![]() Welcome back to the pop-feminist and preposterously pretty world of “Bridgerton,” where the sugariness of the eye candy pairs delectably with the show’s tart nods toward social inequities. ![]() ![]() “I am forced into a ludicrous gown so stylish that, if I move too much,” Charlotte continues, “I might be sliced and stabbed to death by my undergarments.” She deadpans, “Oh, how joyful it is to be a lady.” 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. ![]() “Whales died so I could look like this,” seventeen-year-old Charlotte (India Amarteifio) says matter-of-factly to her brother, Adolphus (Tunji Kasim), on their way to London, where she is to marry the king of England. ![]()
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