'Queen Charlotte' attempts to course-correct 'Bridgerton' race issues. And fails miserably.
we meet a young Lady Agatha Danbury in bed. Lips pursed, eyes averted, she’s on her back waiting for her much, much older husband, Lord Danbury , to finish having sex with her. We watch her from above as she's roughly jostled about, our perspective is that of Lord Danbury, who either doesn’t notice or doesn’t care about the visible disgust roiling beneath his younger, detached wife’s flimsy mask of consent. Finally, he rolls to the side, satisfied and spent.
Before watching “Queen Charlotte,” I’d never seen a complete episode of “Bridgerton,” never mind a full season. I had tried to jump on the bandwagon when the series first premiered in 2020, but the pilot just didn’t hook me. As the show quickly ballooned into a global phenomenon, so did the backlash from Black viewers frustrated by the show’s blatant colorism toward the handful of Black characters in the color-conscious cast. I figured the show just wasn’t for me and moved on.
This jarring polarity perpetuates a long line of imagery portraying dark skin girls and women as invisible, undesirable, and unworthy of love and respect.
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