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New series “The Buccaneers” promises Regency flair in “Bridgerton” style
Kristine Frøseth plays one of the main roles in “The Buccanners”.
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“The Buccaneers” is strongly reminiscent of “Bridgerton” and is perfect for fans of Regency and period dramas. All information about the new AppleTV+ series.
It’s still a while before the long-awaited third season of the Regency hit series “Bridgerton” appears. The sequel should be out by the end of December 2023 at the earliest Netflix appear. A year and a half has passed since the release of the last second season.
“The Buccaneers” has a surprising number of parallels to “Bridgerton”.
A streaming competitor knows how to use the tough waiting time for itself – and at the beginning of November delivers a new Regency-style production that is strikingly reminiscent of Shonda Rhimes’ Netflix hit. In “The Buccaneers”, young, fun-loving women once again plunge into the ball season of 19th-century Great Britain. But this time it’s not the ladies of London’s high society who are ready to marry, who are the main attraction of the male marriage society at the events, but a group of five young American women who have come especially to have fun with the city’s attractive bachelors – and at the same time to find a man for life.
The five Americans really mix up the British ball season.
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It is logical that this cannot go well. It doesn’t take long for an Anglo-American culture war to erupt between the British and American women’s fronts – for the female members of the British bourgeoisie in particular do not like the behavior of their overseas competitors, the “Buccaneers”, at all. The young, wealthy US ladies are not only stirring up the marriage market, but are also disregarding centuries-old British traditions, while – in addition to having a lot of fun – they are pursuing the goal of securing recognized British husbands and their titles of nobility.
The first images of the AppleTV+ production give promising insights into the implementation of the series: an authentic stage and costume design and attractive main characters in front of a historical backdrop could easily pass as production images of “Bridgerton” itself.
“Anglo-American Kulturkampf”
The cast of the Regency series is also impressive: “Mad Men” actress Christina Hendricks, “Dead Girls Don’t Lie” star Alisha Boe and Kristine Frøseth (“A Like Alaska”) are named as cast. Also starring trans actress Josie Totah and “Mamma Mia!” star Josh Dylan, directed by “The Magic of Nanny” creator Susanna White.
Like the Netflix competition, “The Buccaneers” is based on a novel. Pulitzer Prize winner Edith Wharton wrote the book of the same name – her last work – in 1937, but she died in the process of writing and the book was published incomplete in 1938. At the end of the century, the story about the “buccaneers” was filmed for the first time in a BBC mini-series.
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Almost 30 years later, Apple TV+ picks up the story again and gives it the unique “Bridgerton” flair that we only know from the productions of Rhimes. According to the official series description, the creators promise: An entertaining “Anglo-American culture clash” between the “Buccaneers” and the London elite, in which “new money” and “old secrets” will play an important role.
It starts on November 8th, 2023 with three episodes on AppleTV+, with a new episode being published every week until December 13th.
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