Bridgerton Fans Think Season 3 Jumped the Shark Already

Bridgerton is the clearest example of guilty pleasure in the world of modern TV series. Of course, there are plenty of soap operas on the screen, and some of them live for 50 years. But they rarely transcend the narrow boundaries of their target audience.

The Netflix project has conquered the whole world – it has more expensive filming, more dynamic action, and the characters behave like typical characters of romance novels, but that's why viewers love them.

The creators of Bridgerton transformed the real Regency era, added racial equality, more modern outfits and pop hits of the 21st century, and the show has many storylines and characters like other pseudo-historical epics.

Bridgerton Gets Too Modern, Fans Say

Despite all the modernization, however, Bridgerton has always felt like a period drama, which is why the show has been so beloved by fans. However, with the release of the first part of the third season, fans are increasingly complaining that the project seems to be moving away from this format and beginning to resemble a typical modern rom-com.

“It's much less serious and the writing is much less formal. I went back and watched S1 the other day and the characters speak very formally, the way you'd hear characters in an Austen novel or period drama talk,” Reddit user Flownique wrote.

Bridgerton Season 3 Lacks the Small Details that Made the First Seasons Special

In the first season, the characters actually communicate in an invented version of English that seems to mimic a pastiche of the period but actually has almost nothing to do with it. One can only admire such finely crafted work – it was details like these that gave Bridgerton the spirit of classic period dramas that gave the series its special charm.

The appearance of the characters has also changed. In the first two seasons the makeup and outfits were not historically accurate (costume designer Ellen Mirojnick did not change the already colorful outfits of the Regency era much – she simply added richness to them), but with individual details they referred to the era in which the action takes place.

At the same time, in the third season one can notice a very sharp transition to complete modernization. The clothes began to resemble a kind of retro-futurism style, and the makeup looks like it was taken from the most viral videos of makeup artists on Instagram.

Such seemingly small details actually play a huge role in the audience's perception of what is happening on the screen. Bridgerton no longer takes us back to a romantic but slightly altered past – rather, the action of Bridgerton seems to take place in our time in the artificial setting of the 19th century, and this does not play into the show's hands at all.