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Post 01/19/2021 10:20     Subject: Bridgerton: new Netflix series
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Anonymous wrote:I’ve seen a couple reviews that say Marina had more money than her cousins. Did her father know she was pregnant when he sent her to London?


Marina’s father did have more money than the cousins. The father owed Marina’s father money and was paying for Marina to stay with them. Remember Lady Featherington telling her husband that they would not have to be bothered with Marina, but for the fact her husband’s gambling debt and Marina’s father providing money for her stay. I’m doing Marina’s father knew of her pregnancy because Marina did not know until she arrived to the Featherington home. Dad probably just wanted her away from the temptations and wagging tongues.


Explains the surplus of suitors compared to her cousins. More attractive and wealthier.


But didn't Lady Featherington describe Marina as a poor country cousin with a mere four-figure dowry? In episode 1 right before Marina arrives. Now, at the time she didn't know her husband had squandered their entire fortune away. It shows how desperate Lord F was if he borrowed from a "poorer" cousin.

Wow! In a show as simple as this, here is a person that got it right! Lady thought Marina was a poor country cousin, then she learned differently! Yet, so many pps on this thread can't follow this simple storyline? I don't recall this being in the books at all.
No wonder we are reaching more death than in WWII with a virus that you only need a mask to not get and don't go to indoor gathering places!


Well I mean, you have people on here complaining that the cast wasn’t all white.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2021 10:08     Subject: Bridgerton: new Netflix series
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Anonymous wrote:Love the diversity of the cast, too!

I read that Julian Fellows (Downton, Belgravia) defends only casting white people. This shows that a diverse cast in a period piece works!



I disagree. It’s distracting.


I agree. It would have been fine if they just ignored it, but they made a few clumsy attempts to explain it, which just added to the whole surreal nature of the show.


They shouldn't have tried to explain it, but this isn't a show that proports to be realistic in any way. The weather is always perfect, the flowers are always blooming, The colors are bright, the music is contemporary. This is Hamilton as a trashy romance series. The color-blind casting is part of the premise. And I love seeing faces that look like mine not playing maids or slaves.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2021 09:39     Subject: Bridgerton: new Netflix series
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Anonymous wrote:Love the diversity of the cast, too!

I read that Julian Fellows (Downton, Belgravia) defends only casting white people. This shows that a diverse cast in a period piece works!



I disagree. It’s distracting.


I agree. It would have been fine if they just ignored it, but they made a few clumsy attempts to explain it, which just added to the whole surreal nature of the show.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2021 09:24     Subject: Bridgerton: new Netflix series
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Anonymous wrote:I’ve seen a couple reviews that say Marina had more money than her cousins. Did her father know she was pregnant when he sent her to London?


Marina’s father did have more money than the cousins. The father owed Marina’s father money and was paying for Marina to stay with them. Remember Lady Featherington telling her husband that they would not have to be bothered with Marina, but for the fact her husband’s gambling debt and Marina’s father providing money for her stay. I’m doing Marina’s father knew of her pregnancy because Marina did not know until she arrived to the Featherington home. Dad probably just wanted her away from the temptations and wagging tongues.


Explains the surplus of suitors compared to her cousins. More attractive and wealthier.


But didn't Lady Featherington describe Marina as a poor country cousin with a mere four-figure dowry? In episode 1 right before Marina arrives. Now, at the time she didn't know her husband had squandered their entire fortune away. It shows how desperate Lord F was if he borrowed from a "poorer" cousin.

Wow! In a show as simple as this, here is a person that got it right! Lady thought Marina was a poor country cousin, then she learned differently! Yet, so many pps on this thread can't follow this simple storyline? I don't recall this being in the books at all.
No wonder we are reaching more death than in WWII with a virus that you only need a mask to not get and don't go to indoor gathering places!
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2021 09:23     Subject: Bridgerton: new Netflix series
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Anonymous wrote:I’ve seen a couple reviews that say Marina had more money than her cousins. Did her father know she was pregnant when he sent her to London?


Marina’s father did have more money than the cousins. The father owed Marina’s father money and was paying for Marina to stay with them. Remember Lady Featherington telling her husband that they would not have to be bothered with Marina, but for the fact her husband’s gambling debt and Marina’s father providing money for her stay. I’m doing Marina’s father knew of her pregnancy because Marina did not know until she arrived to the Featherington home. Dad probably just wanted her away from the temptations and wagging tongues.


Explains the surplus of suitors compared to her cousins. More attractive and wealthier.


