Mr. Malcolm's List's Regency Era Has 1 Big Bridgerton & Austen Difference
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Mr. Malcolm’s List
Mr. Malcolm’s List’s Regency era has one big Bridgerton and Jane Austen difference. There are plenty of Regency period stories and the genre has been perfected over the years thanks to adaptations of Austen's Emma, Becoming Jane, and other notable films in the genre. Mr. Malcolm’s List — directed by Emma Holly Jones from a screenplay by Suzanne Allain, who adapted the script from her novel of the same name — joins a plethora of movies that are set in the Regency era, with all of its stringent elite society rules and dramatic tension.
Mr. Malcolm’s List shares an abundance of similarities with Jane Austen’s novels (and subsequent film adaptations) and Bridgerton, as well as several others. The setting, the miscommunication, the pining, a serious leading man who guards his heart above all else, a charming leading lady who can outwit said leading man, and the stuffiness of London’s high society, which is as much a character in Regency stories as anything else. However, the biggest difference — and one that sets it apart from Austen’s work and Bridgerton, in particular — is that Mr. Malcolm’s List’s plot is somewhat mean-spirited in that Julia Thistlewaite’s response to being slighted is not on par with the slight itself.
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Julia is embarrassed after discovering she’s literally become a caricature in a local society paper. This isn’t a bad thing — her reputation has taken a hit, after all, and she acts accordingly. However, her immediate response is to seek revenge on Mr. Malcolm, to publicly humiliate him like she perceives he did her, which is exacerbated after discovering a list of requirements he has for
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