It’s hard not to think about
Downton Abbey when watching
Both are splendid melodramas in quite magnificent costumery and sumptuous locations.
Bridgerton is based on novels by US author Julia Quinn, set in the high society of Regency England, 1813. That’s also the year in which
Pride & Prejudice was published, and the influences are easy to see in a world where keeping up appearances must be maintained at all costs.
Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) is the central character, the pretty but unmarried eldest daughter of wealthy widow Lady Violet (Ruth Gemmell).
Yet as our occasional narrator -more on her shortly- warns us, “The brighter a lady shines the faster she may burn.”
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