In “Queen Charlotte,” a prequel spinoff of “Bridgerton,” “there’s a distinct Shonda-ness to the dialogue,” inkookang writes.
“Whales died so I could look like this,” seventeen-year-old Charlotte says matter-of-factly to her brother, Adolphus , on their way to London, where she is to marry the king of England. The whalebone corset she’s obliged to wear—“rather delicate and also very, very sharp”—has rendered her immobile for the siblings’ six-hour stagecoach journey, while her dress, made of two-hundred-year-old lace and encrusted with sapphires, imposes its own restrictions.
The spinoff is meant to tell two tales: the story of why Charlotte, an orphan from a small German province, was chosen to wed George III , and an explanation of how this version of Great Britain came to be a color-blind society that embraces Charlotte, a light-skinned Black European, as their queen.
“Bridgerton” ’s first season gave the romance genre an update by deferring the climax until after the wedding; its protagonist, Daphne, fought for her happily ever after with a husband who had, unbeknownst to her, vowed never to have children, to spite his abusive, lineage-fixated father. Charlotte suffers a similar post-nuptial shock. Kept from meeting her future husband until their wedding, Charlotte flees the ceremony hall, until she’s found and charmed back by George himself.
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