'The Buccaneers' really, really wants to woo 'Bridgerton' fans as Americans raid London
Review by Brian Lowry, CNN
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN
"The Buccaneers" premieres with three episodes on Wednesday, Nov. 8, on Apple TV+. The remaining episodes will be released weekly through Dec. 6.
Apple TV+’s The Buccaneers melds both Netflix’s Bridgerton and HBO’s The Gilded Age by showing American aristocracy alongside its British counterparts and watching the drama of the culture clash unfold. In the first episode of the series — based on an unfinished novel by Edith Wharton, and adapted for television by Katherine Jakeways — the opposing ideas about a woman’s duty and following her desires are front and center like they have been in many shows before it. Jakeways’s adaptation pulls modern dialogue and accents, as well as contemporary music (Olivia Rodrigo scored the tr...
Kristine Frøseth, Alisha Boe and Christina Hendricks star in an adaptation of Edith Wharton's unfinished final novel.
The Buccaneers might not quite work as a Wharton adaptation, but it's still a delicious period drama.