Netflix’s ‘Bridgerton’ is the Modern World Dressed up in Regency-Era Clothes 5:15 pm ‘Bridgerton’ reimagines Britain’s Regency era where British high society can include black families and the norms and mores carry with it a contemporary charge and sensibility.
Based on Julia Quinn’s best selling novels, the Shonda Rhimes’ produced Netflix series, ‘
Bridgerton,’ created by Chris Van Dusen, immediately struck me in the same way as Ryan Murphy’s ‘Hollywood.’ The setting and the imagery is familiar but everything feels different. There is an obvious attempt to reinvision these stories to address prevalent themes that are relevant today.