The Buccaneers
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This recap covers the first three episodes ofThe Buccaneers,streaming now on Apple TV+.
The Americans are coming!
The Americans are coming!
The Americans are coming to England and they are leaving animpression.
Is it always a good one?
Not exactly especially for some of the most hoity-toity lords and ladies.
Man, do they love to spin.
Welcome to the world ofThe Buccaneers, Katherine Jakewayss Apple TV+ drama based on Edith Whartons unfinished final novel.
A pairing between the two means the Americans get credibility and the English can pay for their lavish lifestyle.
Conchi and Dickie are clearly crazy about each other but also make each other crazy.
Thatll happen when the groom doesnt show up on time for his own wedding.
Dickie loves Conchita, to hell with the rest of it.
The wedding is so, so on.
Perhaps most important for this crew, when Nan promises to prioritize their friendship, she actually does it.
They can take a hike!
Okay, Lizzy gets a pass, sort of.
She is one of the most self-involved humans on the planet.
And babes, well get to the menace that is Jinny St. George in a moment.
Were immediately rooting for Nan.
First, Nan has a pretty adorable meet-cute with a handsome English stranger during the whole scaling-the-wall-to-save-an-earring debacle.
Eventually, well learn this handsome strangers name is Guy Thwarte.
He is immediately taken by Nans openness.
And probably also those wall-scaling abilities.
Only in America, am I right?
Like, he couldnt ease into that piece of information?
Well blame it on grief because otherwise, Guy rules.
Suck on that, Mrs. Paramore!
Although, do they really want to when the people judging them are Richards awful family?
But Richards siblings, the stuck-up Honoria and creepy-crawly-inducing Lord James Seadown, arent great either.
Still, Seadown is given a directive from his mother: He needs to marry either Jinny or Lizzy.
They need the money.
Something else abundantly clear: Richard was exactly right about what would happen to Conchita in England.
His family cant stand her and arent afraid to verify she knows it.
But Nan discovers she has much bigger problems to deal with in her own life.
Tensions are high at the queens debutante ball.
When she overhears a snobby aristocrat disparaging American women, shes not afraid to let him have it.
Then she runs into Guy, and thats pretty great.
They are so at ease with each other that they should just get married right then and there.
They dont get married, but a giggly Nandoesaccidentally drop her shoe into some cake.
In one fell swoop, she has revealed Nans entire life to be a lie.
I havent been to any debutante balls, but this does seem like a pretty bad one.
Jokes on Jinny, though, because something kind of incredible happens to Nan while in Cornwall.
She happens upon yetanothervery handsome man who is taken with her.
She is intrigued too.
The man is in love and theres no stopping it.
You know things are about to get wild when Conchita now a mother is the chaperone.
Who will chaperone the chaperone, you know?
The party weekend at Runnymede has major ramifications for all five of our women.
in which he goes on and on about how Conchita will never fit in here.
during a game of sardines.
Meanwhile, Lizzy and Jinny become unwilling participants in Seadowns sick manipulations.
Now, Jinny is no saint.
Who invited this chick, anyway?
Lizzy will surely wish she had backed off in the end.
It is all about humiliation and control, and Lizzy is powerless against it.
His games arent over yet.
The next morning, he takes Jinnys hand in front of everyone, completely ignoring Lizzy, and proposes.
But that isnt the only dramatic thing to happen to a St. George woman that weekend.
There is, of course, Nan.
It turns out the only person who really sees Nan is, did you guess it Guy Thwarte.
This man pops upagain!
The two share yet a third swoony interaction, this time much deeper.
Guy talks about his late mother and, eventually, Nan reveals the truth about her parentage.
And then Guy runs away.
It is a little more complicated than him just being disgusted by Nan being illegitimate.
What Nan doesnt know is that Guy is being forced by his father to marry someone rich.
Its the whole reason he started pursuing Nan … until he actually fell for her.
If he tells his father shes illegitimate, hell be very displeased.
It doesnt take long, just a few hours, and Guy says screw it.
Because someone else is lurking around English hedges at every turn: Theo shows up at Runnymede!
He wants to know that she loves Theo and not the duke.
Hurt by Guy and swept up in a very swoony speech, Nan says yes.
But Jinny actually knows nothing.
Because you know who else knows?
Guy is Theos childhood best friend!
Because of course he is.
Remember when Mrs. Testvalley said that thing about England being small?
She did not lie, not one little bit.
And he wants to.
He really wants to.
He assures her that hell never tell anyone her secret.
So, she fully and officially turns to Theo.
He wants to be near her.
He wants to know who she really is.
Mabel and Honoriadoshare that kiss in the rain no less!
Richard follows her and tells her he loves her.
Screw his family he wants them to go back to New York and be able to breathe again.
So maybe that door isnt as closed as Nan thought.
