Bombastic lace, impossible hairstyles and headdresses, rococo furniture, corsets that suffocate and baggy inheritances that liberate. That is the framework of ‘The Buccaneers: aristocrats for love’, the new premiere of Apple TV + that It will start airing on November 8. followed by a new episode every Wednesday until the end of the first season.
And behind the script, written by humorist Katherine Jakeways, hides an original idea from a high-flying writer. Named an honorary Doctor of Yale University, writer Edith Wharton wrote such absolute classics as ‘The Age of Innocence‘ (Pulitzer Prize), ‘Ethan Frome’ or ‘Summer‘. ‘The Buccaneers’ was his last novel, posthumous and unfinished. It was completed by Marion Mainwaring and first published in 1993.
The buccaneers: aristocrats for love
Las Bucaneras depicts a group of young women with money in the shadow of men with power. In the London of the 1870s, bound by strict discipline, these girls decide stand up to a stagnant system of centuries-old traditions.
The cast of these gala buccaneers is made up of Kristine Frøseth (‘Looking for Alaska’) as Nan St. George, Alisha Boe (‘Thirteen Reasons Why’) as Critics Choice Award nominee ‘Conchita Closson’ Josie Totah (‘Saved by the Bell’) as ‘Mabel Elmsworth’, aubri ibrag (‘Dive Club’) as ‘Lizzy Elmsworth’, Imogen Waterhouse (‘wicked game‘) as ‘Jinny St. .George’ and Mia Treapleton (‘I am’) as ‘Honoria Marable’.
A cast that is supported by Christina Hendricks playing the lady ‘Mrs. St. George’ and another handful of stars like Josh Dylan (‘Allies’) or Guy Remmers playing the role of the Duke of Tintage. The creative team, however, is entirely female, both directing and writing, with British editor Beth Willis executive producing.
We’ll see how this fun story works that starts in the seaside resort of Saratoga and takes its characters through all kinds of unforeseen events. while they fight to obtain their titles and not lose their ancestral heritage… without giving up on lovethe true narrative engine of a novel that also does not renounce a very bold critical look.
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