Bridgerton

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Dec 25, 2020
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
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5.7

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  2. Mixed: 7 out of 121
  3. Negative: 48 out of 121

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  1. jonasbttencourt
    Jan 11, 2021
    1
    This show is one of the stupidest things i've ever seen. An annoying, cliche fairy tale that is the very definition of fake, toxic wokeness, with it's completely forced diversity and hollow story. Not to mention the plobematic ''romance'' that comes with in(they even glamurize rape),but i guess everyone is just happy to look past that, because the actor is a good looking black guy, soThis show is one of the stupidest things i've ever seen. An annoying, cliche fairy tale that is the very definition of fake, toxic wokeness, with it's completely forced diversity and hollow story. Not to mention the plobematic ''romance'' that comes with in(they even glamurize rape),but i guess everyone is just happy to look past that, because the actor is a good looking black guy, so calling that out would be ''racist'' LOL... What a stupid piece of garbage, i just hope that this show has the shortest run possible.… Expand
  2. edstarkley
    Jan 13, 2021
    1
    As a rape victim myself, it's really shocking and disgusting the fact that people are overlooking this show's sickening glamourization of rape, and how they portray toxic romantic relationships as nothing more than a ''bold'' and ''sexy'' thing to everyone to watch. This show is a niphomaniac's dream, it's the perfect ''edgy'' and ''witty'' suggestive content that can get any sexualAs a rape victim myself, it's really shocking and disgusting the fact that people are overlooking this show's sickening glamourization of rape, and how they portray toxic romantic relationships as nothing more than a ''bold'' and ''sexy'' thing to everyone to watch. This show is a niphomaniac's dream, it's the perfect ''edgy'' and ''witty'' suggestive content that can get any sexual predator an aditional incentive to abuse, since this show seems just fine with romanticizing things like rape. On behalf of sexual abuse victims, i say : Thank you Netflix, for preaching this important message, now we know that rape is wrong, unless you are a good looking black guy...The show has some good music, by the way.… Expand
  3. leonhinds
    Jan 11, 2021
    1
    Ok guys it's just me or this show is just an 8 hours long BLACKED video but with the explicit sex scenes cut off? LOL... The whole thing it's just SO bad, the dialogs are terrible, the costumes look like they came from de Bill&Ted movies, the story is so hollow and the characters are so unlikeble. I'm truly shocked that nobody is talking about how they glamurize raping, oh yeah! Since theOk guys it's just me or this show is just an 8 hours long BLACKED video but with the explicit sex scenes cut off? LOL... The whole thing it's just SO bad, the dialogs are terrible, the costumes look like they came from de Bill&Ted movies, the story is so hollow and the characters are so unlikeble. I'm truly shocked that nobody is talking about how they glamurize raping, oh yeah! Since the actor is a black dude, would be ''racist'' to bring that up, so i guess he can rape aroud LOL... This show is the dream of fake woke rich white people, just a boring and hypocritical pile of ****… Expand
  4. jerrettdrayson
    Jan 11, 2021
    0
    This show is like paradise for white ''liberals'', it's the equivalent of ''well, Obama became president, so i guess racism is over now, folks!''...Bridgerton is just an ugly looking, nonsensical mess of a show that can just be praised by internet SJWs for its supposedly ''woke'' agenda, when in reality is just another historically inaccurate, hypocritical, sensationalist, and vulgar pieceThis show is like paradise for white ''liberals'', it's the equivalent of ''well, Obama became president, so i guess racism is over now, folks!''...Bridgerton is just an ugly looking, nonsensical mess of a show that can just be praised by internet SJWs for its supposedly ''woke'' agenda, when in reality is just another historically inaccurate, hypocritical, sensationalist, and vulgar piece of TV garbage… Expand
  5. robertcintra
    Jan 12, 2021
    3
    Ok, 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 go to a white actor(we're talking about a tv series that portrays European royalty in the 1810s,Ok, 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 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
  6. waltondraxler
    Jan 15, 2021
    0
    Bridgerton is one of the biggest exemples of how hypocritical and authoritarian the ''woke'' left truly is:They want to repair cultural appropriations of the past with cultural appropriation, they want to ''fight'' structural racism by practicing racism, they want to ''fight against ignorance'' by rewriting history(ironically, a recurring practice of racist regimes such as Nazism, ItalianBridgerton is one of the biggest exemples of how hypocritical and authoritarian the ''woke'' left truly is:They want to repair cultural appropriations of the past with cultural appropriation, they want to ''fight'' structural racism by practicing racism, they want to ''fight against ignorance'' by rewriting history(ironically, a recurring practice of racist regimes such as Nazism, Italian fascism, and Soviet socialism)...Very skillfully , as they say things like "we need to end divisions and injustices in society", they perpetuate divisions and injustices in society. These people know how to disguise themselves very well as humanists while moving forward with their totalitarian and essentially inhuman agenda.… Expand
  7. JustBrutal
    Jan 7, 2021
    0
    A disgusting attempt to black-wash English history for the sake of diversity.
