I don’t think there’s really much of a love triangle in the Grisha books. The bad guy does kind of court her but her love interest stays pretty much her love interest, as I recall. And it’s about a lot of other stuff more than the romance.
Though no guarantee an adaptation will keep to that, granted.
That actually does look good. Color me interested.
Is that based on some YA series or something? It has that look to it. Set in some fantasy version of 19th Century Europe, yadda yadda.
And the dude who asks “what are you” is the actor from HBO’s Westworld, right? The dark-haired dude (Logan) who was sent off on a horse naked, as I recall.
Yep, and also Billy Russo from Punisher; actor’s name is Ben Barnes
Yep, by Leigh Bardugo. Fantasy Russia, mostly.
Gendal
2052
Haha, I was curious myself and looked it up on goodreads. Turns out I actually read the first book and gave it 2 out of 5. Which I give a lot of books that I rate as ok. This one was closer to being a single star than 2 if I remember correctly. Still, trailer looked Ok.
Surprised that I don’t see more discussion of this show on this thread. We finished Season One and also surprised. I found the first episode annoying but quirky and intriguing, and my wife wanted to keep going, and then by ep 3 I was fully hooked. We finished the season now and wish there was more to watch.
My wife bounced hard off Bridgestone. I don’t get it. But she’s not into regency romances and hates ahistorical anything. She had so many objections to episode 1 that she couldn’t get past it.
You don’t get the show, or you don’t get your wife bouncing off it?
I was surprised to find that it was basically an alternative history. I thought at first it was just colorblind casting, which is fine by me (like Denzel in Much Ado About Nothing). I found the premise a bit hard to believe in historical terms, but the show was good enough that it didn’t really detract from it in any way. If anything, I thought they overdid the sex in the show, but I guess that’s a way to guarantee some audience.
I have since read some criticism of the premise, along the lines of maybe don’t sell young people on the idea that there were a bunch of posh wealthy and aristocratic people of color running around regency England. I get the criticism.
That seems like one big difference between British TV and US TV. They will cast minorities in white roles and not mention it. Here it is a big deal. I guess like Hamilton? (I didn’t watch it).
Nesrie
2059
Hamilton is great. My friends have now a small shot in the dark of actually getting me to go see one of these plays that I saw as stuffy, forced to watch, not at all interesting crap I had to see as a kid.
Bridgerton is so much more than colorblind casting. It’s a romance novel. There be sex. Ladies want that sex in romance books.
I saw a bit. I love these period dramas (like Victoria on Amazon). There were 20 different siblings with names to remember which got overwhelming! I have to pick up Bridgerton again.
I told my sister about the show and she was like, “I saw it twice already.”
Nesrie
2061
Yeah I watch Victoria, and The Crown and did Downton Abbey. Those intrigue me in a historical and drama sense of curiosity but Bridgerton engages on such a higher level. I cannot even explain it. I typically don’t fill my house with TV or movie theme crap, but The Child got one piece and Bridgeton… if they sell wine glasses, just house things aren’t cheap garbage associated with that show… it’s potential look out moment (remember I don’t even really drink wine).
If I had to choose between Bridgerton and the other historical pieces, Bridgerton would win, hands down, not even a close contest. Fortunately, we no longer live where networks are forcing all the good stuff to air during a one hour block, and I can get to them all.
Victoria has a ton of kids. I suspect by the end of that show, I’ll remember like 2 of them because I doubt they will emphasize most of them.
Ooo, this Shadowbone looks neat. Even if Billy Russo, that rat bastard, is in it.
I mean, Victoria basically raised a brood of infiltration agents who successfully took over every royal family in Europe.
Teiman
2064
Unsubed.
I am not chinese, and I am not a teenager. Not in the target market for whatever people they made the shows here.
Nesrie
2065
It really is fascinating chasing around the links of various royal families to that one group. It’s just I rarely feel like I know those people, just her, and Bridgerton, by design, is meant to cover all of them, the whole family.
What is this in reference to?
