The Americans may have “conquered” the nobles, but if they thought that the “purchase” brought autonomy or even individuality, they were wrong. May the day Nan Saint-George, who is in the middle of an involuntary (?) love triangle between her, Theo, and Guy, where the male competition is taking on complex colors. Jinny, James, and Lizzy are the other no less toxic trio in The Buccaneers, where every time the young people are left alone – which happens frequently – there is trouble. Who said love is easy?

Let’s go to the least confusing part of the episode. After a weekend in New York, they are all back in the English countryside, enjoying life like modern young people let loose in uninhabited castles. Let’s forget that a trip like this would take at least months between continents and days to the countryside, but we only have 8 episodes, we have to consider that in the 1880s, even without a plane, there was no time to waste. The “gang” is now complete as the host, Guy, tries to explain the British tradition of celebrating November 5th and the near explosion of the British Parliament. Everything becomes a metaphor for what these hormonal teenagers are experiencing.

Conchita and Richard are secretly separated. She has been disappointed in her husband who is one in New York (and in the country) and someone else when he is in London. She got tired of trying to deal with duality, even though she loved her husband and didn’t even suspect his past with Nan’s nanny. A fact, in fact, thrown at the end of the last episode and ignored 100% in the next. Mabel and Honoria take advantage of their relative invisibilities to embark on a hidden romance that will continue to unfold.

I’m starting to have problems with The Buccaneers. I didn’t find a single character that I sympathized with, I don’t think the series embraced its determination to be a sort of Bridgerton nor is it close to The Gilded Age, thus becoming almost a meaningless sequence of hysterical teenagers running around drunk and lost. They are never still, they are never dealing with anything without theatrical outings, without tears, without tension. Narcissistic, irresponsible, and bordering on innocence. Only Mabel has plans, motives, and actions. The rest seems like noise.

Lizzy’s story – inspired by a real character – will take a better turn, but for now, she seems to be more obsessed with Jinny than the trauma she experienced with James. That James is a sadist is perfect for the plot, even if it is silly. The two of them ‘running away’ from him, always languid in their conversations about being married and what they want, it seems like platonic love. And the response from Lizzy, who was sexually abused, that the shame lies with the abuser and not hers is almost dangerously simplistic. If we are going to address sexual abuse, we need respect and care for the topic. I found the conversation between her and Guy in the kitchen, scraping the batter from a clearly empty cake, almost criminal. At that moment I started to like Lizzy and Guy more than Guy and Nan.

Guy and Nan. The main couple of the story, with a cute beginning, a slip-up when we saw that he was armed and looking for a rich American bride to pay the house bills, but that he actually fell in love with her, only to see that Nan was no fool. there was nothing. While Guy suffered from his own duplicity, she bumped into Theo without suspecting that he was a duke, the two fell in love with each other and he wasted no time in declaring himself. Impulsively, Nan agreed to marry him, but because at that time people got to know each other after they were married. Now she’s torn because she knows that Guy was actually about to propose to her and Guy is more charming… What she’s curious about is seeing Theo’s transformation. His shyness and even apparent humility are going down the drain now that he finds himself threatened. He is possessive, aggressive, and jealous. Will he change and become the antagonist? It looks good. But it still feels manipulated, like lazy storytelling. See how we continue!

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