The first season of “Bridgerton” has just ended with 8 episodes, giving the audience a quite complete ending and many admirable achievements during the gloomy pandemic time. The film enthusiast community was also extremely looking forward to when the film crew officially announced that the sequel to “Bridgerton” would be produced in the near future. 

“Bridgerton: The Duke and I” has caused a fever on Netflix because of the passionate, romantic, dreamlike love story between Lady Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and Simon Basset (Rege-Jean). Page) – The gallant Duke of Hastings. Unlike many haughty ladies of her time, Daphne stood out with her strong and intelligent personality. Even though she lives in a society where marriage is the premise, Daphne still maintains the desire to marry the person she loves. One time, Daphne accidentally met Simon Basset, and the two set up “fake dates” for personal purposes. 
Part 2 of the film will follow Julia Quinn’s second novel in the series “Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me”, revolving around Anthony as he searches for his perfect match.
Everything started to reach its climax when Daphne fell in love and wanted to marry Simon, and he was willing to accept death but refused to give Daphne anything other than the words ” I can’t marry you…” . Besides, the film also sends a positive message, that everyone has the right to fight for what they want, whether it is love or something bigger.
Romance novels have actually not been as well received as films 
After the success of the first part, fans have been paying more attention to Julia Quinn’s works about the romantic and exciting adventures of the Bridgerton children in high society in early-century London. 19th century. This is something that surprised the “mother” of the series because as she once said to the media: “Romantic novels are not comparable to literary works, many individuals still look down on them.” , is no different from the stepchild of the publishing industry” . ” Bridgerton” TV version has received a rain of compliments from the online community and experts since its debut and has become a cult phenomenon among filmmakers today. 
The 8 novels of the series all tell stories revolving around each Bridgerton brother and sister.

Surpassing “The Witcher”, the film recorded an opening record on Netflix

Launched in December 2020, “Bridgerton” was released in 83 countries worldwide. In just 4 weeks of release, the adaptation reached more than 63 million households and attracted more than 82 million views. In addition, the work also scored 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and was highly praised by the public. The UK publisher of author Julia Quinn’s works is also rushing to republish books about the “Bridgerton” house to go along with the film.
The series cost around £5 million to create each episode.

Filming took nine months and all took place before the pandemic struck

“Bridgerton” completed filming before the movie industry was hit by the pandemic. Filming for the series began in July 2019 and ended in February 2020. In addition, to help the actors get into character, they trained for 1 month to learn more about the Regency era (Regent, 1811-1820) in the 19th century.   
Actors are taught things like horseback riding, period history, etiquette, and learn dancing, piano, etc.

“Bridgerton” does not make recreating British history its focus

In contrast to films in the “period drama” genre such as “The White Queen” (2013) or “The Tudors” (2007), “Bridgerton” is a series completely created to satisfy the need for entertainment and the desire for pure romance in movies. This element allows the series to be creative and focus entirely on its ultimate scenario: a passionate love story between an upper-class young woman and an aristocratic man in an ideal society – a England was equal, peaceful, civilized and sophisticated (contrary to reality at that time).
The producer “rewrote” British history in “Bridgerton” by letting some black characters appear in the aristocracy.

A massive wardrobe was painstakingly prepared by the film crew

The film crew spent more than 5 months preparing elaborate and beautiful costumes for the actors. Behind 7,500 flowing dresses, there are 238 skilled workers. Among them, the costumes of female lead Daphne Bridgerton alone are 104 sets. Other noble princesses were no less competitive as they also wore at least 10 different evening dresses for 10 banquets.
It’s amazing how everything is hand-tailored from start to finish to create flawless outfits.

Modern hits are excellently transformed

Wordless symphonies are often an indispensable element in this genre of films, but “ Bridgerton” cleverly brought musical products of the 21st century to the mid-19th century. They transformed them. to a version performed with classical instruments such as violin, viola and cello. Songs associated with the names of Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish… appeared extremely unconventional but completely reasonable. 

About 200 people worked hard behind the scenes 

A big-budget production requires a lot of people working together behind the scenes. According to the producer, the film crew consists of at least a few hundred people to complete each scene as meticulously as possible. Specifically, the set designers and carpenters spent 4 months just making the fireplace and windows. 
For epic scenes involving heavy rainstorms, designers used sound stages to be able to control rain levels and water temperatures.

The actors have to practice several weeks in advance to get beautiful “love” scenes

In order to have intimate scenes that are both beautiful and not too offensive, the film crew asked experts to advise on sex scenes to ensure safety and help the actors feel comfortable. Besides, to avoid physical or psychological problems during filming, the actors and producers agreed on a secret sign, which they will sign if inconveniences arise during filming.  
What makes the film successful is certainly not to mention the sweet chemistry of the two main actors.

There are a total of 293 scenes throughout season 1

If you watch all 8 episodes of “Bridgerton” , viewers can see many beautiful and sparkling scenes that are extremely elaborately staged. Of these, only about 30% of the scenes were filmed on set, the rest were filmed in locations mainly in London such as Bath and Yorkshire.
There are a total of 293 scenes full of luxury and magnificence, certainly no less dreamy and romantic.

Costume colors contain unique messages

Observant viewers can see that each family has their own unique color scheme. The Bridgertons almost always use glass blue and pastel pink as the main colors, while the Featheringtons focus on more colorful colors such as pine green, bumblebee yellow, merigold orange… and red is also indispensable. Outstanding ruby ​​of the Hastings family. In addition, to mark Daphne’s maturity when married, most of her outfits are also darker.
The colors of the costumes deeply reflect each character’s personality and characteristics.