Love Is a Battlefield On 'Sanditon' Season 3's Fourth Episode

As we round the turn into Sanditon Season 3's final batch of episodes, the end of the series itself starts to feel very close indeed. Despite the show's origins as the story of one Miss Charlotte Heywood, our heroine is still little more than a cog in a much larger narrative engine in this fourth hour, one that seems desperate to match up any character that's ever spoken a single line onscreen with a prospective soulmate as quickly as possible.

This isn't necessarily a terrible thing, per se — I quite enjoy Samuel Colbourne and Lady Susan's playful banter, even though I'm not sure either character needs to be on the canvas this season — but it does mean that Charlotte has begun to feel like a secondary player in a story that was initially supposed to be primarily about her. And none of the storylines that have pushed hers aside are anywhere close to worth the loss. (I mean, was someone out there just dying to see Dr. Fuchs find love? I have questions for you!)

With Charlotte's wedding suddenly just two weeks away (how??), people are finally starting to notice that she's still yet to go home to her fiancee and the life she says she's looking forward to living. When asked, she insists she's staying in town to support Georgiana. Still, since her friend seems to be doing little more than drinking and partying with the Montroses and assorted random hangers-on that Henry seems to know, it's pretty apparent that she's just avoiding her fiancee.