Certain aspects of this production are OTT.
Except for the Bridgerton family, everyone’s costumes are overtly garish. The dances are hyper-stylized and over-produced.
I am adjusting to the costumes, but I do miss traditional country dances.
They did the same thing with the latest ' Emma ' with over saturated and gaudy colours splodged onto the screen. This is what they think it takes to attract an audience apparently. Maybe they are right but it is sad if they are.
They’re calling it “heightened reality”
According to production designer Will Hughes-Jones, the show takes place in a "heightened reality," where everything is a bit more beautiful, more glimmering, more lovely than real life really is—then, or now. "We're not a historical show. We're storytellers. We want to be historically accurate, but if it's not accurate to the storyline, then we reassess," Hughes-Jones said at a press event.share
https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/a34993826/bridgerton-filming-locations/
The historically accurate period drama is a thing of the past. I accepted this over a decade ago. I don’t think it’s as much about attracting millennials (and younger) as many people believe, although I am sure that is part of it. I just think that producers and show runners like making programming like this.
Think about Elizabeth Taylor’s hair and makeup in Cleopatra, and The Taming of the Shrew. Definitely not historically accurate, but very “in” at the time it was filmed. I noticed some “current” hair effects in the 2007 Mansfield Park, with the stringy fringe/bangs dangling down like Keira Knightley’s wedding hairstyle in Love Actually.
P&P95 had the ugliest wigs! They looked so unnatural, especially at the partition. Miss Bingley and Lizzy’s were the worst!