Also, as somebody who had myself convinced until the final moments of Sanditon that the show surely wouldn’t actually end with the main couple in such dire romantic straits, it feels good to know than this is a Shonda Rhimes production.
As somebody who has watched my fair share of Jane Austen adaptations going all the way back to all-girls high school assignments, I felt like I should be clutching my figurative pearls watching Emma and Knightley dare to kiss before tying the knot in Emma (2020), so I’m excited to see where the apparently scandalous Bridgerton is going and what it could mean for the genre.