Warning: Spoilers for The Buccaneers season 1, episode 8!
Season 1 The Buccaneers may have come to a close, but Edith Wharton’s story remains unfinished. The finale of Apple TV+’s period drama, adapted by Katherine Jakeways and adorned with lyrically apropos Taylor Swift songs, bore witness to Nan St. George’s (Kristine Frøseth) wedding to the Duke of Tintagel and left many of its characters reeling from the aftermath. Her best friend Conchita Closson (Alisha Boe), for example, rode the high of becoming independent from her husband’s parents only to face the fact that her own family has now lost their fortune.
The Buccaneers may bear similarities to Bridgerton in tone and style, but the backbone of Wharton’s incomplete novel was the class disparity between its American heroines and their British beaus. Season 1 has explored that and more as it introduced the audience to its free-spirited heroines: Nan, Conchita, Jinny (Imogen Waterhouse), Lizzy (Aubri Ibrag), and Mabel (Josie Totah). Nan’s love triangle may be decided for now, but she still has many questions about her parentage that must be left for season 2 to uncover.
The Buccaneers Season 2: Will It Happen? Everything We Know
Apple TV’s adaptation of Edith Wharton’s classic unfinished novel The Buccaneers is already impressing viewers, and here are details about season 2.
Screen Rant interviewed Kristine Frøseth and Alisha Boe about the ending of The Buccaneers season 1, Nan and Conchita’s parallel journeys, and their hopes for a potential season 2.
Kristine Frøseth & Alisha Boe Talk The Buccaneers
Screen Rant: Kristine, I did not think it was possible to do a love triangle where I care equally about all sides. What is it about these two men that you think pulls Nan in these two different directions?
Kristine Frøseth: I personally think that she’s a bit lost right now. Theo represents safety. She could become a Duchess, she could have this new identity, start a new life. Nothing ever has to be talked about her illegitimacy. She can just wander off in fairy tale land. Guy Thwaite is more her older version, and that’s where the actual adventurous, playfulness, that’s more of, I would say, the real love. That’s where it lies. But they both offer something. Something good.Alisha Boe: Something exciting. And they’re not bad-looking either.
Alisha, I love Conchita. She is a queen in my eyes. But she’s had to fight to stay the life of the party. Can you talk about how she’s grown or evolved in this marriage to Richard, especially in the face of his very stifling parents?
Alisha Boe: You meet Conchita, and I think you witness her come into becoming a woman. I mean, within the first two episodes she’s married, pregnant, and gives birth, and then has to navigate living with her in-laws in a different country. And I think in the very beginning before all this happened, she was all about her girlfriends, being the life of the party, and really having no cares in the world because she had no cares in the world. then all of a sudden all these responsibilities are thrust upon her.She has a bit of a broken wing, let’s say. She’s been through the wringer. And the world has beat her up a bit. But you definitely see that she still has the light of Conchita at the end. But I think you just see a more slightly mature person. And I hope, if we can explore it further, hopefully, she finds more of that joy through her reconnection with her friends; falling back in love with Richard and strengthening that marriage.
Hopefully, we get more, because when I saw the finale, I was like, “What? Hello?” On that note, what would you like to see for Nan in season 2?
Kristine Frøseth: I’d like to see her return to her sense of self and get back on track to where we first met her. And if there is a marriage, I’m very curious as to how that marriage is going to play out. And if there will be any more revealing of the news [of her birth]. Who’s her mother? And what’s that dynamic going to look like?
About The Buccaneers
The Buccaneers are the daughters of America’s new rich — beautiful and untameable, despite the best efforts of England’s finest governesses, they are on their way to London to snare themselves an aristocrat, low in funds but high in class, to make a perfect match.
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The Buccaneers
Based on the incomplete novel by Edith Wharton, The Buccaneers is a historical drama that follows a group of American women who arrive in London during the late 1800s. Bringing about a clash over the old ways versus the new, the American women, known as “The Buccaneers,” shake up the status quo as they seek love, money, and better tomorrow.
- Release Date
- November 8, 2023
- Cast
- Guy Remmers , Simone Kirby , Matthew Broome , Francesca Corney , Kristine Froseth , Alisha Boe , Josie Totah , Christina Hendricks , Josh Dylan , Aubri Ibrag , Imogen Waterhouse
- Genres
- Drama , History
- Rating
- Not Yet Rated
- Seasons
- 1
- Season List
- The Buccaneers – Season 1
- Story By
- Edith Wharton
- Writers
- Katherine Jakeways , Roanne Bardsley
- Streaming Service(s)
- Apple TV+
- Directors
- Richard Senior , Susanna White
- Showrunner
- Katherine Jakeways
