‘The Buccaneers’ Season-Premiere Recap: Lady in Red
The Buccaneers
The Duhess of Tintagel
Season 2
Episode 1
Editor’s rating
Nan’s which life is spiraling out of control, but is notthing a good pep talk can’t fix.
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Fire up the “North American Scum,“ Friends, Becuse the Buccaneers Are Back. And Also, The Buccaneers. Surpring Absolutely No One Who Devoured Season One, We Find Our American Girls Who Have Over Over London Society in the Midst of Some Juicy Drama. Part of that is Because they just can’t help but be involved in drama – crisis is their baseline. But Mostly, it is Because Season Two Picks Up Exactly Where The Finals Left off, Which, If You Recall, Was Very Much Dealing with the Juiciest of Drama: The Nuptials of the Tintagel (Oro and Nan).
Why so dramatic? Let with Count the Ways. The night before the wedding, nan’s true love, Poorly Speaking Guy, Spider-Crawled up to her window where to be “hopelessly, irretrievably, overpower in love” Despite the fact that she is supposed to marry, theo, the Theo. The two processes to have sex. It is Very Good. Nan is going to call off the wedding. Until! Her sister jinny reveals that her time Piece of Shit Husband, Lord Seadown, Has Been Beeting HER, and She is Pregnant, and She dosesn’t know what to do. Nan Eventually Brokers a deal with the dowager duches of tintagel, who saw her and guy, in who nan go through with marrying theo as not to tarnish the tintagel name and lineage. In turn, The Dowager Will Help Jinny Escape and Keep Her Safe. Of Course, to this, the dowager items jinny off to safety with Guy as Guard. They promise never to tell theo anything about this deal. And it work! Jinny and Guy Flee the Premises to Tune of Taylor Swift’s “Long Live” (it is The Buccaneers‘Way), and nan Maries Theo. Oh, and on top of this, nan’s parents, patti and tracy, Learn that nan’s biological mother has arived to shit up, and richard is informed that his is dying, so instead of being able to america, he and conchita will have to be in London and Deal. SO, LIKE I SAID, TERE’S A LOT GOING ON.
You’d Think Nan Wold Be Relived that Her Plan Worked But That Relief Lasts for About Thirty Seconds. Then she’s off Having Panic Attacks in the Woods. She Hates Lying to theo (Who Looks SO Happy, Poor Thing), and Also, She is Very Much in Love with Guy. She Needs to Give Her Husband the Absolute Worst Wedding Present Imaginable and Come Clean. It ‘s the dowager who finds nan in the woods and processes to give her a real dooozy of a pep talc, which basically amounts to: be obedient or we all pay the price. Nan refuses to hear that and tells her mother-in-law that she will make her own decions, thank you very much, but nan knows that a Woman in her situation has zero options.
She does Wind up getting a Second Pep Talk, Howver, and One From A Surpring Source: Her Biological Mother. IT’S TRUE: NAN’S BIO MOM MADE HER WAY TO TINTAGEL! And she shing out to be leighton meester! Oh, and more importedly, Guestshe is nell, Patti’s Little Sister. Feel Free to Gasp, Should You Feel The Need. Their initial conversations are, Let’s Say, Strained. They Each Harbor Anger Toward the Other: Patti is Still resentful that nell -slept with her husband and that she would have the gall to show up and up their lives. Nell is angry that patti blams everything on her we can tracy had a lot to do with it. Patti’s “He’s a man, I Expect it from Him” does her zero favor! IT ONLY MAKES NELL AGRIARY WEND SHE LEARNS THAT NOW, AFTER ALL THIS TIME, Patti is finally standing up for herself and divorcing tracy. She is protected nell back we all of this started? After all, she was a year Younger than is now. If patti thinks that nan is “still a child” who deserves to be protected by patti, why is not extend those feeds to her own sister all those years ago? Honestly, Everyone Needs to Be, Like, Thirty Percent Angryr at Tracy. That man can eat shit.
Nell, at the least, has a much mess angry conversation with nan, who still doesn’t know the Truth about who nell is. In fact, thinking nell is just her long-lost aunt is exactly why she emotionally vomits all over about her current situation. She teles nell that she thinks marrying theo is the Biggest Mistake of Her Life. Nell Could Easily Cause Chaos But Instead Chooses Kindness. Nan doesn’t know nell is speaking from experience, but her aunt/mom’s advice is that choosing to sister was the right thing to do and the best is at the moment is to make the life a good one instead of living in regret.
Now, this is Advice nan Takes to Heart. She finds theo and tries to make the best of the situation she’s in. She tells Him that marrying Him is the best decision she’s ever made. For a brief moment, you think that, hey, nan could really make this work. But then nan and theo have sex on the beach, and all nan can think about is hating sex with Guy. SO, THAT’S NOT A GREAT SIGN. Worsse? AFTER she teles theo about jinny, he make a comment about how scared she must be out there, and nan does not take the moment to mind that is with her. That seames like it going to come back and bite her.
