Bridgerton
Slate's Spoiler Specials
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3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Slate’s TV critic Willa Paskin is joined by Slate writer and podcast host Nichole Perkins to spoil Bridgerton, the new period drama series on Netflix, produced by Shonda Rhimes.
In this re-imagined adaptation of the romance novels by Julia Quinn, eight close-knit siblings of the powerful Bridgerton family attempt to find love. But the age-old question remains: will they? Or won’t they?
Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.
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Hosts
Willa Paskin is a Slate TV critic.
Nichole Perkins is the writer and host of Slate’s new podcast This is Good for You.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.9 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:07.0 | I see death. |
| 0:10.0 | Silent freed is people. |
| 0:14.0 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:17.8 | Oh, gosh, right. |
| 0:23.2 | What's in the box? What's in the box? |
| 0:27.0 | You get it. |
| 0:28.8 | You blew it up. |
| 0:30.7 | Damn you all. |
| 0:33.4 | Hi. |
| 0:53.4 | Welcome to a slate, spoiler special of the sexy period confection, Bridg, the Netflix series produced by Shonda Rhymes, created by Chris Van Dusen and based on a series of romance novels by Julia Quinn. I'm Slate's TV critic, Willa Paskin, and I am joined today by Nicole Perkins, the writer and host of the new podcast. this is good for you. Hi, Nicole. |
| 0:55.0 | Hi, Wella. |
| 0:55.5 | How are you? I'm good. I'm actually really excited to do this because I was putting watching Bridgeton off. Like I watched the first one and I was like, eh. And then I watched them all very recently and I enjoyed them more than I was expecting to. So I'm excited to talk to you. I would say that before I watched the show, |
| 1:10.9 | I kept thinking about it as like, |
| 1:12.4 | um, |
| 1:12.7 | gossip girl meets Downton Abbey. But now that I have actually watched the show, I think of it more as like Jane Austen meets one of those teen comedies where they pretend they fake get together to fool everyone and then fall in love. Like she's all that with more sex and more black people. |
| 1:28.9 | And I'm excited to talk about it with you. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm excited to talk about it too. |
| 1:34.5 | It's funny because I have never watched any of those things. |
| 1:39.6 | And like I don't watch any pride or prejudice kind of adaptation. I don't like do that. I don't really watch |
| 1:47.2 | team stuff, you know, so I don't, when everyone's like, oh, it's just like this, it's just like |
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