'It's difficult to imagine that 'Bridgerton' will ever make quite the splash that the first season did without stars like Regé-Jean Page,' writes Eliana Dockterman (edockterman)
His absence is sorely felt. Page had the kind of movie star charisma necessary to keep the show’s often ridiculous plot afloat.featured some truly cringe-worthy storylines, like when the Hastings educates his future bride, Daphne, about masturbation, a conversation that tested even the most dedicated costume drama lover’s appetite for a historical heroine’s naïveté.
In Bridgerton’s second season, Hastings and Daphne have settled into parenthood—and into the background of the show, as the storyline shifts to focus on a love triangle between Daphne’s brother Anthony and the Sharma sisters, the headstrong Kate and the beautiful but bland Edwina . The writers blatantly model Anthony and Kate’s love story on the relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth in Jane Austen’s. Their mutual hate grows into love, and their heated arguments evolve into obvious foreplay.
Anthony’s staunch refusal to just marry the woman he loves zaps the series of all momentum. Kate is a mashup of Elizabeth Bennet and.
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