DIFFERENT CLASS
Mar 14, 2022
2 minutes
By Steven MacKenzie
A budding debutante at a ball could not wish for a more perfectly timed entrance.
Bridgerton arrived at a momentous moment: Christmas Day 2020 – the year Christmas was cancelled.
While we made do with smaller social gatherings and party games performed via video, an invitation arrived to enter the fantastical, hyper-real world of Regency-era London.
In the first month, 82 million households became the most watched Netflix show of all time, winning fans as diverse as Kim Kardashian and Rishi Sunak.
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