  8. Kneeling
    Jan 6, 2021
    0
    Not enough kneeling, and representation. Not enough kneeling, and representation.
  9. malka
    Dec 27, 2020
    0
    Ridiculous and pathetic Regency porn. Made with an american recipe for pure entertainment to the nether part of the brain. I liked the color thing until it was mentioned. Dont let people think themselves!
    good acting though.
  10. dhporter
    Jan 4, 2021
    0
    Awful modern take, and hypocritical to make. It's not cultural appropriation when they do it huh? Netflix always like to opt for a diverse cast instead of a good plot to stir the media. A cheap trick that still works.
  11. CriticoDubioso
    Dec 27, 2020
    0
    As expected, its garbage. So many good 'critic' reviews is because of the 'color blind' casting I guess. Metacritic says its like "Downton Abbey...with more sex". Shows like Downton Abbey did just fine without the sex.
  12. Jess12334
    Dec 29, 2020
    2
    Julia Quinn is a fantastic author who did a fantastic job with her novels. I own all of the Brigertons novels, and love how historically accurate they are with well developed characters who challenged the societal and gender norms of the day. (1805ish) I was really taken back when the royalty was black but thought "well maybe they were just the best actors and actresses for the job?" NotJulia Quinn is a fantastic author who did a fantastic job with her novels. I own all of the Brigertons novels, and love how historically accurate they are with well developed characters who challenged the societal and gender norms of the day. (1805ish) I was really taken back when the royalty was black but thought "well maybe they were just the best actors and actresses for the job?" Not historically accurate but hey whatever its Hollywood. Then they had to go and make it political. I hate that they destroyed her work, if it was named something else or loosely based on her ideas then it would be a fantastic work (if it was not trying to make a political statement) but when you take an authors work, her name, her ideas and characters you don't change it to your own idea and political arguments and call it the same thing.… Expand
  13. snorkiss
    Dec 26, 2020
    3
    This poorly written Netflix original laughs in the face of historical accuracy and managed the neat trick of simultaneously boring and disturbing me. - 3 stars
  14. striga
    Dec 26, 2020
    0
    Just more of the same eye-roll-inducing drivel intent on interjecting nonsense into history.
  15. Pitbulllover
    Dec 26, 2020
    0
    Im a fan of Julian Fellowes - and adaptations of Jane Austen, etc. - but this is terrible. Badly cast, weirdly comin - trying way to hard to be light and breezy. Barely made it through one episode. Appreciate the diverse casting, but acting is over-the-top
  16. HidoLu
    Dec 30, 2020
    0
    Woke pile of trash. Diversity quotas that make no sense or have any basis in reality. It's corporate diversity inclusive trash! And the idiots lick it up.
  17. Pedrokelvi
    Jan 22, 2021
    0
    The customization of this series is simply disconnected from its proposal, the costumes are pretty bad. The performances are horrible
  18. raphaelfelice
    Jan 18, 2021
    0
    What really can be said about this thing? I simply have no words to describe, and i honestly think it's not even worth it to spend time and energy talking about this trash. I just had to came here to give this thing the 0 score that it deserves.
