynicism, they should leave period pieces with the english. (And no, saying things like ''it's just fiction, so they can do whatever they want with the plot and cast actors of any color'' is not a valid argument, because even when an audiovisual work is mostly fictional, if it includes true events of history, and portrays people who really existed, the veracity of these events has to be preserved, respecting the minutiae of what was officially described. Fiction does not mean abdicating basic logic, not when it comes to adapting true events, as much you may take some poetic liberties, the faithful reproduction of central elements of the real story must be maintained, if not, will you not be making a coheecive and respecful piece of entertainment, you will be making a bad joke. So yes, this show is racist for blackwashing white history and casting black actors to play people that would logically be white. That's it.… Expand

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