Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Bridgerton,” streaming now on Netflix.
A story driven by emotionally complex relationships, with an added mysterious “whodunnit” element about a gossip columnist spilling high society’s secrets under a pen name, in many ways, feels like it walked right out of the minds of those at Shondaland. But although this story, an eight-episode season of “Bridgerton” on Netflix, is Shondaland’s first scripted project to debut on the streamer, it actually has its roots in Julia Quinn’s nine-book series of novels.
Quinn’s series, which starts with “The Duke and I,” and which also serves as the source material for Shondaland’s “Bridgerton,” is centered on the wealthy and powerful Bridgerton family in Regency England, a time when young women were still presented into society each season in order to be married off. The first season of the...
A story driven by emotionally complex relationships, with an added mysterious “whodunnit” element about a gossip columnist spilling high society’s secrets under a pen name, in many ways, feels like it walked right out of the minds of those at Shondaland. But although this story, an eight-episode season of “Bridgerton” on Netflix, is Shondaland’s first scripted project to debut on the streamer, it actually has its roots in Julia Quinn’s nine-book series of novels.
Quinn’s series, which starts with “The Duke and I,” and which also serves as the source material for Shondaland’s “Bridgerton,” is centered on the wealthy and powerful Bridgerton family in Regency England, a time when young women were still presented into society each season in order to be married off. The first season of the...
- 12/28/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
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