Daphne Bridgerton’s 15 Best Costumes from Season 1 of “Bridgerton”

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Phoebe Dynevor as "Daphne Bridgerton", Season 1 Bridgerton, Best Costumes Gowns, Dresses, and Outfits
Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton, Season 1 Bridgerton, Best Costumes
Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton in Netflix’s 2020 hit series,
“Bridgerton,” known for its sumptuous costume design.


What Is Bridgerton About?

On December 25, 2020, Bridgerton Season One dropped on Netflix. It’s a TV series from Shonda Rhimes and Chris Van Susen that is based on a series of books by Julia Quinn. Season one follows the first book, The Duke and I.

The Bridgertons are a well-known, long-established family at the upper echelons of London society. The eldest daughter of the family, Daphne, is the focus of season one of the show—especially her relationship with Simon Bassett, the Duke of Hastings (hence the title of the first book).

Bridgerton became a massive success soon after its release. In fact, the series was so popular that its costumes and sets inspired a new style known as “Regency-core.”

Be warned: In discussing the costumes, Season 1 plot elements will be spoiled.

This a repost of my own article originally on Hubpages

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Hypothetical Casting for La Esmeralda: Bruna Marquezine

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Since January 26th is canonically Esmeralda’s birthday (from the novel) let’s do a Hypothetical casting for the dancer herself. 

Bruna Marquezine, Fan-cast for Esmeralda The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Bruna Marquezine

Very often when I do these Fan-cast posts I tend to ground them in some kind already establish movie take for an adaptation. Like either a Live action Disney version (which is selfed) or Notre Dame de Paris (which is never going to happen). But for this post  let’s just take more by the novel interpretation and consider Bruna Marquezine for the role of Esmeralda.

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Kpop Demon Hunters Movie Review: A New Strategy

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Huntrix, Kpop Demon Hunters (2025)
Huntrix, Kpop Demon Hunters (2025)
Huntrix

Gearing up for a Takedown or is really it Golden?

I’m in a minority of people who heard the title of Kpop Demon Hunters and didn’t think it was a weird or silly title. In all honesty the initial concept of young ladies who fight demons and are also singers reminded me of a Japanese anime/video game/musical franchise which is similar but not the same. So I was initially endeared to this movie prior to seeing it even though I am not a fervent listener of Kpop. 

But is Kpop Demon Hunters actually a good movie? Does it really deserve all the praise or is it just slop hiding behind a glossy poppy veneer finish???

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Everything Changes and thus a Rebrand, It’s The Hunch Now

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Welcome to “The Hunch” because I can’t change the URL

This blog launched in late 2010 as “The Hunchblog of Notre Dame”. Originally intended to discuss, analyze, and review adaptations of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I had gotten into the novel about a year prior to the blog’s launch when I randomly watched Belle from Notre Dame de Paris on youtube. It was intriguing enough that I watched the rest of the musical that day. 

From there I read the book, and watched any of the movie versions I could get my hands on. This is very on track for me since I did the something with The Phantom of the Opera a few years prior.

 The original intent was that I would review the Hunchback works and move on to something else but I didn’t. Instead I have kept going and very early in the blog’s life I was reviewing other works like the Disney Sequels, Fairy-Tale/Fantasy movies, the entirely of the main show of  Once Upon a Time, and more recently Netflix’s Wednesday.

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The 10 Best White/Silver/Gray Costumes from Disney Animated Movies

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Silver, Gray or Whitish Disney Outfits,  NO Wedding Gown 

The Best White, Silver, Gray Costumes from Disney Animated Movies Cinderella's Silvery Ball Gown Cinderella (1950)
Cinderella

I’ve done many articles ranking costumes by colors from different types of movies (period, fantasy, etc). And for the most part they were hosted on Hubpages, long story super short, they will we be rolling out here in the near future.

But one type of movie I’ve neglected in those articles was animated movies.  So since it’s January and it’s cold and snowy, I thought let’s rank silvery, gray and/or white costumes from Disney Animated Movies that are not Wedding Gowns.  In the future we’ll rank non-Disney dresses because there are a lot great opinions out there. 