But didn't Lady Featherington describe Marina as a poor country cousin with a mere four-figure dowry? In episode 1 right before Marina arrives. Now, at the time she didn't know her husband had squandered their entire fortune away. It shows how desperate Lord F was if he borrowed from a "poorer" cousin.


Clearly, she has never met Marina before. She was clearly distressed by Marina’s physical looks.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2021 09:18     Subject: Bridgerton: new Netflix series
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Anonymous wrote:I’ve seen a couple reviews that say Marina had more money than her cousins. Did her father know she was pregnant when he sent her to London?


Marina’s father did have more money than the cousins. The father owed Marina’s father money and was paying for Marina to stay with them. Remember Lady Featherington telling her husband that they would not have to be bothered with Marina, but for the fact her husband’s gambling debt and Marina’s father providing money for her stay. I’m doing Marina’s father knew of her pregnancy because Marina did not know until she arrived to the Featherington home. Dad probably just wanted her away from the temptations and wagging tongues.


Explains the surplus of suitors compared to her cousins. More attractive and wealthier.


But didn't Lady Featherington describe Marina as a poor country cousin with a mere four-figure dowry? In episode 1 right before Marina arrives. Now, at the time she didn't know her husband had squandered their entire fortune away. It shows how desperate Lord F was if he borrowed from a "poorer" cousin.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2021 09:02     Subject: Bridgerton: new Netflix series
SO my 77-year-old FIL is insisting I keep trying to like this show! He called me a week ago to recommend it. I told him, sorry, watched three episodes and it is so boring and so dull, and fake, I can't keep watching it.
He called me again to impress on me what a great show it is and that I must like it and keep trying!
Boring books, boring show.
BTW, when are we getting the Dark-Hunters series on some streaming service? Now I'd totally watch that!
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2021 22:23     Subject: Bridgerton: new Netflix series
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Anonymous wrote:Love the diversity of the cast, too!

I read that Julian Fellows (Downton, Belgravia) defends only casting white people. This shows that a diverse cast in a period piece works!



I disagree. It’s distracting.


Sucks to be you.

Thank goodness you are in the minority.


DP. I agree that it was distracting and I’ll add - gimmicky.


Yeah looking at people who aren’t white is distracting.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2021 21:24     Subject: Bridgerton: new Netflix series
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Oh, good grief. There was no “rape.” None.


She uses him sexually in a way he did not consent to, and that she knows he does not want (in the book she gets him drunk for it, which is worse). She intentionally denies him a reproductive choice.

It's comparable to a guy removing the condom when you aren't looking.


Which also wouldn’t be considered rape.


It is rape and people have been convicted of rape for doing it. Google "stealthing."


OMG. You people are unreal.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2021 21:23     Subject: Bridgerton: new Netflix series
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Love the diversity of the cast, too!

I read that Julian Fellows (Downton, Belgravia) defends only casting white people. This shows that a diverse cast in a period piece works!



I disagree. It’s distracting.


Sucks to be you.

Thank goodness you are in the minority.


DP. I agree that it was distracting and I’ll add - gimmicky.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2021 21:20     Subject: Re:Bridgerton: new Netflix series
Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it plenty of better romance novels and they choose bridgerton with a problematic rape scene. Do better.


Agree about there being plenty of better romance novels, but there was no rape scene at all.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2021 19:58     Subject: Bridgerton: new Netflix series
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’ve seen a couple reviews that say Marina had more money than her cousins. Did her father know she was pregnant when he sent her to London?


Marina’s father did have more money than the cousins. The father owed Marina’s father money and was paying for Marina to stay with them. Remember Lady Featherington telling her husband that they would not have to be bothered with Marina, but for the fact her husband’s gambling debt and Marina’s father providing money for her stay. I’m doing Marina’s father knew of her pregnancy because Marina did not know until she arrived to the Featherington home. Dad probably just wanted her away from the temptations and wagging tongues.


Explains the surplus of suitors compared to her cousins. More attractive and wealthier.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2021 15:49     Subject: Bridgerton: new Netflix series
That scene is not rape ,they agreed to have sex. It is called reproductive coercion and he also participated in the same thing by saying he couldn’t have kids.

https://www.joinonelove.org/learn/know-reproductive-coercion/
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2021 12:13     Subject: Re:Bridgerton: new Netflix series
Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it plenty of better romance novels and they choose bridgerton with a problematic rape scene. Do better.


You don’t have to get it. Don’t watch and move on. They didn’t show a rape scene in the show.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2021 11:56     Subject: Re:Bridgerton: new Netflix series
I don’t get it plenty of better romance novels and they choose bridgerton with a problematic rape scene. Do better.