![]() ![]() It had its promised ‘modern twists’, which included colour-blind casting, which is excellent as it annoys people (especially white ones who still want to hang on to everything and have no imagination), and a gay scene and Beautiful Daphne learning about herself down there and so much (orgasmic) sex in episode six, The Rutting Episode, I rather longed to be a newly married duchess myself.Īm I too old? Will I never do it on library steps? Was it meant to seem real? Hard to know how seriously this took itself. ![]() The frocks, the jewels, the (obviously fake) floristry! But it wasn’t just the floristry. This eight-parter cost an absolute bomb, and it’s certainly delicious on the eye. I did want to know what happened next, even if it was so predictable the fact is: I already knew. Still have to marry me, though.’Īnd that is, essentially, the plot of Netflix’s much anticipated Regency drama, Bridgerton, based on the bestselling novels by American writer Julia Quinn, and in normal circumstances one might shrug and sniffily say: Ms Quinn is no Ms Austen, is she?Īnd: what is this soapy Mills & Boon froth? And: can Hot Simon do anything other than smoulder? But with our Christmases in tatters and nowhere to go, it did prove quite seductive. Am I not wearing it rakishly?’ ‘But Hot Simon, I will help you overcome your demons!’ ‘For the 785th time, I cannot marry you, Daff, but I can tell you how to pleasure yourself down there.’ ‘I can not because of the vow I made to my father and because I used to stutter! And I’m a rake! They meet at a ball, and banter, but he is determined never to settle down, so they come to an arrangement: they’ll pretend to be courting so that women will stop throwing themselves at him – Hot Simon is so Hot, you see – while she’ll increase her value on the marriage market. She is Lady Daphne Bridgerton, the beautiful daughter of a viscount who is bored by her conventional suitors but longs for marriage and children. He is Simon Henry Arthur Fitzranulph Basset, Earl Clyvedon, Duke of Hastings or, for short, and as he quickly became known in this house: ‘Hot Simon’.
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