THE BUCCANEERS SERIES
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| The series starts November 8th on Apple |
THE SMALL SCREEN
adaptation of Edith Wharton’s
unfinished final novel of the same name, has the story set in 1870s
London. It follows a group of fun-loving young American girls who
explode into the
tightly corseted London season and kick off an Anglo-American
culture clash as the land of the stiff upper lip is infiltrated by a
disregard for centuries of 
tradition. Sent to secure husbands and
titles, the buccaneers’ hearts are set on much more than that, and
saying “I do” is just the beginning! The cast does 
not boast a lot of famous names, but Christina Hendricks stars as Mrs. St. George, Josh Dylan as Lord Richard Marable, Guy Remmers as Theo,
Duke of Tintagel, Matthew Broome as Guy Thwarte and Barney Fishwick as Lord James Seadown. Check out the colourful trailer below and tell us what you think:
tightly corseted London season and kick off an Anglo-American
culture clash as the land of the stiff upper lip is infiltrated by a
disregard for centuries of 
tradition. Sent to secure husbands and
titles, the buccaneers’ hearts are set on much more than that, and
saying “I do” is just the beginning! The cast does 
not boast a lot of famous names, but Christina Hendricks stars as Mrs. St. George, Josh Dylan as Lord Richard Marable, Guy Remmers as Theo,
Duke of Tintagel, Matthew Broome as Guy Thwarte and Barney Fishwick as Lord James Seadown. Check out the colourful trailer below and tell us what you think:
Gosh! They are plain, poor things, and soooo Generation X, and the soundtrack sounds hopeless. Something tells me Apple won’t get far with its period dramae. Something tells me that I should drop Apple and get BritBox. At least to watch the original Buccaneers, where everybody was gorgeous. I remember when Nan (Carla Gugino) met Guy (Greg Wyse,) sparks flew, but these two. Bitch, please!
ReplyDeleteIn the original novel, there were no gay characters (although Wharton had problems with her real-life lover who was bisexual ad compulsively unfaithful) In the 90s version, Nan leaves the Duke after learning he is having a liaison with a stable boy. I wonder if they’ll retain that subplot here.
I think it looks even worse than I thought, not visually, but the cast all mediocre faces and tweensy expressions.
DeleteI do love the sound of dukes affair with the stable boy LOL
This is a big nope for me. I can’t do tweensy crap anymore. Allison wants me to watch shows like Bridgerton and I just can’t with that nonsense.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather strangle myself than watch Bridgerton, cannot stand the actors in it nor the whole travesty.
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