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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Aimless ponderings inspired by Netflix’s Bridgerton
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