Bridgerton and the 8 best romantic period dramas on Netflix

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5. Lady J

You know what they say about a woman scorned: “Hell hath no fury…” In Lady J, Madame de la Pommeraye personifies this.

When the Marquis des Arcis admits that his affection for her has fizzled, she’s devastated. Especially because she’s very much in love with him…or was, until that point. Instead of trying to win him back, she instead sets out to exact revenge on him using the beautiful Mademoiselle de Joncquières. But that calls to mind another saying, “He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves.”

Lady J is a French film set in the 1700s that very much calls to mind Dangerous Liaisons.

6. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Based on an epistolary novel (where characters write letters to each other) of the same name by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, Netflix’s adaptation of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society brings this unique story telling style to life.

Juliet Ashton (Lily James, who also plays the second Mrs. de Winter in Netflix’s Rebecca) travels to Guernsey after exchanging letters with various islanders who lived through the Nazi occupation of it during World War II. She makes lifelong friends with them and learns about Elizabeth McKenna and her ill-fated love affair with one of the German officers. While she’s there, she even finds love herself…both with a person and the island.