'The Buccaneers' Has Officially Been Renewed for a Season 2
The adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Buccaneers just wrapped up its first season on Apple TV+, and viewers have been hoping the show will be renewed for a second season, and now it's official.
The streaming network announced the show will return, offering some hints as to what the buccaneers will get into in its sophomore season.
"Girls with money, men with power. New money, old secrets. A group of fun-loving young American girls explode into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash as the land of the stiff upper lip is infiltrated by a refreshing disregard for centuries of tradition. Sent to secure husbands and titles, the buccaneers’ hearts are set on much more than that, and saying “I do” is just the beginning …"
With the final episode of The Buccaneers out now, there's still more story that could be told. "We're desperate to spend more time in the world of these people and there's so much sort of opportunity for more story for them," creator Katherine Jakeways tells Town & Country. "I think at the moment, our heads are so much in this season and the joy hoping that everybody feels as passionate about it as we do, that we haven't sort of talked about it properly."
Yet, Jakeways adds, "We've inevitably, we've kind of gone oh, imagine this, or imagine that. But this is all theoretical conversation at the moment."
In season two, star Kristine Frøseth, who plays Nan, tells T&C that she hope the plot goes "back to [Edith Wharton's book]. I think Nan and Theo have a really interesting relationship in the book and I'd actually really like to see that translate into screen. They have an awful marriage, and just the subtleties of that and how their dynamic is forced, and how she secretly wants Guy. But she also miscarries a lot, and there's a lot of pressure for her to have a baby, to have a baby boy. So that's interesting."
The music team has started discussing their dreams for a possible second season. "I'm always gonna come at it from as big as I can off the bat," music supervisor Matt Biffa tells T&C (he secured Taylor Swift for the first season). "What might be easier for season two is that people will have seen season one and know what it's about. And if people see it and they're fans of the show then that just makes it easier."
He adds, "there were a couple of things that we really tried to make happen, particularly for the end of episode 8—one very big songwriter, one amazing artist that timing-wise we couldn't get the stars to align, I would love that to happen." In addition, Biffa says, "I would like to get Thom Yorke to write us a song as well actually, and I don't mind coming out and saying that!"
In addition, Biffa hopes to get Gracie Abrams back again. "We got a a song from her that was unreleased and then Stella [Mozgowa] put some new instrumentation on it," he says. But, Biffa shares, he did Zoom with Abrams to chat with her about doing something original. "The timings just didn't work," he says, "but she was such a sweetheart and it felt like she was really keen on maybe getting into a studio and trying on her Carole King trousers." He says, "I hope that we get a chance to do that if we get another season."
Music producer Stella Mozgowa says that "through the act of working on this show, we realized what it it was." She continues, "Once you have that foundation, you can only hope that it will grow and it will be more fully formed and essentially richer for the following seasons, if that happens." Mozgowa hopes, "we can dive deeper and be more adventurous and be more audacious because people understand what the show does and it has a place in the zeitgeist."
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