A tsunami of fan comments, a stream of signatures and threats to no longer contact the Bridgerton family and, on the other hand, viewing records – this is the balance of the season. Melinda Hall points out that the series as a whole represents a much better experience than she expected, as there is a lot of sarcasm and smart humor in it. For example, the male characters are all attractive and idealistic, while the negative characters are the opposite, that is, they present male society in an extreme, almost cartoonish, stereotypical way.
I really like satire, but how and to what extent one understands what one sees as caricature is largely a matter of socialization. I often see people not understanding this. For example, it is difficult to explain to many that although the year 1813 is written at the beginning of the Bridgerton family, the story is only set in the era. Viewers believe this is true of history because of the history. This phenomenon has the same psychological background when I ask 14-15 year olds whether some reality shows depict spontaneous events or whether they are played by actors. According to half the young people, the people who appear there really live this way, they don't know that amateur actors act through a script, and they were shocked by this
– Melinda Hall explainsAdding that when we have such a well-organized series before us, the impact on historical knowledge is even more felt.
According to the expert, the fundamental problem in producing content today is that while with a picture of Van Gogh, people could decide whether they liked sunflowers, now the producer says what his opinion might be. This affects the sovereign decision. What clearly indicates the phenomenon is that before the comments criticizing the decisions of Jess Brownell, the heroine of the new Bridgerton series, everyone on social media points out that she does not write what she writes from a standpoint of racism or homophobia, even if she herself is a member of one of the minorities she wants to represent. , but as a novel reader you want to see it on screen again, which is what I also love about books.
The Bridgerton family has never been a drama that relies on narrative tension and dramatic twists, but in season three, the dramatic flaws become more apparent. The series has repeatedly strayed from its own rules, in many cases by conforming too firmly to the expectations of the woke. For example, the favorite couple of the main characters, Penelope (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin (Luke Newton), doesn’t get much time to play, and the story of the other important character in the season, Francesca (Hannah Dowd) in season three, loses its validity. Because the gay future on offer makes it impossible to deal with the infertility that plagues so much of the books.
Many critics have asked this question in both social and traditional media: if this is the case in 21st. We want to tell a story from the nineteenth century, why do we insist on the nineteenth century? Topic of the century? According to foreign policy journalist Rita Konya The system of rules that Wake Up represents sooner or later becomes a parody of itself, because it cannot be extended indefinitely. Recently, for example, there was a proposal in the US legislature to terminate the jobs of government agency workers who were merely organizing diversity training sessions.
As Melinda Hall sees it, the awakening cannot continue, it falsifies history and tries to turn the fantasy world into reality, but the alternate reality hurts the oppressed, kidnapped and killed in the name of integration, because they cannot know their history. Critics of the series have pointed out from the beginning that they do not understand why streaming providers insist on presenting familiar stories in a new way, and why they do not prefer to search for stories that have not yet been told.
So far, only the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, who was born the daughter of Sir John Lindsay and an African slave and received a polite upbringing, has been depicted, although William Davidson, born in Jamaica, also lived in that era, who studied law in Scotland at the age of fourteen and became a popular councillor. Olaudah Equiano was born in what is now Nigeria, and then lived in England as a famous writer and merchant with his English wife, who was also the wife of a British colonel born in Jamaica.
According to fans of the series, critics should distance themselves from the main work, and those who do not like the historical anachronisms of the Regency era should accept that Bridgerton embodies the dream world. Despite this, the series did not cause as much of a stir as the third season. Several petitions were started, one to reveal the cut scenes of Penelope and Colin, and the other for the character of Michael Sterling, so that the series does not rewrite Michaela, who was introduced in the last episode. The question is to what extent the producers will listen to the requests of the fans for the next season, which will be shown in two years. According to the statements, not much. According to experts, this is also sad because the Bridgerton family presents many human relationships in a useful way, but if the elements of awakening and the drama resolved on the altar of this fan are lost, the positive message will also be lost. A detailed analysis of this phenomenon can be heard in In Women Veritas with Melinda Hall and Rita Cunha.
