Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 5106659, member: 966"] I binged [B]Bridgerton[/B] over the past couple of weeks. I have mixed feelings about it. I think I probably only tried it and stuck with it after episode one because I semi-recently have been watching Derry Girls (so much fun) and wanted to see the transformation of Nicola Coughlan. So, whatever—Bridgerton. It’s pretty. It’s also rather shallow. And even though it tries to represent historical themes, I feel it does a disservice to womanhood (whatever that word means). It’s a story about male/female roles in a fantasy era. Which could have a positive, educational impact on the audience, but… I think it reinforces and validates concepts that we would like to see as antiquated and extinct. Essentially, the women are the focus, and the men are accompaniments but I can’t help but see so much of the storylines as disparaging to women. They marry for money and station. They care about little else than that, judging and being judged, following protocol, being at one end or the other of snobbery…. There are essentially only three businesses in the “ton” — a bar, a print shop, and a fashion house. And guess which one is featured most prominently. The women here are all about gossip and shopping. The good: The language. I love it. The elegance and formality of it. Except for one quite annoying… sorry, two quite annoying dialogue tendencies. One of which I constantly reflected upon as being perfect for a drinking game, but I fear people would die of alcohol poisoning in droves. Secondly, the female actors. For the most part. They’re quite good and I quickly took a strong liking to both characters and those actresses. Really like Eloise, and I imagine she’s just about everyone’s easy favorite. Penelope, of course. And then the youngest daughter Hyacinth was absolutely darling. She looks like a young Jackie Kennedy. The one that really developed over the course of three seasons, though, was Philippa. She’s a complete moron, in the most charming way. Just fun. So, yeah…. It’s watchable. It’s even bingeable. But it’s like a big bag of gummi bears. But, watch a few episodes of Derry Girls (also on Netflix) first. [SPOILER="Not really a spoiler, but…"] My drinking game: I don’t really drink, so this was just ‘symbolic’ for me—a ‘fun’ exercise, but if you had to drink every time someone said “perhaps,” you’d die. What made that even more amusing for me was the way the British pronounce it. It’s more like a contraction—“paps!” So, yeah, that was me, 300 times in the past two weeks, echoing “P’aps!” every thirty seconds with the raising of a pretend shot glass. [/SPOILER] [/QUOTE]

Verification: What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?