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Critical Response
Salamishah Tillet of The New York Times said "Bridgerton provides a blueprint for British period shows in which Black characters can thrive within the melodramatic story lines, extravagant costumes and bucolic beauty [...] without having to be servants or enslaved." Erum Salam of Cosmopolitan wrote "I kept wanting more. I wanted more explanations of how race factored into this society..." Carolyn Hinds from the Observer stated "Bridgerton has been praised as a racially diverse show set in the Regency Era" Vanity Fair's Caroline Framke describes the sex in the series "isn't altogether shocking material for Shondaland to mine for it's first drama series absent broadcast restraints." IMDb gave Bridgerton a rating of 7.3 stars out of 10.

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The series reached #1 in 76 countries on Netflix. Bridgerton is Shonda Rhimes first scripted Netflix series.

Development
On the Tamron Hall Show the author of Bridgerton, Julia Quinn, talked about how she found out that Shona Rhimes was interested in adapting her novels. Julia said "I was just sitting there... in a Starbucks and my phone rang and it was my agent and he said "Have you heard of Shona Rhimes?" and I almost fell off of my stool." Quinn quickly said yes to the television adaptation offer. Bridgerton's showrunner Chris Van Dusen said in a Shondaland article "I think [period shows] are considered a bit traditional and conservative. With Bridgerton, I wanted to take everything I loved about about a period show and turn it into something fresh, topical, and relatable."