The Buccaneers (2023)

Watchseries; If I could give this show less than one stars, I would. The characters are all one dimensional, vapid and lifeless. I wouldn't recommend this terrible TV show to my worst enemy. Conchita is the most childish character to ever grace TV; instead of talking to her husband about her struggles to integrate with English high society, she runs out into a storm in order to manipulate her husband into leaving his family and home and moving across the Atlantic where her immature behaviour is not only tolerated but praised for its modernity.

Nan, the boring lead who can barely keep your attention for more than 3 seconds and whose weak emotional range is limited to shrieking at the drop of a hat and looking like a constipated toddler when she is angry when she spoils one of the most important days for her sister, makes it all about her and is furious when her sister doesn't automatically forgive her.

The other two sisters whose names most of the audience won't remember and are only there to prop up the main characters are about as lively and entertaining as a funeral parade. This show fails as a period drama. It tries too hard to be like Bridgerton but doesn't even begin to compete. If you want to watch a fantastic period drama with amazing costumes, plots and characters, watch HBO's Gilded Age but if you manage to get through even one episode of this awful show, you deserve a medal.

If I could give this show less than one stars, I would. The characters are all one dimensional, vapid and lifeless. I wouldn't recommend this terrible TV show to my worst enemy. Conchita is the most childish character to ever grace TV; instead of talking to her husband about her struggles to integrate with English high society, she runs out into a storm in order to manipulate her husband into leaving his family and home and moving across the Atlantic where her immature behaviour is not only tolerated but praised for its modernity.

Nan, the boring lead who can barely keep your attention for more than 3 seconds and whose weak emotional range is limited to shrieking at the drop of a hat and looking like a constipated toddler when she is angry when she spoils one of the most important days for her sister, makes it all about her and is furious when her sister doesn't automatically forgive her.

The other two sisters whose names most of the audience won't remember and are only there to prop up the main characters are about as lively and entertaining as a funeral parade. This show fails as a period drama. It tries too hard to be like Bridgerton but doesn't even begin to compete. If you want to watch a fantastic period drama with amazing costumes, plots and characters, watch HBO's Gilded Age but if you manage to get through even one episode of this awful show, you deserve a medal.

The Buccaneers watchseries. While.it's great to see Christina Hendricks,( she is one star).....this drivel is pure embarrassment!!!!!

It is ,CLUELESS,Bridgerton, mixed in with modern dialog,attitudes and beneath a limited effort to be historically accurate...it's really obnoxiously stupid.

The acting is terrible, equal to the writing. This show wants to be clever so badly, it's just bad.

The cinematography is lovey,(that's the other star). Of course it must be visually stunning to distract you from everything else.

The effort it took to get through one episode and not gauge my eyes out,it's a miracle. I think I'm going vomit now and try to purge this last horror hour of my life.

Right, straight up, I love a room com, enjoy Bridgerton and the spin-offs, Poldark.. all that. But this is absolutely atrocious cross. Badly acted, poorly written. Seriously, it makes the very pedestrian Gilded Age look like Dickens. You'll know what you're in for after the first 5 minutes. It doesn't get any better. If this gets renewed for a second season I'll eat my hat. Unless it's already in the can. In which case, poor old Apple. They'll have to put up with nobody watching this. I feel sorry for the actors outside the irritating 'buccaneers' trying hard to deliver their lines through the crashing completely unnecessary modern soundtrack. Anyway, it's rubbish. Avoid.

Go watch the BBC 1995 mini series.

Cons: This Apple TV version is cringe worthy on so many levels. From the modern vocabulary, contemporary music attempts to the historical inaccuracies of lords and ladies parading around half-naked (unheard of in the 19th century) among each other. They dragged it out with unnecessary plot devices not in the original (Nan's parentage, the extra character of Mabel, just to name a few).

The showrunners saw Bridgerton, thought they'd do an update to this story and failed to meet the standards.

Pros: costumes, settings and filming locations. Watch for the eye candy. Don't expect much substance.

I've just completed the first episode and found myself having to Google this series to witness for myself if this is what it is supposed to be like.

It's a very awkward ensemble of actors, and themes. 19th century period wear and aesthetic meets 21st century conversation and informal, almost embarrassing actions given the context of the environment around it. These time periods have not been stitched together well, which is a shame because I wanted to like it.

This could probably have been an interesting drama if it were to reflect more accuracy of the time, or it could have been an unapologetic tween 'chick flick' about a bunch of friends finding boyfriends, it would have been boring and lacked substance but would at least be easier to watch than an attempt to combine the two.

Edith Wharton's unfinished 1938 novel gets a second chance as a TV series, no doubt aided by Marion Mainwaring's completion of the book in 1993, based on Wharton's notes. The literary world was split on the two versions, but were in total cahoots when chastising the 1995 BBC TV series.

Almost thirty years on and Apple TV give it a fresh life for the modern audience, but still set it in the original period of 1870, when New York social manners where on a decline (that part of it brilliantly captured on another 2022 TV series - The Gilded Age). So a group of very American kind-of-women travel to London with the excuse of finding the perfect mannered rich English husband (but really find themselves in the process!).

The first thirty minutes seemed to be doomed, with a messy and uninteresting lazy set-up, pandering to a younger hip audience. It is soon saved by Wharton's true passion and champion of women's dilemmas during the patriarchy rule of the 1870's. Unfortunately the filmmakers style leans more toward a lightweight soapy romantic drama that has a rather blunt edge, but still maintains your interest with its lavish production.