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Positive:
75
Mixed:
40
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Critic Reviews
Jan 29, 2026
Season 4 Review:
As charming as she is, Ha cannot make up for scripts that struggle to create narrative stakes, import or feeling. It's as if everyone involved in the juggernaut Netflix show is twiddling their thumbs, waiting for a more interesting Bridgerton sibling to take over the main story.
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May 16, 2024
Season 3 Review:
After watching the batch of episodes released as Part 1 of this new season, I—much like the “on-the-shelf” Penelope—confess myself exhausted by standing at the edges of all these endless ballrooms, watching these sumptuously dressed rich people do their dancing and exchange their speaking glances. After the fourth or so installment turning on the events at so-and-so’s musicale or so-and-so’s luncheon, I find myself thirsting for a different setting and different stakes.
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The Daily BeastMar 23, 2022
Season 2 Review:
There’s heat between Ashley and Bailey, but the delicious, simmering tension of Season 1 never comes. Rather than a slow boil, Anthony and Kate’s relationship sputters through all the familiar beats without much rhythm. The crackling arguments, gasping emotional beats, and some admittedly hot glove play are all there, but the spark is not.
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RogerEbert.comDec 24, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The result is an inconsistently paced effort that ultimately reveals itself as an entirely predictable “Pride and Prejudice” retread. “Bridgerton” is amusing enough and will scratch a certain thirsty itch, but its themes about love, marriage, and class aren’t quite as progressive as it would like to think.
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Dec 21, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It’s a fun show, for a while at least; the escapism quotient is high, especially at the end of a year without parties or gowns or skin-to-skin contact between people who don’t already share a bathroom. And it’s exciting to see Shondaland, which spent so many years chronicling the adventures of 21st-century professional superwomen, play around in a genre where feminist empowerment is harder to come by. If only the writing matched the production values.
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Jan 29, 2026The TelegraphJan 29, 2026
The TelegraphMay 16, 2024
Season 3 Review:
The dialogue, the gossip, the ballroom dances to Billie Eilish songs: it’s all there, just the same as it ever was. The writers seem to have given up. .... Fans of #Polin will be beside themselves when the pair finally get steam. Curiously, though, they have almost zero chemistry.
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The IndependentMay 16, 2024
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