Is The Buccaneers the new Bridgerton Chronicles?

Netflix has it Chronicles of Bridgerton OKS, Gilded Age. Apple TV+ is now streaming from November 8th The Buccaneers (translate: The Buccaneers), series inspired by Edith Wharton’s unfinished novel (author: A time of innocence) Let’s be honest from the beginning. the recipe does not change. We find the series’ winning equation in the costumes, which are dusted by a flood of script, soundtrack and casting anachronisms.

The tone is heard from the first episode. Gossip girlwe are going to follow the daily lives of five young wealthy American women in the late 1870s in the midst of the industrial revolution.

The following: Blooming young women will cross the ocean to become women, the object of every desire of the doomed English aristocracy. The latter despises them as much as he wants their money, while the suitors dream of the title of duchess. A perverse relationship between fake England and fancy America on which the story is built. Of course, there is romance in the air, but also depravity, jealousy, betrayal, secrets… Not forgetting friendship in a great game of tested emotions (and a very classic love triangle), but also ambition; a story as old as time that is still a hit.

All this in the background worthy of a novel by the Brontë sisters. a castle on a rock overlooking a raging sea, a beach exposed to the four winds, mansions lost in the heart of the English countryside… We also think: that Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola, in the frenzy of parties and champagne that punctuates the daily life of the heroines. But also in certain camera movements, and for the gap between pop music and period series.

Swans and ducks

Casting-wise, apart from Christina Hendricks, no major title winners (Mad Men, Drive) but rather talents just waiting to be copied. Mia Tripleton, Kate Winslet’s “daughter”. And Sookie Waterhouse’s “sister” Imogen. The first inherited from his mother this mole encircling his upper lip, but also the talent to play english roses to blush The second is perfectly portrayed as the confident older sister who is overshadowed by her younger sister; The story of a swan and a duckling (not necessarily mischievous, but rather wild), with the youngest, Nani, remarkably played by Christine Fresset (an American-Norwegian actress who has seen The truth about the Harry Kebert case)

In this diamond character, the actress captivates and gives substance to this feminist who rejects the codes of a world she finds absurd, while unable to escape the hypnotic power of love. In the casting, we will also mention the presence of Alisha Boy, who was seen 13 reasons why. No surprises then, but a good mix of the genre’s staples between blue-flower romanticism and modernity.