Where We Left Everyone After 'Bridgerton' Season 1

Genre TV series as lush prestige adaptations may not have started on Netflix, but they have become the streaming service's bread and butter in the last five years. Still, romance — especially period drama romance — was still considered the purview of the middle-to-highbrow TV world, your local PBS stations, or small-time cable channels like Ovation. Then came Bridgerton, turning everything TV producers thought they knew on its ear. Based on the most popular series of novels from Julia Quinn's interconnected regency universe, the series was one of the most-watched series on Netflix.

The Bridgerton TV series seems to be going in the same order as the books. Season 1 was based on the opening novel of the Bridgerton series, The Duke and I, which introduces the alphabetically-named titular family. Like the novels, the year is 1813, and eldest daughter Daphne (fourth born, since her name starts with "D") is making her debut into society. Her eldest brother, Anthony, the current Viscount Bridgerton since their father's untimely death a decade back, is determined to make her a good match. However, her mother, the Dowager Viscount Lady Violet, hopes her daughter will find love the same way she did.

With the second season arriving this weekend, nearly a year and a half since Season 1's remarkable debut, let's run down what you may have forgotten.