The week in TV: Bridgerton; Motherland; Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse and more

Netflix’s new costume drama was wonderfully preposterous. Plus, when the father of Matilda met the mother of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle

Bridgerton | Netflix
Motherland (BBC Two) | iPlayer
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse | Sky One
BBC Sports Personality of the Year (BBC One) | iPlayer
Marcus Rashford: Feeding Britain’s Children (BBC One) | iPlayer

Now that my bosom has stopped heaving over the new Netflix offering, Bridgerton, I can proceed with this review. I’m not sure what I was expecting from this eight-part costume drama released on Christmas Day, but it definitely wasn’t the hero telling the heroine to “touch herself”. Later, he checked that she’d done it: “Did you touch yourself like we talked about?” (To me, this verged on nagging, but each to their own.) Add in all the other risqué scenes, including an artist’s pansexual orgy, and watching Bridgerton became less about “pearl-clutching” and more about what they were clutching.

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