  19. clarencenoland
    May 2, 2021
    0
    I had to create an account here to do justice and give this bad show the low score it deserves, i am not a tv critic, just a regular guy giving my humble opinion, so i don't have to elaborate a super elegant argumment in order to justify why i did not liked this thing, it's just not my type of show. I think it's gross and nonsensical, it looks like the type of thing that sex addictedI had to create an account here to do justice and give this bad show the low score it deserves, i am not a tv critic, just a regular guy giving my humble opinion, so i don't have to elaborate a super elegant argumment in order to justify why i did not liked this thing, it's just not my type of show. I think it's gross and nonsensical, it looks like the type of thing that sex addicted people with race fetish would watch while they please themselfs LOL...… Expand
  20. Whanny
    Feb 22, 2021
    3
    Trashy show. I heard about how it had more views than Stranger Things. Went into it with no idea what it was about. Well it isn't entertaining or intelligent. Just trashy. Maybe some teenage girls might like it. I'm a middle age man and definitely wasn't for me. Pretty good costume and style.
  21. 67bip
    Jul 17, 2021
    0
    Not historically accurate and an all-around terrible show. More historical fantasy from the religion of Woke.
  22. jessicafbitten
    Jun 6, 2021
    1
    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, always has been, and shall always be, celtic and anglo-saxon people are the indigenous population of thatSo 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
  23. jkaybarnes
    Jul 27, 2021
    0
    ...And woke culture is just getting crazier and crazier! Netflix must think everyone will just accept any garbage they make hahaha thank God people can still think by their own. "Never get too open minded, your brain might fall out!" This saying never gets old.
  24. EllaFahim
    Sep 6, 2021
    0
    This was probably the worst tv show i have ever watched in my entire life
    Horrendous
  25. Ryan_dallas
    May 19, 2023
    0
    Again woke agenda pushed on a time where it obviously didn't exist destroys the immersion and leaves us with something that probably 10% of people will celebrate (LGBT+Feminists)
  26. tristanfurlan
    Jan 16, 2021
    1
    Every time someone tells me that there is no racism against white people, I'll just show an episode of this TV series.
  27. sittingbullfrog
    Jan 17, 2021
    0
    the vaunted diversity of the show doesn't extend to the writers room where 7 of the 9 writers are middle aged or geriatric whites. not that the show is really all that diverse anyhow with the unfortunate exclusion of transsexuals or the differently abled
  28. jarrodbenson
    Feb 5, 2021
    0
    Dont even waste your time watching a single ep of this, its just woke garbage, if you find forced diversity cringe, this show is like poison for you LOL...
  29. deanmorris
    Nov 24, 2021
    0
    A show for braindead idiots. Netflix should listen to people who are real fans of movies and TV...
  30. metacritiqueur
    Feb 8, 2021
    0
    Another crap from netflix Wokemachine. Cultural appropriation is very high in this one.
  31. vlsnbelc
    Dec 26, 2020
    10
    The story is romantic and funny. The fact that this is a diverse cast may be unsettling to some but I found it very believable and the cast is fantastic.
  32. j1train
    Dec 30, 2020
    8
    Bunch of racists bringing down the score. This is a crowd-pleaser where "historical accuracy" is irrelevant. Don't take it so seriously. It's a Shonda Rhimes show.
  33. Sxphia123
    Dec 28, 2020
    10
    A hundred percent Jane Austen meets Gossip Girl, Such a brilliant series, binged it with in 2 days. Julia Andrews does a brilliant job as the voice of Lady Whistledown. The acting is well done and is well casted. Overall I really eye catching, binge-worthy show, cannot wait for the next series
  34. halboro
    Dec 29, 2020
    10
    Highly enjoyable series. It’s meant to be fluffy entertainment and that’s exactly what it is. The casting was impeccable, the production was pretty, the story was fun and I was never bored.
  35. rafaellafig
    Dec 26, 2020
    10
    Com uma trama intrigante e personagens carismáticos, Bridgerton nos prende desde o princípio. A série é repleta de cenas emocionantes, engraçadas e espirituosas que nos faz questionar como situações vividas há 200 anos atrás ainda estão fortemente enraizadas na sociedade atual.
    E isso tudo, ao som de uma trilha sonora impecável.
