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KATHRYN FLETT'S My TV week: It's like bingeing a box of pastel macarons


UK writer Kathryn Flett reviews the new series of Netflix hit Bridgerton as well as new Channel 4 gymnast drama The Gathering.

Each drop-dead-gorgeous frock and OTT ball with a gloriously choreographed minuet to Madonna ’s Material Girl acknowledged that the faux-Regency potboiler was perfect big-budget ‘guilty pleasure’ viewing for our troubled times. However, if you’ve still not had the pleasure of a show (based on novels by US author Julia Quinn) that features not once but twice in the streamer’s all-time Top Ten English language hits (knee-buckling combined total views of 207,100,000), then let’s get up to speed. Sadie Soverall (recently seen in Saltburn) is compelling as Jess, though the beating heart of the story is Kelly, played by Eva Morgan – already shimmering with charisma, straight out of drama school.

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