Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Los Angeles Times

    'Bridgerton' Season 2 isn't as horny as the first. Its creator explains the 'slow burn'

    by Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times Mar 28, 2022 10 minutes
    From left, Charithra Chandran, Simone Ashley, Shelley Conn, and Jonathan Bailey in "Bridgerton."

    With the debut season of "Bridgerton," creator and showrunner Chris Van Dusen had to live up to the expectations of loyal readers of the Julia Quinn novels on which the drama is based. With the Netflix sensation's second season, that remains true — only now with the added expectations of some 82 million households.

    "I'd be lying if I said it wasn't overwhelming, but in the best way possible," Van Dusen says. "I hope the world responds to it and embraces it as much as they did in the first season. I say, 'Bring on the pressure!' I think the pressure worked in Season 1. It was only natural that certain expectations got placed on this show after the incredible success of the first season. That raised our profile."

    Following a triumphant debut that had fans obsessing over the love story between socialite Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and the brooding Duke of Hastings, aka Simon Basset (Rege-Jean Page), the Regency-era romance is back to make viewers swoon again, this time with a new couple — well, trio — at its center.

    This season, which is based on Quinn's book "The Viscount Who Loved Me," puts the eldest Bridgerton sibling, Anthony (Jonathan Bailey), at the forefront, as he navigates his reluctant feelings for a new woman in town, Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley), and a sense of duty to instead marry her sister, Edwina (Charithra Chandran).

    Van Dusen applied his years of drama training — meaning work at production company Shondaland — to "Bridgerton." Straight out of USC's Peter Stark Producing Program, the Maryland native landed a job as Shonda Rhimes' assistant when "Grey's Anatomy" was in development and internally known as "Sex in the Surgery." He eventually transitioned

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Los Angeles Times

    Los Angeles Times3 min readCrime & Violence
    Carvalho Faults Alleged Actions Of School Safety Worker Who Failed To Stop Fatal Fight
    LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles school district has removed a campus-safety contractor from Washington Preparatory High School after an adult — who apparently worked for the contractor — refused to intervene before a fight that ended with the death of
    Los Angeles Times8 min read
    Beyond Erewhon: Inside The LA Grocery Store Where All The Cool Vegans Are Flocking
    LOS ANGELES -- On a rainy Saturday afternoon in late March, a block of East Hollywood is unusually quiet but for the corner of Fountain Avenue and North Edgemont Street. There, a line snakes halfway around the perimeter of a little vegan grocery stor
    Los Angeles Times3 min read
    Commentary: USC’s ‘Security Risk’ Rationale To Thwart Peaceful Protest Is Not Justified
    During Vietnam War protests, the Nixon administration called them “outside agitators.” Now my university’s provost prefers “participants — many of whom do not appear to be affiliated with USC.” Beyond Andrew Guzman’s misdemeanor of wordiness, the pla

    Related Books & Audiobooks