We’re not sure if an official announcement confirming a second season of Netflix’s hotly devoured period drama Bridgerton really qualifies as good gossip. For some of us, our Twitter timelines have essentially devolved into steady streams of Simon Basset (Regé-Jean Page) thirst and, as of Wednesday, well-curated Bernie Sanders memes. (Well, that’s certainly the case for this writer, at least.) Also, the streaming platform has been teasing the news for days. But the perceived obviousness of Netflix maybe wanting to hold onto their Regency-era golden goose a little while longer hasn’t precluded Lady Whistledown (voiced by Julie Andrews) from announcing the renewal with all the pageantry you’d expect from the Shondaland hit.
“The ton are abuzz with the latest gossip, and so it is my honor to impart to you: Bridgerton shall officially return for a second season,” Netflix’s announcement reads. “I do hope you stored a bottle of ratafia for this most delightful occasion.”
The announcement goes on to confirm that production will begin this spring and that season two’s focus will land squarely on Lord Anthony Bridgerton, played by Jonathan Bailey. The entire cast is confirmed to return for the next round of bodice-ripping and societal faux pas with creator Chris Van Dusan continuing to lead the way.
Adapted from a series of novels by Julia Quinn, Bridgerton has remained one of Netflix’s most streamed properties since its Christmas debut. According to The A.V. Club’s series review by Gwen Ihnat Lady Whistledown herself: “Bridgerton has a soapy, compelling way about it. Although I think highly of myself (for obvious reasons), I would never deign to consider my writings great literature, and I doubt that the keepers of Bridgerton view their stories that way either. Nevertheless, people run toward my creative outputs, and I suspect that viewers of Bridgerton will likely do the same.”
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I’ll be in my bunk I shall withdraw posthaste to my bedchamber.
This show pisses me off and I don’t know why. I aggressively hate it
That’s a shame because it thinks about you while it’s touching itself. (I actually loved the show for it’s sets, costumes and some of the acting, but the what-were-you-thinking-of-when-you-touched-yourself part was the only part I HAAAAATED.)
I think that’s why I don’t like it lol. I get what it’s going for, but it’s just so aggressive in doing it.
This show is a bit fun, but also kind of aggressively dumb. I know this can’t be the case, but it feels like it was written by stupid people.
It knows exactly what it is and what it wants to be. The premise of half the show is ludicrously stupid (the ‘I got revenge on my dad by swearing to never heir a child’ subplot), but it knows full well that the majority of the viewers aren’t in it for the plot.
I knew it would be a hot mess from the first scene, where they’re doing that whole trope of corset tightening standing in for “old timey sexism was bad”, but for the entirely wrong period of history. They’re wearing empire waisted dresses for fuck’s sake.
You can say that about a lot of Netflix shows. Most Netflix shows. I don’t think they’re hiring particularly stupid writers but I do think they rush the scripts. I also bet they’re told to go for dialog that’s easy to dub in a dozen languages.
More like it was written by smart people trying to make money off of dumb people who love to watch junk like this. This show is very much “Downton Abbey/Period shows for Dummies! -now with more T&A!”
i think the sound mixers might have been stupid people. or i’m just a stupid person.this is the only show i’ve streamed where the dialogue would constantly switch from the center channel to my surround speakers and back. very annoying!
Perfect for a nation of idiots.
So long as we get more fuck scenes, I’m happy. HBO has been letting me down lately.
HBO was never the same after they fired their CEO of Tits.(yes, I know, I need to let the old AVC memes go)
(whispers in Farnum voice) Titty-licker!
Did you try Industry? That was better than I expected it to be and had some classic HBO gratuitousness.
Oh heck yeah, I’ll look into it.
I wonder if we’ll see much more of Lord and Lady NC-17 next season?
The first few episodes were entertaining enough, but the back half of the season was just the two leads being mad at each other over dumb misunderstandings or dumb things they could’ve resolved with a 5 minute conversation.
Ebert called that “the idiot plot” years ago but we keep seeing it. Sigh.
Ummm…are we gonna mention the sexual assault or are we just pretending it’s a cute plot device? C’mon, if the gender of the main characters was reversed this would not have gone without comment.
I love the architecture, costumes, and the orchestral arrangements of modern songs. My boyfriend and I watched together, thinking it would be a low-stress, sexy show and were bummed it turned out to be a regency soap opera with a big budget. We got mid-way through episode 4 and I got so mad at the plot and we’re out.I was so annoyed with everything that happened after Daphne took her necklace off. Up until then I could do “willing suspension of disbelief,” but there is no way someone like her would’ve risked her status by talking with the Duke alone, let alone go into the garden. And the Duke’s big secret why he couldn’t marry her? There’s no good reason why it was a secret! It’s like a soap with the writer’s room making things up for the next day’s shoot without planning the plot for the long term.
My boyfriend said it was his favorite episode because now he doesn’t have to watch it anymore.
The real problem with this show, to me, was that the writers didn’t seem to grasp the level of churning froth that the show should have been plowing through. I’m talking two, maybe three nonsensically sleezy plotlines per hour of show. As it was, the main Daphne/Simon plot just repeated the same beats over and over, with varying levels of wetness and idiocy. Eloise kept acting like she was going to be a detective but then never did anything but clutch her notebook. The Featheringtons were the only good characters, but Polly Walker deserved like 75% more screentime of being spiteful to people.Basically what I’m saying is that what it really needed to be was the CW’s Reign, but it wasn’t. Alas.