I was absolutely longing to knock their heads together. Balls where you dance, I should have said.) The cast do their best with the material and there are some excellent names, with Ruth Gemmell playing Daphne’s mother and Polly Walker as scheming Lady Featherington, with her own three daughters to marry off.īut every character is one-note, including Hot Simon (Regé-Jean Page), an emotionally unavailable brooder with a backstory that might have been bought from, so perfunctory did it seem, and Beautiful Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor), who was also given to moping. This hit all the beats for a soapy period romp, with subplots aplenty and misunderstandings and eavesdroppings and intercepted letters and social climbers and hidden debts, and so many balls that I ended up with ball fatigue. It had its promised ‘modern twists’, which included colour-blind casting, which is excellent as it annoys people (especially white ones who still want to hang on to everything and have no imagination), and a gay scene and Beautiful Daphne learning about herself down there and so much (orgasmic) sex in episode six, The Rutting Episode, I rather longed to be a newly married duchess myself.Īm I too old? Will I never do it on library steps? Was it meant to seem real? Hard to know how seriously this took itself. The frocks, the jewels, the (obviously fake) floristry! But it wasn’t just the floristry. This eight-parter cost an absolute bomb, and it’s certainly delicious on the eye. I did want to know what happened next, even if it was so predictable the fact is: I already knew. Still have to marry me, though.’Īnd that is, essentially, the plot of Netflix’s much anticipated Regency drama, Bridgerton, based on the bestselling novels by American writer Julia Quinn, and in normal circumstances one might shrug and sniffily say: Ms Quinn is no Ms Austen, is she?Īnd: what is this soapy Mills & Boon froth? And: can Hot Simon do anything other than smoulder? But with our Christmases in tatters and nowhere to go, it did prove quite seductive. Am I not wearing it rakishly?’ ‘But Hot Simon, I will help you overcome your demons!’ ‘For the 785th time, I cannot marry you, Daff, but I can tell you how to pleasure yourself down there.’ ‘I can not because of the vow I made to my father and because I used to stutter! And I’m a rake! They meet at a ball, and banter, but he is determined never to settle down, so they come to an arrangement: they’ll pretend to be courting so that women will stop throwing themselves at him – Hot Simon is so Hot, you see – while she’ll increase her value on the marriage market. She is Lady Daphne Bridgerton, the beautiful daughter of a viscount who is bored by her conventional suitors but longs for marriage and children. The last time we see her, she’s off to reluctantly start her new life with Sir Phillip Crane.He is Simon Henry Arthur Fitzranulph Basset, Earl Clyvedon, Duke of Hastings or, for short, and as he quickly became known in this house: ‘Hot Simon’. Marina receives a proposal from George’s brother in the name of honor rather than love. Featherington made her believe, but because he died. She eventually learns that George stopped responding not because he rejected her, as Mrs. When that fails, she unsuccessfully attempts to end the pregnancy. When he stops responding to her letters, Marina is forced to find a hasty match to save her reputation. On Bridgerton, she is a cousin of the Featheringtons who is sent to London despite being in love with a soldier, George Crane, and secretly pregnant with his child. Poor Marina can’t catch a break on the page or the screen. Netflix’s New Show Stars Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler. The Famous “Runaway Train” Music Video “Saved” 21 Kids. Crew Executive’s Star Turn on TVĪmazon’s Hit New Movie Is Being Praised for Its “Radical” Sex Scenes. Why People Are Losing It Over a Former J.
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