Bridgerton is the blockbuster hit Netflix series of the season! The regency era romance is based on the first book in the series: The Duke and I by best-selling novels by Julia Quinn.
What You Need to Know About Bridgerton
Romantic period dramas like Poldark and Outlander have legends of loyal (obsessed) fans. Now we have Bridgerton, the sexy, romantic fantasy regency era romance is Netflix’s eight-episode blockbuster hit series.
It follows the romantic adventures of the Bridgerton family’s eight siblings, named alphabetically. This fact according to the infamous Lady Whistledown is ‘orderliness to the point of banality‘. [Read More…]
The Handsome Duke: Rege’-Jean Page
Enter the Duke of Hastings. In the first Julia Quinn book of the Bridgerton series, The Duke and I. Simon Basset is described as tall, dark, exceedingly handsome. He is a rake, an 18th womanizer, with piercing eyes. But like with most of us, there’s more to Simon than meets the eye.
Rege’- Jean Page is perfect casting as the Duke. Is it in the way he walks or his deep sultry voice, or that slight raise of his eyebrow?
Listen to Regé-Jean Page On Redefining Regency-era Masculinity In ‘Bridgerton’ interview on NPR
The Bridgerton Novels by Julia Quinn
Bridgerton the hit Netflix series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix is based on the novels of New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn.
There are 8 novels about the romantic Regency world, each following the lives and loves of the members of the charming and quirky Bridgerton family.
Season 1 is based on the first book in the Series, Bridgerton: The Duke and I.
Simon Basset, The handsome Duke of Hastings, and Miss Daphne Bridgerton concoct a devious plan to a fake courtship. Supposedly to keep away the man-hungry mamas seeking husbands for their daughters before him.
For Daphne, the plan will attract more suitors. Because we all know that men want what they think they cannot have. [ Read More…]
