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Spoilers ahead forWedding of the Season,the season finale ofThe Buccaneers.
Apple TV+sThe Buccaneersis a series that runs on the twin engines of literary adaptation and coming-of-age soap.
When those two engines pulled together this season,The Buccaneerswas pitch-perfect melodrama.
(Generally this means that she wants to make out with her husband in public spaces.
Her husband, meanwhile, cant quite escape his longstanding sexual relationship with his childhood nanny.)
Structurally, it toys with both sides of its dual background.
And then and then the last 30 seconds ofthe last episodehit, andThe Buccaneerschooses (narrative) violence.
Not only that, Jinny is now pregnant and shes afraid for her child.
But its more than just that.
Its very terrible, and its also perfectly good enough jumping-off point for a second season of this show.
This would all be fine.
ButThe Buccaneerscant leave well enough alone.
Instead, Jinny and Nans mother(played by Christina Hendricks) comes running out of the church.
Not long after, the furious Lord Seadown goes sprinting out in search of Jinny.
Then theres Colonel St. George, running up to the church to meet hiswife.
Why was he not inside witnessing his daughters wedding?)
he gasps, out of breath.
Shes inside, Patti, right now.
Shes inside the castle.
Mrs. St. George asks.
This is just flagrant!
It also ruins the balance of the otherwise effective closing scene.
banner gets unfurled over the closing moments.
Thirty seconds earlier, and the ending wouldve been fine.
