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If you can't get enough of Pride and Prejudice, then Bridgerton is the show for you!

First impressions aren't always correct, that love and respect are the key to a happy marriage, and that inflexible gender roles are unfairly limiting.

By Julia LindsayPublished 3 years ago 5 min read
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“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

If your a lover of a simpler time, A time of green grass and cobblestone paths leading up to high mountain grasses, overlooking craggy cliffs and a far below weary seashore. You love the look of petticoats and linen dresses of the palest pastel colors, afoot with petticoats and silk underpinnings and long hair piled like ringlets upon a pretty head.

You love a turbulent love story, wrought with twists and turns and more drama than your heart can handle.

If Pride and Prejudice sweeps you away, you adore Darcy with his arrogant glance, An aristocratic aloofness that hides a deep rooted loneliness behind pale green eyes. Elizabeth Bennet with her own headstrong ways, A sharp intellect mixed with a soul searing desire for unabashed love but her own stubbornness gets in her way.

Pride and Prejudice follows the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. They must overcome the sins of pride and prejudice in order to fall in love and marry.

But the happy road to marriage is not ever a simple jaunt but instead sets the viewer up for one sizzling slow burn of passion and heart shattering pain.

In Pride and Prejudice a passion grows out of gross misunderstandings and pre judgements.

I personally love the Keira Knightly as the free willed Elizabeth, a quick witted sharp thinking girl of the times.

She is at first unable to see who Darcy truly is but Her realization of Darcy's essential goodness eventually triumphs over her initial prejudice against him. Hauntingly pretty Keira Knightley, Her swan like features and quick reactions make her the perfect ELizabeth, One nevers grows tired of staring into the depths of her brown eyes while she wanders the moors during the first rays of light. Whereas Matthew Macfadyen plays a slow burn Darcy a perfect counterpart to Knightleys ELizabeth.

You know he is a goner for her ,in his eyes .

In this adaptation the eyes capture what words cannot.

This my favorite film adaption of the literary classic and if your in the mood to be swept into a slower, more romantic time,

I highly recommend this visual adventure! It is my absolute favorite film adaptation of the Beloved book!

If your a lover of Pride and Prejudice Then Bridgerton will certainly ignite your passionate nature.

Bridgerton is the story of the courtship and marriage of Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Bassett, the dashing Duke of Hastings, and the impact of their relationship on the family, friends, gossip mongers and well-wishers that swirl around them.

The show is based on Julia Quinn's Bridgerton book series.

Whereas Bridgerton is an astounding pure visual delight. The ladies float across the screen in pastel colors of violet and pale cream with ribbons of velvet green these beautiful otherworldly ladies of the day have names like Daphne, Emma, Mirena, Eloise and Hyacinth.

The stages are so gorgeous it is akin to seeing beautiful baroque paintings come to life. I have never seen a more visually beautiful series, Each screen shot is a amazing delight of fabric and floral and beautiful ladies in various pastel dresses and cream colored horses with flower strewn manes.

I can guarantee the set designers of this show will win converted awards, Oscar anyone?

“I was like a kid in a sweet shop,” says production designer Will Hughes-Jones of getting to work on Shondaland’s epic Netflix series, Bridgerton. Hughes-Jones — who has designed dozens of period piece sets, including Starz’s The Spanish Princess and The White Princess, Focus Features’ Jane Eyre and TNT’s The Alienist — was immediately attracted to the Shondaland show because it was different than any period project he’d seen before

“For a designer,” he says, “what’s not to like about creating a heightened pastiche of the Regency world?”

Though the acting is somewhat cringeworthy, but overall the experience is breathtaking to watch and an absolutely fun escape from reality for a while, especially an escape of the Corvid nightmare.

One of the most fascinating aspects of Bridgerton is the equality of the races. I find this lovely and wonderful to watch, almost as a learning curve how we all should of treated each other throughout the ages and should follow this adaption of how to behave.

Ironically Queen Charlotte of Bridgerton actually is based on a real Queen.

Charlotte's great-great-great-great-granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II—reportedly told the Boston Globe of Queen Charlotte's potential mixed-race heritage, "This has been rumored for years and years. It is a matter of history, and frankly, we've got far more important things to talk about.

Adjoa Andoh, a Ghanian-British actress who plays Lady Danbury in Bridgerton, says of the queen's ancestry in New African, “Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III, was the descendant of an African woman and Alphonso III of Portugal. She was mixed-race.

But as any good Romantic tale of this time period the goal of any lovely young lady and her family was for her to marry up in class. So nothing's changed in that arena. And this dramatic series doesn't fail to delight with its strange twist and turns, everything from a all an out pistol battle to a strange you can't have my baby or all is ruined plot twist.

Some of the drama was so over the top to my logical mind that I found myself cringing with hands over eyes still watching the strange soft porn sex scenes and terrible acting. But where the acting and storyline went way south the show prevailed again in it's absolute visual delight and wonderful race relations!

The only time race is even looked upon is during Episode 4, Is when Simon Bassett , is reminded by his surrogate mother that there were once two separate societies divided by color until the king fell in love with Queen Charlotte, a Black woman.

I cheered to see this lovely mixed race aristocratic couple finally marry as I had my variable doubts that that would even happen.

Bridgerton is a cream puff delight to the eyes, a banquet to all senses, a complete escape for the terror of modern life and you too will be transported into a happier, healthier past ,a more beautiful past filled with lilacs and roses and hydrangea bushes that fill each scene with a variable bouquet to alter and heighten your senses into a visual feast unseen in Basic cable tv mini series, If your a lover of beauty and all things beautiful Bridgerton does not disappoint.

If your heart searches for a deep emotional actress who can steal your heart with just a laugh, Keira Knightley's rendition of Elizabeth is certainly Worth a Watch. Her honesty, virtue, and lively wit enable her to rise above the nonsense and bad behavior that pervade her class-bound and often spiteful society. Keira Knightley is one of those intense actresses who can shatter your heart with just a glance and break your heart into a thousand pieces and just when all hope is gone she can send you soaring into the bounty of undying love.

If you Love Pride and Prejudice ,Bridgerton is your New feast of earthly delights.

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Julia Lindsay

I am a hard rock musician. filmmaker and writer. I am an Endangered Species Advocate and Environmentalist.

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