![]() ![]() ![]() So read on only if you’re ready to know how it will all play out for Daphne Bridgerton and her titular duke.ĭaphne felt the strangest, most intoxicating surge of power. How did Shondaland handle the story line in the series? Well, that would be a spoiler. ![]() (One might call it A Very Sexy MCU.) But despite Quinn’s success, the first book in the series- The Duke and I-is controversial, thanks to a central plot point that hinges on a very disturbing sex scene. In some ways, Quinn’s popular Bridgerton series-a nine-book interlocking saga focusing on the love lives of various members of the Bridgerton clan-is an ideal choice in the age of franchising. On one hand, it was thrilling to see Rhimes, one of the most well-respected and powerful TV showrunners in the business, bringing an unabashedly sexy romance novel to the screen-doubling down on the success of Starz’s Outlander adaptation, but with a series untempered by bloodthirsty Scotsmen. When the world learned that Shonda Rhimes would kick off her lucrative Netflix deal with an adaptation of Julia Quinn’s Regency romance novel The Duke and I, the reception in the book community was decidedly mixed. ![]()
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