I didn’t like the “updated” version of The Buccaneers on Apple TV Plus at all because they copied the “modernized” structure of Bridgerton to revisit Edith Wharton‘s classic. To be fair, the series wasn’t alone in this style: The Great and The Serpent Queen did the same, but the results were very different. Still, somehow the series got a second season.

Since the end of last year, new faces have started to circulate on the scene, the most celebrated being the participation of Leighton Meester, the eternal Blair Waldorf from Gossip Girl, in a role that has not yet been revealed. The most likely? It will be the heroine’s mysterious biological mother, Nan (Kristine Froseth). Could it be? Initially, I was betting on another candidate, but this will likely be the version now.

It doesn’t matter, really! The series will hardly recover from the garbage it was in its debut. Inspired by Wharton’s unfinished novel that portrays a group of young American girls who are in Europe to marry English noblemen. The writer was inspired by the story of Consuelo Vanderbilt, yes, the same one that also inspired Downton Abbey and now The Gilded Age. But Edith died before finishing the book, which caused a big problem. There was a plan for how the plot would conclude, but the truth is that without her, we don’t know how it could have been.

The fact that the current version wanted to “modernize” what was supposed to be a classic only made things worse. As Apple TV Plus announces, now the Buccaneers are no longer “invaders” because “England is their home”. Nan is the influential Duchess of Tintagel, and Conchita (Alisha Boe) still has her marital problems, but she is a heroine for a wave of young American heiresses looking for marriages that can give them titles of nobility. And Jinny (Imogen Waterhouse) is wanted and considered the kidnapper of her unborn child. It’s already making me sleepy.

Still following the synopsis, all the girls are more mature and now “have to fight to be heard, while battling romance, lust, jealousy, births and deaths”. God…

The addition of actor Greg Wise to the cast also generated curiosity. He worked on the adaptation of the book in 1995, playing Guy Thwaite to Carla Gugino‘s Nan. It is not yet known who he plays, but there will certainly be some reference to the old role.

The cast has been posting behind-the-scenes photos, but nothing exactly revealing. The result should be available on the platform in the second half of the year. It will be torture, but I will follow. I think!

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