What is Bridgerton about?
Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
Bridgerton (2020)
Regency-era England provides the whimsical, romantic backdrop for a family's dramatic pursuits of wealth and love.
Campy. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Netflix.
Bridgerton parents guide
The thing to know: strong sex and nudity, more than a TV-MA usually carries. Beyond that, no real violence and mild language.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Strong
- Strong means explicit or repeated sex, extended nudity, or sexual assault shown on screen, attempted or completed, even partly off screen. Any one of these is enough.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
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Cast and crew
Created byChris Van Dusen
StarringRuth Gemmell, Luke Thompson, Yerin Ha, Luke Newton, Claudia Jessie, Florence Hunt
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