Bridgerton Roundtable DiscountEDU

Episode Notes
Trigger warning for mentions of sexual violence from 5:15 through 5:50.

Spoiler alert for everything beyond 11:50.

Beck Dengler 
This is going to be NBN’s Bridgerton Roundtable. We're going to talk about this just crazy show that tries to do a million things at once. It was adapted based on a novel series by Julia Quinn, which is actually an eight book series. So there could be a lot of Bridgerton in our future. The show has been very hyped, at least a lot of people are watching it. So I guess the first question to begin with is does Bridgerton deserve the hype? And what are your thoughts on the show?
 
Isha
I mean, I liked it. I think it kind of did deserve the hype. I feel like a lot of the drama lately have been teen dramas, and not period pieces-ish. So I feel like it's kind of new. It has its own flavor. And I think Shonda Rhimes is the producer, and I mean I like all of her other shows. She brings in a lot of the elements that I like about the other shows into Bridgerton. And so I think that the hype is deserved.
 
Elizabeth
Since Downton Abbey, we haven't seen as popular of a period drama, as far as I know. So it's kind of been like that next modern twist on Downton Abbey. Although I do think that the first couple episodes were a little slow,  eventually, as we got more in tune and more insight into the characters, I think it did eventually live up to the hype.
 
Tanisha 
The costumes are great and I feel like a lot of people watch period pieces for the aesthetic. And I get that. I get that completely, but I don't think plot wise it was as invigorating as Downton Abbey or anything that you might expect from a period piece. I feel like in any show, you need to have someone you're really rooting for. And I just didn't see that here. I personally didn't care much for Daphne at all. She didn't really know what she wanted. She just wanted to get married. And I'm not saying that that's not cool, but beyond that, she didn't have a personality. Her personality was that she didn't like Simon from the get-go, unlike everyone else, so that makes her quirky and unique, and so she should be the protagonist. Een the other characters like Eloise, who I think is very, very, very, very, gay, as much as I love her, her only personality was, I hate everything that Daphne does, and I want to be the opposite of her. And everyone else is just kind of like, "nice."
 
Isha  
With Eloise, her thing was very "not like the other girls," which makes a little bit of sense because she did not like what a lot of the other girls were into. She wants her to get her education or whatever. But it felt like she did not express that the right way. It felt like she was taking her anger out, that should have maybe been on society in general, on Daphne. With what you said about Daphne, my biggest issue with her is she would constantly complain that the men in her life didn't trust her to make decisions and stuff, which is great cause like hashtag feminism, you know. But every time she had the opportunity to make a decision for herself she kind of messed that up.
 
Beck Dengler  
My opinion on the show was ehh somewhat fun to watch, but I did not like the characters. It was trying to do so many things. It was really trying to establish this whole world, a cinematic world with all the different characters having their own storylines. We go to their gambling place. They've got a boxing ring. We go to their orgy house, like we’re really going all over the place with tons of these different characters. I don't even know their names. And then they’re held on by this ultimate romance with Daphne. Her motivations change slightly, but she just tries to get the Duke to impregnate her I guess. I guess that's the vibe.
 
Tanisha  
When I was watching the show, I kept forgetting that it was called Bridgerton because I was so confused by why it was called that. I really thought it should have been called Lady Whistledown. The only pe