Bridgerton Season 2 - one was enough

While I enjoyed the first season, I never understood the fuss about this show. It is not that special. It is not that creative or innovative. I really didn’t get it. Now, this second season… has the exact same story with different characters!

It is the same old cliche. A girl and boy hate each other when they first meet. But it is all sexual energy contained, and they are secretly in love. The. Exact. Same. Story.

Where’s the Duke?

We already know that the actor was leaving the show. What we didn’t know was how they would deal with this absence. The couple could disappear, and we would only have news of them by letter or so. No! Daphne becomes a sort of extra with a couple of lines, and he is never there!

She spends quite a significant amount of time with her family but alone with the kid. Her husband wasn’t even present at her brother’s wedding, that was, by the way, his friend!

The Sharmas

The new characters have potential. Secrets and half-told stories are always good in this kind of show. Yet, I didn’t like them.

The sisters are pretty annoying, especially the youngest one.

One was enough

One season of this show was more than enough. Sure, it has good things, like the fact that it isn’t too slow, as most dramas tend to be. Perhaps, that’s the reason why we still keep watching despite everything I said before.

It was an interesting idea at first, massively successful. How about stopping there? They never do, do they?

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