  36. Ruh
    Dec 29, 2020
    9
    A great Christmas Day watch, especially with the 2020 we have had!
    Fun, doesn't take it self too seriously, beautiful costumes and a great cast.
  37. ajshadowcat
    Mar 2, 2021
    10
    Escapism at its finest. And superb cast too. I cannot wait for Season 2. Other people's closed minded opinions here don't bother me.
  38. Kellysnd
    Dec 27, 2020
    10
    Série maravilhosa
    divertida
    alegra
    temas importantes
    e com uma trilha sonora deliciosa
  39. gabrismelo
    Dec 27, 2020
    10
    Série incrível, roteiro maravilhoso, fotografia impecável e uma trilha sonora gostosa.
  40. sarahverity
    Dec 26, 2020
    5
    I cried so much and clapped my hands and squealed like a little child watching this!
  41. Dobby
    Jan 5, 2021
    10
    Shonda Rhimes has another hit on her hands. I was pleasantly surprised by the series, and ended up binge-watching it in less than 2 days. The storyline is entertaining and the cast is very charismatic. I didn't read the series but I'm looking forward to future seasons featuring the other Bridgerton siblings . Regé-Jean Page, who was cast as the duke was the standout in this series, and heShonda Rhimes has another hit on her hands. I was pleasantly surprised by the series, and ended up binge-watching it in less than 2 days. The storyline is entertaining and the cast is very charismatic. I didn't read the series but I'm looking forward to future seasons featuring the other Bridgerton siblings . Regé-Jean Page, who was cast as the duke was the standout in this series, and he had excellent chemistry with his co-star Phoebe Dynevor. Most of the negative 0 point reviews are from people who are angry with the diverse casting (and probably did not even watch the series), so if you don't have problem with this, then you will love this series.… Expand
  42. Oroblah
    Jan 1, 2021
    10
    Loved it. And I’m not usually a fan of historical romance/drama. This was just so funny, entertaining and just plain enjoyable. It doesn’t hurt that the leads have great chemistry. Ignore the 1 star reviews. Most are just objecting to the people of color in the film. It’s hard to actually watch this and not love it.
  43. Moviestome
    Jan 1, 2021
    10
    Incredible! I Love It The narrative, the script and the direction won my attention, the vibrant colors In The screen captivate the viewer to continue marveling at this explosion of perfection
  44. dasha1097
    Jan 7, 2021
    10
    If you favor Gossip Girl, that would be just it in another decade!! Highly recommend!
  45. Anaf108
    Mar 29, 2021
    10
    Duque gostoso e isso já é o suficiente.
    Mas além disso é uma série divertida.
  46. LISOCHIKOTOSA
    Feb 9, 2021
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The series is pretty epic. It flips the script on British history, if you are looking for historical accuracy this is not for you. The salacious spectacle, the grand costumes, the suspense over the narrator the good looking and talented cast all make for a fun and memorable. Ultimately, i think the series leans far too much on sex. i don't think there is anything wrong with a sex scene but it just feels like there are too many of them here. Perhaps to emphasize the scandalous nature of it all??, i don't know but sex is definitely used as a crutch. Still, it is a sight to see… Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#70 Best TV Season of 2020
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#9 Most Discussed TV Season of 2020
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#86 Most Shared TV Season of 2020

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 34 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 34
  3. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Lucy Mangan
    Jan 30, 2026
    60
    Show every sign of having watched one too many episodes of Downton Abbey. ... I felt by the end of the first episode it had delighted me with its presence long enough, and yet … and yet … Was there not, after all, room for just one more? And, perhaps, another after that?
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  2. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Sarah Hughes
    Jan 30, 2026
    80
    This is a series which wears its charms on its sleeve from the start and thus has no shame about its desire to beguile and bewitch viewers. It succeeds thanks to creator Chris Van Dusen’s understanding of the material and some smart, spritely scripts from a young female-led writing room.
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  3. ABC News
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    May 24, 2021
    80
    This new Shondaland smash, her first for Netflix, is set in 1813 London and features color-blind casting, a mega-sexy star in Rege-Jean Page and enough ravishing romance to take your mind off the latest Covid surge. Get ready to swoon.
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