Sex, luxury and gossip: Why can’t we forget ‘The Bridgertons’?

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Bridgertonshe did it again. Nor the mournful absence of the irresistible El Duque (Regé-Jean Page)In this second season dedicated to little August’s home maintenance, the magnificent adaptation has reined in his passion. Julia Quinn’s romance novels. The second most-watched series in Netflix history comes after inaccessiblesquid game, these new and fragrant romances, scandals, intrigues and court gossip have once again become a global phenomenon; and so, almost three weeks after its March 24 premiere, most watched TV series worldwideAccording to the website specializing in digital audiences, FlixPatrol is keeping another global ‘drug’ at bay, like the sultry Spanish drama ‘Elite’, again in its recently aired fifth season.

In this new series of episodes, the stars are no longer the snowy Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) and the happily married Duke after heated encounters and disagreements, as you may well know, unless they’ve spent the last few weeks in a parallel universe. this first appeared during the season. The hero copying the original build is now Daphne’s older brother Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) is caught in an awkward love triangle with Anglo-Indian half-sisters Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley) and Edwina (Charithra Chandran).. The series concludes as a pure ambrosia of seduction armed with a suffocating sexual tension in complex resolution; also stitched with Lady Whistledown’s “closed” voice and sharp pencil, overshadowed by high society gossip and matchmaking scandals.

The ‘Bridgertons’ take the audience to a silky spider web that it is impossible to avoid it. there are often swept the series in one or two day marathons when it melts like sand Even when you know that gluttony and lust are deadly sins, what’s the secret to your incredible addictive capacity to keep you from seeking? Here we are trying to decrypt the keys. an unusual addiction in the panorama of audiovisual fiction. Why can’t we forget the ‘Bridgertons’?

Between the ridiculous and the sublime

Dance at the Bridgerton and Sharma family palace in season two of The Brigdertons.

Shondaland not only was he the producer of Shonda Rhimes (‘Grey’s Anatomy’, ‘Scandal’), he’s already become a style brand. He started his collaboration with Netflix with ‘Los Bridgertons’, but it was marked by his earlier work. Its content is clear: its intrigues oscillate between the ridiculous and the sublime, between vulgar and sophisticatedthrough stories presented, dramas that always connect perfectly with the audience, perhaps as fundamental as it is effective. From there, there is the joy of the game, the distortions in the narrative, the fondness for the game. guilty pleasure.

When it comes to ‘Los Bridgertons’, all these features are the richness of the environment, the brightness of the spaces, an excellent artistic production, an overwhelming and gripping production, appealing characters that avoid clichés, and a soundtrack filled with contemporary pop songs arranged as chamber music. Its protagonists are strong and determined, able to confront the stereotypes of the castrating society in which they live. In addition, desire revolves around unsatisfied desire, frustrated illusions, joyous sexuality and why not, romantic love as a form of salvation at a time when we seem to succumb to cynicism. In short, it’s a hypervitamin cocktail full of irresistible stimuli.

Como un ‘english afternoon tea party’

Lady Danbury (Adjoa Andoh) and Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel) in the second season of ‘The Bridgertons’.

Every episode of ‘The Bridgertons’ is a bacchanal for the sensesa rich ‘English afternoon tea party’ good english patisserie: savory ‘scones’, Queen Victoria’s cupcakes, ‘cupcakes’, Battenberg biscuits, screen-filling ‘custard’ and ‘crumbs’ plain yes and plain, too, swallowed by the characters with the omnipotence naturalness. While the series is a fantasy about Regency London and a court that never existed, it’s probably ‘royal adorationThat irresistible appeal to the history and associations of the British royal family: that exquisite diction, that delicacy, that grace in cut and dress… And also, those magnificent palaces, those gardens of Eden, those private clubs… the scent of leather. Beautiful people on horseback, hunting, playing ‘pall mall’. It is impossible to leave the call: an aesthetic magnet, pure sensory black holeIn the form of an explosion of vibrant colors in 4K.

Intrigues and gossip about the rich

Genevieve (Kathryn Drysdale) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) in season two of ‘The Bridgertons’.

sound on ‘off’ lady whistle (Julie Andrews in the original version) has been the backbone of the series from the first episode of the first season. A way to discover the secrets of a society that looks through the gallery and tries to hide its misery at all costs. But what if they are exposed? What if he dares to challenge the monarchical powers? Lady Whistledown is, in a way, a disruptive element in this space full of intrigues and whispers. A sort of predecessor to Hedda Hopper and the gossip magazines, our ‘Save menewspaper there is no puppet with a head, and indeed, in this case, that’s the actual transcript underneath. Miss CrackenthorpeEnglish columnist of the early eighteenth century. He knows very well what the public needs, some fun to escape our miserable existences through the popular characters of high society where we approach the lower passions. Revealed here is a classic of our time. sharp and illuminating feather while drawing the fates of the characters.

Women got (more) stronger

Claudia Jessie as Eloise Bridgerton in the second season of The Brigdertons.

If it affected in the first season nature of racial diversityAn arcord value has also been added to the present times in this new season, including a black queen of England: female empowerment. Yes Daphne Bridgerton She was a heroine who avoided the patriarchal gaze of her surroundings and constantly questioned what was expected of her. But now with Kate Sharma goes one step further. From her first appearance on horseback at odd hours, she demonstrates that she is above social dictates, something to underline the fact that she is the only woman around traditionally heteropatriarchal who knows how to hunt and is in absolute equality. skills. with their male colleagues. Moreover, We’ll join Eloise Bridgerton’s (Claudia Jessie) awakening, not just sexually, but intellectually.She will begin to explore feminist theories and take a path around the justification of women’s rights, which takes us back to the dawn of the first wave of the movement. Eloise will begin questioning a system that condemns him to marriage and invisibility and Theo (Callam Lynch), a young man who works at a printing house, tries to break free from the shackles of his own status.

This sexual tension

Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley) and Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) in the second season of ‘The Bridgertons’.

This unresolved sexual tension (to the end) becomes one of the founding foundations of this new section group. If you bet on the first season boundless eroticism and joyful lustIn this case it is preferred boil the tension of desire until it becomes unbearable. From their first meeting, Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sharman will play a game of cat and mouse that will last from brushes to sighs to bursting lips to sleepless nights. Endless encounters will sustain a relationship that you will definitely live in. good things keep you waitingBy that, we mean the kiss (and sex) that crowns that endless flirtation that leaves us tired but becomes one of the elements of maximum anticipation throughout eight episodes. When the ‘Bridgertons’ faced the urgency of new technologies, the art of waiting there is also ‘gender attraction’.

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