Elly Arrow and Savannah Severn are joined by screenwriter and director Diana to dive into the first two seasons of the Netflix hit show "Bridgerton" and its treatment of the pseudo-Regency era marriage market, how the female and male characters navigate its perils respectively, and the ideas transported about love, sex(ual exploitation), patriarchy, racism, and class oppression, in due course.

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Creator Chris Van Dusen on the inspiration for Bridgerton: https://www.out.com/print/2022/3/25/how-bridgerton-was-inspired-its-gay-creators-west-hollywood-family

Bridgerton earned Netflix $350+ million dollars: https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/streaming/bridgerton-streaming-revenue-netflix

For more pop culture review, see our episode "Pretty Woman Is Darker Than You Remember".

To hear more from Diana, listen to our episode "A Look At Film Censorship, Sex Scenes and Intimacy Coordinators"

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