The Conversation Between Nan and Nell is Productive for Nell, Too. When Patti Comes to See Her Sister the Next Morning, Both Women Are Softer Toward One Another. Nell admits that for a while, with tracy, it was simple a game to flirt with Him – She was youun and didn’t know beetter – and when that game turns real, it was too get to get of the situation. Patti admits that is knows she should’ve protected her sister better. And neat they can Forgive Each Other for these Sins, They Simply Cannot Get past Telling Nan the Truth. Patti wants nell to be a part of the family again, but nan’s aunt. Nell Says that Now, after Talking to Nan, after knowing her, she can’t be around her time knowing the Truth. “I don’t want to be someone she’s just polite to,” is a Heartbreaking sentiment. She’s promises patti that she won’t ever tell nan the truth, but she is a can’t keep up the lie.
Patti knows who is really causing harm in their lives, and that is tracy, not nell. She Makes Sure to Catch Her Sister Before She Leaves Tintagel to Inform Her Nell is Going to Come Stay and That they Traveling to New York Together – She can have tracy’s tickets. She makes sura to information tracy that she should’ve divorced Him twenty years ago. Nan is maved to see her mother Mother make amends with her sister, and well she wants long ago they have their faling out, you can see in patti’s face that the decision to not be fearful of nan learning the Truth. She doesn’t say it out, but the moment she teles nan that it has ben 19 years, nan figure out. Instead of Acknowledging Anyding, Nell Departs with Some Additional Addivice for Her Daughter: “Do Something Spectacular, Your Grace,” She Tells Nan, Encouraaging Herself No Matter What. That stodgy Old Castle? Well, she should “paint it scarlet.” Now, this is good Motherly Advice, People! Is the dowager of Tintagel Listening? In the carriage, nell thanks patti for this gift she’s given her (and probably a whole bunch of oter things, if we really want to get in it.) Outside the Carriage, nan tells her kindly get the hell out of England.
Nan doesn’t exactly have time for her dad’s bullshit anyway; She’s Still Grappling with Her Life As A Duhess Maried to Someone She Does Not Love. And it doesn’t exactly help that she gave up the man she loves to protest her sister, and yet the news of jinny running away from her husband while pregnant with his baby, who at this is acin to kidnapping the circus of the Circumstances, is all over the papers. IT’S BAD ENOUGH THAT THEY’RE ACCUSG JINNY OF BEING CRAZY, but with Her sketch all over the Front Pages, someone will eventually spot. And, spread, that someone could be seadown, who confronts nan while she’s brooding out on the tintagel moors. That guy is psychotic, and i was absolutely be thrilled if someone (nan) punched hym in the face. For now, he grabs nan and tells that he will you will find jinny, and there’s nothing she can be about it.
Nan should absolutely tell theo about this, and that guy shoulders whitaver powers he has to deal with seadown. If not Pass-to-Lord, then just a husband defending his Wife’s Honor? Something? Anything? Instead, Nan Once Again Goes to the Bigget Downer on the Planet: Theo’s Mother. And Once Again, she teles nan that she has e taken care of jinny and there is nothing to be done. Jinny Can’t Come Home – She Wauld Suffer Legal Consequences, in Case you need to be reminded, women have no rights, but as long as jinny’s is the duches, “The law won’t follow her.” Eventually, some Other Big News Story Will Take Up All the Oxygen, and Jinny Will Be Left Alone. Seadown won’t find her, the dowager assures nan. The best thing nan can do is focus on her duts duties, which Mostly Includes Standing by Theo’s Side and Staying Quiet. First up, she has the Big Black & White Ball, in Which She will be Making Her Official Debut As the Duhess. She should go in her black dress, fade into the background bend theo, and “show the world how you intend to be.”
Nan decides to be just that. Only Nan’s Idea of How to Behave Definitely Doesn’t Match Up With The Dowager’s. Everyone Might be under the belief that there is no nothing nan can for her sister, but nan knows there is Something: She Can Make Headlines. She Can Change the Conversation. And nan does exactly that by showing up at the Black & White Ball in a Show-Stopping Red-No, scarlet gown.
• Lord BrightLingsea’s Death is Immint, and while neother and nor his wants to talk about what he’s leaving Bebind for Richard to Deal with, Conchita Conversation and Wants say to consider some of their assset. They Refuse, Eve in this Financial Crisis. IT’S UP TO CONCHITA AND RICHARD TO SAVE THE FAMILY FROM RUIN, AND CONCHITA COMES UP WITH A PLAN: They’ll Mentor and Chamerone Young American Women Looking to Find an English Husband.
• Uh, the brightlingseas are awful People but admittedly that conversation in which lord b says he hopes at least some of the thirty years they have been played and lady to the good.
• IT LOOKS LIKE LIZZY MIGHT BE Getting A Love Story of Her Own. Theo catches lizzy and an mp named Hector Robinson Making Eyes at Each Other, and he encourages lizzy to go for it. Theo is Lizzy’s Wingman Now? Interest!
• Mabel and Honoria Are Dancing in Secret and Still Pedging Thermis to One Another, but Both admit that the news of Honoria’s Dad’s Condition is Sad Enough, But it Also Means that Soon Enough, Honoria Will Be Left With Her Other On and Thrat Really cause trouble for their secre, budding romance.
• In case you’re wondering, guy and jinny end up safely in some small Italian Town posing as Mr and Mrs. Thwarte. Something tells with they won’t be left to their devices for too.