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Aimless ponderings inspired by Netflix’s Bridgerton

22 Feb
The title card for the Netflix show _Bridgerton_, consisting on a flowering tree (possibly a pink-flowering dogwood) in the foreground, with the tops of a few other trees behind it, and a blue sky with a few clouds and the sun peeking just on the top right edge of the image. The word "Bridgerton" is laid in white font, all caps, across it.

For those who may not know, the tl:dr is this: back in 2018, Shonda Rhimes, a USian producer of several very successful shows, bought the rights to adapt Julia Quinn’s very white genre romance Bridgertons book series (see footnote 1). Three series within that universe have been released by Netflix since, with a fourth coming out later this summer.

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