There actually not as many costume in this color palette as one might think but there is enough for a compelling list. Also an old rule I had was one character from one movie but not in this case, only requirements are a female costumes, not a wedding gown, from a Disney Animated Movie and mostly reads as silver, white, or grayish. Mostly cool shades are the name of the game but one be slight.    

There at least one weird take

List subject to change 

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Cassel’s Quasimodo Casting News – There is Some!

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This News is from August

Title Card for Richet's Quasimodo on Netflix
Richet’s Quaismodo


Back when I did a six month check-in on the Vincent Cassel’s Quasimodo project, I was HOPING that the casting would be announced and at that time I didn’t see any aside from an AI overview, which I have a healthy scepticism for. And again, at that time, I wanted to see if there was any truth to the info that AI was giving but when I tried to go back it didn’t offer up that same info. So I didn’t really go into that much other some speculation based on the stunt woman credits. (I hate AI.) 

HOWEVER!

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Statically The 10 Best Disney Villain Songs

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Disney has the Best Villain Songs

We all love Disney Villain songs. They are very often the best songs in the movie. But which Villain has the best of the Best song? Of Course that is a matter of preference. Or is it?


How was this List was Compiled?

Ranking the Best Disney Villain Song
Ranking the Best Disney Villain Song

The Stats Don’t Lie

This list ranks the 10 Best Disney Villain Songs. It was not based on my own opinions. Instead I looked at 40 different Villain ranked lists and found the mean score for each song based on the 1-10 ranking and how often the song appeared across the 40 list. So a song that appeared more often didn’t necessarily ranked higher but being on more of the lists did help. Only one of the songs featured on all 40 lists.

I tried to get lists that were as recent as I could and the only requirement was that the song was is currently under the Disney Studio and it about or sung by a villain. This means sequels, remakes and 20th Century Fox movies are all eligible. I’ll also include some honorable mentions at the end because why not.

So which of the Villains songs made cut?

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New Menken Interview: Song Breakdowns

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In a new interview with People, Alan Menken breakdowns some of his most iconic Disney songs with some behind the scene tidbits.

Alan Menken gave an Interview for People and discussed songs he wrote for Disney including Out There
Alan Menken as the piano, People Interview

The song that were covered in this interview include:

  • “Part of Your World” from The Little Mermaid
  • “Beauty and the Beast” from Beauty and the Beast
  • “Proud of Your Boy” from Aladdin (cut from the film but added to the Musical)
  • “A Whole New World” from Aladdin
  • “Colors of the Wind” from Pocahontas
  • “Out There” from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • “Go the Distance” from Hercules

So four I want Songs (counting Proud of your Boy,) three romantic songs and “Colors of the Wind” which doesn’t seem to fit snuggly into a musical song category and is regarded as ballad. 

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Highlighting a Few Blog Posts from the Past Year

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Some of my Favorite Posts of 2025

Clopin Topsy Turvy Disney Hunchback Notre Dame image picture
Clopin Topsy Turvy Disney Hunchback Notre Dame

All in all, thanks to reviewing Season One and Two of Netflix’s Wednesday I did post more consistently in 2025 than in 2024. Though thanks to my Disney marathon at the end of 2024 I didn’t really increase my total amount by too much. I posted 44 times in 2024 and 46 (including this post) this year. 

To close out the year I’m going to highlight some of my personal posts in 2025.

While I do like all my posts these are ones I just wanted to  highlight there are 12 or so  because I’m weak.

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Hunchback of Notre Dame 2025 News Round-Up  

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(An Overview of the big new pieces for Hunchback of 2025)

The post I had originally wanted to do for today was proving more daunting plus with some end-of-the-year time restrictions and the fact that I didn’t want to rush it, I’m rescheduling that one*.

Hunchback News Items for 2025
Hunchback News Items for 2025

So let’s do an end of the year News round up…which is more fitting for the end of the year.

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