Bridgerton is a Fan Fiction About Today

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The fact that Penelope and Eloise are over 30 and playing believable 17 year olds blows my mind.

I felt bad for the prince. The poor guy wanted the same things as Daphne and was already well adjusted but she went with the guy who didn't communicate and couldn't express his emotions. Glad it worked out on the show and all but in real life I doubt it would have.

I wouldn’t say that marriage was a woman’s cunning obsession. Marriage was painted as the ONLY respectable choice for women, of all classes. And while society painted marriage as for the woman’s advantage it was actually not beneficial for women at all in those times. A husband could treat you as he liked and there were no laws to protect you. Any money that your parents left you became his to use as he wanted and you were dependent on him for clothes, a roof over your head etc. If you had children, they were his and he could take them from you and banish you if he liked. Yet, marriage was supposed to be the only thing a woman was to want!

“Problematic Ways?” That was rape, unacceptable

It’s kind of disappointing how the show glossed over the male rape that took place in episode 6. Felt really uncomfortable watching it and the plot and tone barely addressed it.

What everyone forgets is nothing is new. How we act now with social media etc is how we've always acted, it's the method not people that have changed.

“The brighter a lady shines, the faster she may burn," Lady Whistledown

I found the shows attempt to deal with race to be problematic. They should have kept it a color blind fantasy. When they tried to explain the racial element it just seemed shallow and simplistic and I just ignored it so that I could maintain the illusion.

On the subject of racism, The Take missed the part where only light-skinned women of color are in positions of power or perused romantically.

Oh my god, it IS a fanfic. Totally reads like one. Now I see why this show feels like such a guilty pleasure lol

This show has a complicated relationship with diversity and racism. It's like Schrodinger's cat - it exists and also doesn't exist at the same time. They should really pick a narrative soon. Also, Why is the definition of diversity narrowed down to having a mix of white and black characters? where are asian and hispanic characters?

this 'royal marriage solves racism' thing reminds me of notorious Kendal Jenner's pepsi commercial....

This show is just a wattpad fanfiction, with a historical context, beautiful actors and actress, a lot of sex and without the cringing bad writing (even though they really did an awful job in some scene) That why people love it, I don't blame them because I like watching it but it's not a incredible, well written, worthy of a price show just a good show

I like some of the points made but I’ll have to disagree on the the Dukes handling of his trauma and how the show treats it “he should just get over it”. I think it’s unfair to say that his trauma is ridiculous. Most of the time when people are abused they’re development gets stuck in the cycle of being under developed. But in the that time with no counseling or recognizing of mental health it’s not far fetch he didn’t have any resources to deal with the trauma. I think the weakness and flaws of the men have also to do with society’s expeditions for men to be providers and strong all the time which is unrealistic. This drives men to break down and often cause trauma as well. And no one is there to comfort them as their feelings are often invalidated as seen as how the show and the view of this video treats it.

I couldn’t watch it past that ridiculous “tight lacing” scene. You cannot physically tight lace regency stays. It can’t be done. Also, nobody is stupid enough to wear stays or corsets on their bare skin. I feel for the poor wardrobe people who had to wash them.

Jane Austen + Gossip girl + 21st century pop + The most attractive humans to ever walk on earth = Bridgerton

A little disappointed they didn’t address the rape scene and called it “problematic sexual dynamics”

Daphne choosing Simon over the Prince didn't seem brave to me but rather foolish and irresponsible. Marrying into a royal family would have improved the potential of matches for all 3 of her sisters and would secure her family's financial and societal status. Furthermore, I don't buy that what she had with Simon was love, at least not in the beginning, but merely strong chemistry. The Prince was kind, respectful and generous which are much better indicators of the potential for a healthy romantic relationship than witty reparté and lustful stares. As for diversity, besides the obvious fact that white people are still the majority and that Black people are the only people of colour who are represented in any capacity... There is the glaring colourism that overshadows any representation of Black people. Simon, the handsome Duke is a very light-skinned Black man, his mother who dies after giving birth to him is also very light-skinned and portrayed by a mixed-race actress. Simon's abusive & neglectful father is a Black man, and the DARKEST person on the show complexion-wise. The Queen is portrayed by a mixed-race light-skinned actress. Marina Thompson lauded as a great beauty is also a light-skinned mixed-race woman who tries to entrap a white man. Madame Delacroix, the seamstress with a phoney French background is another biracial woman. Will Mondrich, the Duke's boxer friend is a dark-skinned man in a violent profession, married to a light-skinned possibly mixed-race woman...The only Black woman on the show with a speaking role who does not appear to be mixed-race is Lady Danbury, who has no love interest and is more preoccupied with Simon's life than her own... It is safer to say that the show does a good job of representing mixed-race and/or light-skinned people than to say it provides representation for Black people. If anything, this show is a prime example of colourism and the entertainment industry's preference for casting biracial/mixed-race people instead of monoracial dark-skinned Black people. TLDR: The "diversity" is just the same old recycled colourism we have been fed for centuries.

I can't believe The Take talked about a very explicit male r*pe scene calling it "problematic sexual dynamics".