| Apple TV+ | Season Premiere Date: November 8, 2023 |
Summary:
The newest adaptation of Edith Wharton's unfinished novel of the same name from Katherine Jakeways follows a group of wealthy young American heiresses (Alisha Boe, Kristine Frøseth, Aubi Ibrag, Josie Totah, and Imogen Waterhouse) as they seek husbands at London's debutante season during the 1870s.
Genre(s):
Drama
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Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E8. Wedding of the Season
Air Date: December 13, 2023
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S1:E7. First Footing
Air Date: December 6, 2023
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S1:E6. It's Christmas
Air Date: November 29, 2023
Nov 2, 2023
Oct 30, 2023
It’s true, this isn’t your mother’s Buccaneers. And as adaptations go, it doesn’t bear much resemblance to the 1996 miniseries of the same name or, for that matter, the specifics of Wharton’s novel. But, much like the girls at its center, it’s awfully hard not to find yourself swept up in their loud, unapologetic good time.
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The Telegraph
Oct 30, 2023
Purists might recoil at the soundtrack, the slang and the sexiness, but all in all this is a fabulous way to reintroduce Wharton to the world. Especially when compared to Julian Fellowes’s lavish but dreadfully dull The Gilded Age, here is a period drama that has managed to hit the sweet spot between modern whimsy and actual intellect.
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The Guardian
Nov 8, 2023
It is also largely a romcom rather than a fully Whartonly astute piece of social and proto-feminist commentary. But we are allowed some nonsense now and again, and there is nothing more joyfully restorative than when it is done as well as it is here. It is enormous fun without being unresonant with today’s concerns.
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Nov 7, 2023
Taken on its own terms and not as an adaptation, "The Buccaneers" is a well-turned object, pretty to look at and evidently expensive. ..... As a drama it comprises a busy, somewhat tiring eight hours as it veers hither and yon — there is a lot of veering — and characters fall out of and back into accord with remarkable speed and regularity, to keep things interesting.
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Nov 8, 2023
Dec 4, 2023
Wharton’s emotional architecture—the unspoken, subtextual longing and frustration and ambition—is made dully explicit, in writing so leaden and staged that it feels ripped right out of Selling Sunset. .... Only if you think in terms of an algorithmic TV pitchbot does the show make sense.
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: November 8, 2023
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S1:E8. Wedding of the Season
Air Date: December 13, 2023
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S1:E7. First Footing
Air Date: December 6, 2023
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S1:E6. It's Christmas
Air Date: November 29, 2023
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S1:E5. Failed Betrayal
Air Date: November 22, 2023
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S1:E4. Homecoming
Air Date: November 15, 2023
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S1:E3. The Perfect Duchess
Air Date: November 8, 2023
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S1:E2. Women or Wives
Air Date: November 8, 2023
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S1:E1. American Poison
Air Date: November 8, 2023
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