Darlings, gossip round The Buccaneers Season 2 is swirling after a latest addition to the ensemble. With a enjoyable and on-brand Instagram video that includes the forged, Apple TV+ introduced that Leighton Meester will be part of the acclaimed drama’s second season. The video exhibits Meester’s character – and the opposite girls – in costume, nevertheless it doesn’t affirm who she is going to play.
Whereas that data continues to be beneath wraps, Apple TV+ does share a synopsis for the second season, which reads as follows:
“Now the Buccaneers are not the invaders – England is their residence. Actually they’re virtually working the place. Nan is the Duchess of Tintagel, probably the most influential lady within the nation. Conchita is Girl Brightlingsea, heroine to a wave of younger American heiresses. And Jinny is on each front-page, wished for the kidnap of her unborn baby. All the ladies have been pressured to develop up and now should battle to be heard, as they wrestle with romance, lust, jealousy, births and deaths… themes consuming all girls of any age, it doesn’t matter what yr it’s. Final time we bought a style of England. This time we’re in for a veritable feast.”
The Buccaneers is impressed by Pulitzer Prize-winning creator Edith Wharton’s unfinished closing novel of the identical identify. The Apple TV+ sequence that sees “a gaggle of fun-loving younger American ladies exploded into the tightly corseted London of the 1870s” made a three-episode premiere in November 2023. The sequence stars Kristine Frøseth as Nan St. George, Alisha Boe as Conchita Closson, Josie Totah as Mabel Elmsworth, Aubri Ibrag as Lizzy Elmsworth, and Imogen Waterhouse as Jinny St. George. Emmy Award winner Christina Hendricks stars as Mrs. St. George, with Mia Threapleton as Honoria Marable.
The second season additionally stars Man Remmers as Theo, Duke of Tintagel, Matthew Broome as Man Thwarte, Josh Dylan as Lord Richard Marable, and Barney Fishwick as Lord James Seadown. With all these roles crammed, one character looms giant from the primary season who has but to make her on-screen debut on The Buccaneers – Nan St. George’s organic mom.
Nan discovers that Patricia St. George isn’t her organic mom in The Buccaneers Season 1, Episode 1, “American Poison,” and the doubt that data instills in her core id has ripple results on her – and the opposite characters – all through the remainder of the season.
Nan learns the reality from her sister Jinny when Jinny is upset with Nan and lets it slip out after maintaining the possibly scandalous secret for 17 years. By The Buccaneers Season 1, Episode 2, “Ladies or Wives,” Jinny reinforces the societal impacts of Nan telling anybody about her organic mom, because it’s scandalous to be born out of wedlock within the 1800s. She tells Nan, “You say your previous doesn’t matter now, however your future, it gained’t exist.”
From there, particulars about Nan’s organic mom step by step unfold. In that very same episode, Jinny tells Nan that she found the reality in a letter that exposed Patricia and Tracy St. George purchased Nan from her organic mom. Nevertheless, the girl’s id stays a thriller to Jinny. By The Buccaneers Season 1, Episode 3, “The Good Duchess,” Nan decides she will be able to’t transfer ahead in her relationship with Theo (or Man, as a result of there’s a love triangle between the three) or in her position as a future Duchess with out chatting with her mom.
The Buccaneers Season 1, Episode 4, “Homecoming,” is when that confrontation happens, and it’s one of many first season’s greatest sequences. Kristine Frøseth and Christina Hendricks give extremely weak performances whereas Nan and Patricia have an extended overdue dialog. The present permits Nan to say trustworthy to her but hurtful issues to Patricia, like “I’m no one to you. You’ve got by no means been my mom.” Earlier than it resolves the battle between Nan and Patricia, her father, Tracy, makes the wedge bigger by preserving his character in Nan’s eyes.
In a shocking show of audacity, Tracy tells his daughter that he “can’t be blamed” for dishonest when a younger lady exhibits him consideration as he’s gotten older. He speaks fondly of Nan’s organic mom however can’t recall any specifics – solely that she died shortly after giving delivery to Nan. The top of “Homecoming” teases that as the alternative of the reality, which comes again to hang-out him by the season finale. Within the meantime, Patricia tells Nan, “I could not have carried you in right here (her abdomen). However from the second I noticed you, I promise you, I’ve carried you in right here (her coronary heart).” That change heals a giant wound of their relationship.
Alternatively, it deepens the wound between Patricia and Tracy, who continues his flirtations (not less than) with youthful girls. Patricia says she desires a divorce in The Buccaneers Season 1, Episode 7, “First Footing.” She tells him, “I’ve all the time deserved extra. However I’ve all the time put my ladies first. And regardless of how small you made me really feel, I made positive they had been the tallest within the room. And now they’re letting me stand on their shoulders the place you may by no means attain.” That distance is created by the titles Nan and Jinny obtain via their marriages – particularly, Nan changing into the Duchess of Tintagel as soon as she marries Theo.
In the meantime, Nan makes her parentage public – to the individuals celebrating the vacations together with her – in The Buccaneers Season 1, Episode 6, “It’s Christmas.” She is aware of “motherhood is far more than blood” now and refuses to really feel disgrace due to her father’s actions. “And that is perhaps American, and that is perhaps brash. And possibly I ought to’ve signaled it with a glove and hoped that nobody would see. However I’m proud to have survived the revelation. I’m happy with my mom. And I’m proud to be… I’m proud to be,” Nan provides. That newfound confidence is shifting to see. Nonetheless, it realistically falters.
Some a part of Nan believes others will all the time see her as her “father’s disgrace,” however the title of Duchess provides her legitimacy and respect in society. That title additionally provides her mom the steadiness to depart her marriage. It additionally has the safety to save lots of her sister from an abusive marriage.
However can it save her from a confrontation Nan by no means imagined attainable? Since midway via Season 1, Nan believes her organic mom is lifeless. The Buccaneers Season 1, Episode 8, “Wedding ceremony of the Season,” reveals the girl is alive – and he or she’s contained in the citadel the place Nan is marrying Theo. Fortunately, Apple TV+’s Instagram confirmed The Buccaneers Season 2 went into manufacturing in June 2024. So, it’s solely a matter of time earlier than the sequence reveals if Leighton Meester’s unnamed character is identical lady within the citadel. Finally, the anticipation round this character makes it appear very seemingly.
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