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One episode of the Bridgerton prequel is an after-school special about how older women still get horny. And I think that's beautiful

The worldbuilding, both implicit and explicit, of Shonda Rhimes' Bridgerton universe is genuinely one of the most interesting things on television. If I wrote an essay about it I would use Sisko and Kasidy's conversation about Vic's and the Holosuite's fantasy colorblind reenactment of an extremely racist past "period setting" as an epigraph

Bridgerton universe update: Psychosis is treatable with talk therapy, which existed as a practicable modality in 18th-century England

Bridgerton racial politics update: the Province of Freedom went down differently and Sierra Leone is a world-power empire that trades with the British Empire? And Lady Danbury is from alt-history Sierra Leone?

Bridgerton racial politics update: the show heavily implies that if an heir, male, of the body is not born to a child of George and Charlotte, i.e., if the throne does not pass on "in their [interracial] bloodline," real quote, then the Black British nobility will be disenfranchised again

I think Bridgerton: The TV Show (& Expanded Universe) feels like fanfiction because its entire premise is fundamentally an AU of the books on which it is based. And because Shonda Rhimes has that dawg in her

Learning more about the racial politics of the Bridgerton Expanded Universe. There's a Black noble class in Britain but they're...excluded from court, and the aristocracy is...segregated? There's just a parallel Second Estate and never the twain shall meet, because of. Racism

I remember when the Bridgerton episode with nude Nicola Coughlan aired and everyone on Gd's Internet was sharing gifsets and saying "Jesus fucking Christ, I'm gay." At the time I thought they were doing some sort of overcompensatory encomium but now that I've seen it myself. Jesus fucking Christ I'm gay

Oh to be the wealthy indolent second son of a viscount and enter into a throuple with a sexy older widow and a suave patron of the arts with a Fabio haircut

Benedict Bridgerton so afraid of his own latent bisexuality that he runs full tilt out of his MILF girlfriend's house rather than accept a threesome invitation with another man

Halfway through season 3 and Bridgerton has become a strong, consistent soap opera. The first season is nigh unwatchable but seasons 2 and 3 are. Well. I wouldn't call them good per se. But for the genre? Delicious

Cressida's costumes are my favorite on Bridgerton because while the main ensemble cast is dressed in vetements that (at least perfunctorily) gesture toward a Regency silhouette, she's out here serving Effie Trinket for no reason whatsoever

It's so cool how Bridgerton is a television show with multiple reader self-insert characters, which, to be clear, as a category is not at all interchangeable with the cinematic viewer stand-in re: narrative function (those characters are Eloise and Penelope and it's ALSO interesting how they become foils to each other later on)

Nicola Coughlan was not exaggerating. She does have a cracking pair of boobs

Penelope and Colin are fucking in a moving carriage to a non-diegetic Vitamin String Quartet arrangement of "Give Me Everything Tonight" by Pitbull and THIS is what I mean by the absolute postmodern Fanfiction Consciousness of the Bridgerton project