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ColliderApr 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story delivers a beautiful, self-contained love story that champions relationships both romantic and platonic built on a foundation of trust and connection, while never forgetting to keep the central romance — the diamond of this standalone season — at the heart where it belongs.
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Apr 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
A rare gem among the prequel set. ... Queen Charlotte is not just superficially delightful, but indeed, notably attentive to the logic of its narrative world. It is, one nearly quails to suggest, quite thoughtful about its position as the wellspring of this imaginative yarn. So far from empty nothingness, Queen Charlotte makes an effort to embrace precisely those qualities its fatuous forebears so fervently sought to avoid.
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May 16, 2023
Season 1 Review:
There’s a distinct Shonda-ness to the dialogue, which recalls “Scandal” ’s snippy banter and florid, time-stopping monologues, as well as that series’ obsession with optics. Who needs the glowing fairy lights of “Bridgerton” when this more world-weary spectacle boasts so many confident fingerprints? ... Pull up a chair.
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May 5, 2023
May 4, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Obviously, if you’re not a fan of “Bridgerton,” you have no business here. “Queen Charlotte” has the same gorgeous gardens, the same string covers of pop songs, the same buoyant tone, and the same central theme: the search for love. It’s a spinoff, yes, but it’s a good one.
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The GuardianMay 4, 2023
RogerEbert.comMay 4, 2023
Season 1 Review:
"Queen Charlotte" is fun and bawdy, offering more than the sometimes-questionable pleasures of “Bridgerton” seasons past. It gives us more than gossip (the Lady Whistledown voiceover is there still, courtesy of Julie Andrews) and delivers on the “great love story” it promised between Queen Charlotte and King Charles.
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May 3, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Inquiring minds will be appeased by the chemistry between Amarteifio and Mylchreest, built through a more interesting conflict than the typical will-they-won’t-they. ... In its clear understanding of what makes “Bridgerton” work, and where it can improve, “Queen Charlotte” feels organic rather than cynical.
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May 3, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Toss in the requisite jewel-encrusted silks, Vitamin String Quartet pop covers and a healthy sense of humor about the sillier extravagances of the ruling class, and Queen Charlotte manages to replicate the same giddy pleasures of its predecessor. And it does all this without leaning on the illusion of everlasting matrimonial bliss.
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May 3, 2023
Season 1 Review:
She [Shonda Rhimes] has written a story that uncannily echoes the current-day cruelties and outrages of the British Royals, a subtext valentine to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. She writes libidinous episodes that manage to make monogamy seem adorable. She makes us cry in the end.
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Apr 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story finds room to tell more complex tales of courtship, marriage, and forbidden love than the core series does. It’s the soapier aspect of Queen Charlotte that I found the most interesting, even if it took a while for all the pieces of the drama to fall into place.
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May 3, 2023
May 2, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The fate of Charlotte and George, as most know, has its poignant qualities, but if the protracted scenes of eating, dressing, staring at the moon and rutting in the bedrooms had been rendered a bit more concisely, "Queen Charlotte" would not seem quite as overlong as its six episodes do.
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The Daily BeastApr 27, 2023
Season 1 Review:
If you watched Bridgerton for the steamy scenes, Queen Charlotte will likely satisfy that desire, if only in its first three episodes. But those yearning for a more sweeping romance will be disappointed by this spinoff. Queen Charlotte’s most impressive feat is giving a stronger definition to an eccentric character from the main series.
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May 4, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The issues of race and inheritance only bog the series down with every mention — giving few answers and leaving in their wake massive questions about Bridgerton’s world. With only six episodes, there’s still plenty of glitz and glam that longtime Bridgerton fans will cling to. But by centering serious issues without handling any of them deftly, Queen Charlotte’s final result paints a pretty picture, just not one you want to look at for too long.
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iApr 27, 2023
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