"I wonder if you are aware that Bridgerton is not a Shonda Rimes invention, but a re-working of a popular romance series about the Bridgerton Family, and its children, who are named alphabetically from A through H. The series has no characters of color at all. Rimes has incorporated black characters into a British family saga in order to shake up the dominant romance paradigm. I wouldn't expect you to know this, as I'm pretty sure that black men don't read Regency romances! She has done that not only with non-traditional casting, but also with music. Listen to the debut scene in Season 2, where you will hear Madonna's "Material Girl" rendered as a stately minuet."

I'm well aware that it's an adaptation lol ... and the source material is also problematic in of itself. I actually don't care about the rest of the statement as if we should settle for crumbs just for being included. The show is still racist. It is possible to include Black people without being racist. Plenty of POC scholars have talked about this.

This roundtable pretty much nips it in the bud.

https://kerrysinanan.medium.com/unsilencing-the-past-in-bridgerton-2020-a-roundtable-792ecffd366

"While your observations may be accurate about what it takes for a white audience to view a drama with black characters, Rimes is not making the inclusion of black love more acceptable. In fact, she has probably pissed off a lot of white people by portraying some of their beloved characters as non-white."

She has not made it more acceptable, in fact Bridgerton has made an already racist problem in Hollywood worse. Rhimes has made it more unacceptable. She's added fuel to the fire with this programme and it's really sad. She's also pissed off a lot of Black and Brown people with this show. I don't particularly care about making white people happy, everything life is already set to their emotional standard. I don't care about their feelings ... they will complain no matter what. So fragile.

Bridgerton is a racist programme in how it writes its Black characters. Zero thought went into the sociological framings of it, and it seems there was not one critical brain in the writers' room. It's not the only film/TV series to do this, but not all texts get 600m viewers in the first season!