'The Buccaneers' Trailer Sends a Squad of American Heiresses to London
Apple TV+ has released the first trailer for its forthcoming period drama The Buccaneers, a series that's "Inspired by" Pulitzer Prize winner Edith Wharton's unfinished final novel. And if this first footage is anything to go by, the series appears to be a colorful, vibrant reinterpretation of the original.
The story follows the adventures of a group of nineteenth-century American heiresses, rich daughters of new-monied New Yorkers whose families' wealth all came from successful industrial ventures rather than longstanding inheritance. Wealthy but not seen as particularly respectable in society's terms, the group head to England to seek status among the titled but genteelly impoverished British aristocracy, essentially exchanging their fortunes for titles and estates.
The girls are, naturally, extremely American about it all --- loud, anachronistically feminist, and seemingly incapable of understanding the intricacies of the British peerage. Set to a bright, poppy soundtrack that includes Olivia Rodrigo's "all-American bitch," the trailer makes it reasonably clear this series isn't be your mother's Edith Wharton.
