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Bridgerton
Bridgerton premiered on Netflix in December 2020, developed by Chris Van Dusen under producer Shonda Rhimes's Shondaland production company, adapting Julia Quinn's series of Regency-era romance novels into a lavishly produced period drama with deliberately colorblind casting and a modern, string-quartet-covered pop soundtrack. The series became one of Netflix's most-watched original series ever within weeks of its release, and its success was widely credited with driving a broader surge of mainstream interest in the historical romance novel genre, with numerous authors and publishers reporting significant sales increases following the show's debut. Bridgerton's deliberate anachronisms — including its pop-song orchestral covers and racially diverse casting within a fictionalized version of Regency London high society — represented a genuinely different approach to historical drama than the strict period accuracy most competing shows in the genre had pursued. Bridgerton's combination of Shondaland's producing pedigree, its record-setting Netflix viewership, and its role in driving mainstream popular interest in historical romance fiction has made it one of the platform's most commercially significant original series.
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The Crown
The Crown premiered on Netflix in November 2016, created by Peter Morgan, and it dramatized the reign of Queen Elizabeth II across six seasons, employing a genuinely unusual production strategy of recasting its entire principal cast every two seasons to age the characters across multiple decades of British royal history. The series became one of Netflix's most expensive productions, with reported per-season budgets reaching well over $100 million at points, reflecting its lavish production design, location shooting, and costuming built to authentically recreate multiple distinct eras of 20th-century British royal life. The show drew both critical acclaim, including multiple Emmy and Golden Globe wins across its cast changes, and periodic public controversy over its blending of historical fact with dramatized speculation about the royal family's private lives, prompting Netflix to add an on-screen disclaimer describing the series as "inspired by" rather than strictly factual. The Crown's combination of its unusual recasting structure, its position as one of the most expensive scripted series ever produced, and its ongoing public debate over historical accuracy has made it one of the most significant and closely watched prestige dramas in Netflix's original programming history.
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