Bridgerton

It’s brilliantly cast and it all looks gorgeous – the flower arrangements alone must have cost a bomb. Solid telly.

A show that will give you that unmistakable binge twinge and have you activating that "Next Episode" time and again, until there are no more...

For most, "Bridgerton" only needs to be the fluffy tail on a beastly year. Despite its very real imperfections nobody should torture themselve...

It may never reach the status of high art, but as high camp and escapist entertainment it’s pretty irreproachable.

This confectionary treat of a show knows exactly what you might want from it and delivers those fantasies on a silver platter with a dashing...

Still beautiful, still fun and still excellent.

A sexy, joyous, colorful update of the classic will-they-or-won’t-they Regency-era courting tale.

As deliberately frustrating as the main love story becomes, the actors playing it are very, very good.

For it is by wearing its heart, like Penelope, on its sleeve, that Bridgerton succeeds entirely on its own terms: a sharp-witted, sexy but never se...

A romance is built or broken on the believability of the obstacles keeping the predestined lovers apart, and Bridgerton’s intricate plotting...

It’s all done with buoyant wit, both in front of and behind the camera.

Now that we’re all a bit less delirious, we can judge the arrival of series two on its dramatic merits. And it is still silly fun, though the...

Those looking for romantic escapism with picture-perfect historic detail could do a lot worse than Bridgerton.

Characters old and new almost burst with vim, vigour, machination and comedic foible in every corner.

Whatever its stumbles in other areas, Bridgerton continues to nail it in the one arena that counts most – its central romance.

I was not madly in love with the show, but I was endlessly amused by it.

Bridgerton is amusing enough and will scratch a certain thirsty itch, but its themes about love, marriage, and class aren’t quite as pro...

Bridgerton, it seems, is a wonderful diversion for those who love Pride & Prejudice but wish it had more stairway sex.

The new run of Bridgerton has less sex – but is sexier than the first season. It’s also more compelling in almost every way.

My empty, end-of-the-year brain was well served by the burlesque of selfish viscounts, conniving ladies of the house, and enterprising modistes. Le...

Like the pretty ladies outfitted in sequins and silk, there is far more to "Bridgerton" than meets the eye.

From the overdressed sets to the overdressed cast, it is a show that indulges our basest qualities, but does so delightfully.

I thought Bridgerton handled well the history connected to high-stakes storylines on race, pregnancy and abortion, and same-sex love, but a fe...

Take my word, dear reader, this second helping of the smash Netflix series still smolders. Despite a drag at midpoint and the no-show of seaso...

There’s not enough delayed gratification for a true sense of yearning, nor enough messiness to make recognizably human relationships. No...

Van Dusen makes Bridgerton’s many twists and turns satisfying to the end, even when they’re predictable, and the young cast of mostly u...

What Bridgerton does is to create a world where romance and sex and hate and love and fear all live together - a place soaked in familiarity t...

If you’re pernickety about how to address nobles, or the correct depth of a curtsy, you won’t enjoy this much, but once you relax...

Bridgerton is ultimately extravagantly decent.

This sophomore run is simply not as effusive a watch… That said, many of the series pleasures still remain intact

This new Shondaland smash, her first for Netflix, is set in 1813 London and features color-blind casting, a mega-sexy star in Rege-Jean P...

It’s brilliantly perverse, a loving embrace of the period romance that sends up every Austen trope along the way.

With a second season that’s more clever, moving, and emotionally complex than the first, this period drama proves that it’s not ju...

I felt by the end of the first episode it had delighted me with its presence long enough, and yet … and yet … Was there not, after all, room for ju...

It could be that Lady Whistledown isn’t the only one who sees where all of this is going – but what a lovely, colorful, steamy and gorgeo...

It’s a hoot – a faux-modern romance with a diverse cast and focusing on Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor), who is, of course, busy...

The various marriage plots and melodramas feel familiar… and the gestures at upstairs-downstairs class-consciousness are underdeveloped. But what w...

This wasn’t exactly told at a lick, with many a redundant scene, but it still had its entertaining moments. In particular, I was en...

Despite its positives, Bridgerton is ultimately not as fully, effectively transportive this go-round.

Bridgerton gives us everything we’re craving right now: extravagant parties, elaborate outfits, salacious gossip, human touch.

Weve reviewed so many period dramas that always feel the same theyre always static, laboured and slow. Bridgerton is like the antidote to all of that.

I breezed through all eight episodes, never surprised, but always pleased by what I saw – especially whenever the wonderful Adjoa Andoh a...

Bridgerton remains a cleverly conceived modern wrinkle on the Jane Austen formula, down to its anachronisms, like playing a musical version of...

Even without the sex, it excels at the colourful, colour-blind, MTV Jane Austen genre that it has invented.

"Bridgerton" has a strong sophomore season that should keep its fans happy, even if they might wonder where all the sex scenes went.

Bridgerton is the guilty pleasure selection of the holiday season that manages to emerge from its soap opera obligations rather innocently.

"Bridgerton" may delight most of all in upending the historical realities of women’s repression with a detailed narrative of Daphne&rsqu...

The premise isn’t revolutionary, but at least the streamers are still spending money trying to make something new and entertaining.

Bridgerton season two has gone in the opposite direction. The result is a season that will likely delight returning and new Bridgerton viewers...

The new season of the Netflix smash hit may not be as physical, but in the crackling chemistry and relentless self-denial that defines the leads’ d...

While the privileged atmosphere, back-stabbing, rampant rutting and frocks are certainly part of the Bridgerton allure, so is the refreshing acknow...

A pleasingly OTT exercise in glossy, glorious escapism, Bridgerton is a jolt of joy and romance at the end of a year that, for most of us, has...

Bridgerton is in fine health and ready for what will doubtless be many more seasons. Next time, though, it might need to work harder to feel new.

This is, indeed, more a tale of longing and, yes, withholding – but emotionally, not in the ‘Hot Simon’ sense – yet it’s still gorge...

In its reimagining of Regency-era London (between 1811 and 1820), Bridgerton continues to be colourful and colour-blind.

Bridgerton’s end result is a heady cloud of pleasure and true love set in an idealized, more inclusive milieu. At a time when I&rsq...

There are eight episodes of Bridgerton, and they all have endings that are like chapters in a good book: They leave you in a spot where y...

Bridgerton remains gorgeously frothy, deeply silly and highly watchable – its legions of fans will eat this up. The honeymoon period might be...