‘The Buccaneers’ creator: ‘We knew we’d get compared’ to ‘Bridgerton’
nypost.comunfinished novel by Edith Wharton, set in 1870s London. The story follows a group of five young American women who arrive in high society in England to test their own luck on the marriage scene there, after one of their weddings to a Lord. “We started developing the show before ‘Bridgerton’ had been on.
By the time it was on, inevitably, we knew it would end up getting compared,” creator/ writer /producer Katherine Jakeways told The Post. “There were lots of brilliant things about ‘Bridgerton’ that we’d be delighted to be compared with, and lots of things we’re doing that are different.
It’s a different tale, because it’s got Americans in it, it’s the culture clash of Americans coming into this stiff English world. “But also, there is romance, but we wanted the beating heart of the whole thing to be the female friendships.
So, the real love story of our show is the relationship between the young women.”The young women include headstrong Nan St. George (Kristine Frøseth), her best friend Conchita Closson (Alisha Boe, “Thirteen Reasons Why”), who is getting married for love to English Lord Richard Marable (Josh Dylan).
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