“Sharp-witted, sexy but never sentimental”, Netflix’s new regency romance, Bridgerton, is just the kind of “bingeable” television we need right now, said Sarah Hughes in The Daily Telegraph.
Adapted from Julia Quinn’s bestselling novels, it centres on an aristocratic family of eight children – the Bridgertons – as they negotiate the “treacherous waters” of the London season. It’s like Jane Austen, then, but with less concern for “the (often bitter) realities of life”.
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