Season 2 of popular Netflix streamer features the Sharma sisters, arriving in London from Bombay.
From left, Charithra Chandran as Edwina Sharma and Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton. The half-sisters re-enter London high society after spending a few years in Bombay.back on Netflix, the belle of the streamed TV ball has returned — and the introduction of two South Asian romantic leads has prompted discussion of cultural representation on television.
"It's very clear to me when a show … or a movie has written a character with no ethnicity or intended to be white, and then they cast a South Asian actor, and they don't change anything about it," Khosla said. Randy Boyagoda, a novelist and professor of English at the University of Toronto, said he was conflicted by the casting announcement, feeling that intentionally casting two characters by their ethnicity would be inconsistent with the show's ethos.was the decision to not make such conventional linkages between actors, demographics and the background or the origins associated with the characters they are playing," Boyagoda said.
"You can't just be like, 'okay, what's one Indian word for father or a word for sister? What's a city in India?' and then throw it all together. Because all of those things have specific meanings and come from different regions."From left, Adjoa Andoh as Lady Danbury, Chandran as Edwina, Shelley Conn as Mary Sharma and Ashley as Kate in Bridgerton. The fashion in this season is reflective of a desire for Indian textiles in Britain during the Regency period.