Quickie Review: Bridgerton

[Kevin M.]

Pretty Little Liars meets a bad (unintentional) parody of a Jane Austin novel, only with fewer white people because Shonda Rhimes created it. 

My wife enjoyed it and binge-watched it in a week. I was out after one and a half episodes. 

On the Netflix 

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Doug Eastick]

I made it through the whole thing. 3 of us started it the morning of the 25th.  We were done by 28th.

It was kinda like bubble gum.

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[Adam Bowie]

I didn't quite make it to the end of the first episode despite liking some of the actors in it (Polly Walker and Ben Miller).

I mostly enjoyed that the thing is set in London but is filmed in Bath where I went to university and lived for several years. A genuinely beautiful Georgian city, they shot in all the obvious places which amused me quite a bit and meant I was looking at it thinking, oh there's a nice pub there, or that there's a good bookshop right where the camera must be set up.

A big budget for basically a soap opera. Mind you, so was Downton, but this has even more soap powder sprinkled on it.

Bath is better served as a location in the otherwise distinctly underwhelming McDonald and Dobbs which has great actors, a great setting and a terrible script. No idea why John Dickerson of 60 Minutes is a fan, but he's spoken about on the Slate Political Gabfest podcast on more than one occasion!

Adam

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[David Risner]

My wife and her mother watched it in one day. They enjoyed it quite a bit, but they are fans of romance novels and movies. My mother-in-law is also into “historical” fiction. 

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