“Bridgerton”–“Downton Abbey” Meets “Pride and Prejudice”
Produced by Shonda Rhimes as her first Netflix Original debut, Bridgerton is based on a series of best-selling historical romance novels by Julia Quinn. Set in the Regency era, at the height of London’s aristocratic society, Bridgerton tracks the lives and loves of the sprawling Bridgerton clan.
Bridgerton is an amalgamation –part Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and part class snobbery (Downton Abbey).– Queen Charlotte (played with astringent haughtiness by Gilda Rosheuvel) is black. So too is the highly sought after Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page)....