'The Buccaneers' season 2 trailer is here to tease romance and new characters
The Apple TV Plus period drama-comedy will debut its second season on June 18, with one new episode dropping on the streaming service every Wednesday through August 6. And fans now have a much-anticipated early look with the season's first official trailer, teasing more 1870s London drama set to Chappell Roan's present-day "Good Luck Babe."
On May 22, Apple TV Plus released a fresh two-minute trailer that kicks off with Nan St. George (Kristine Froseth) navigating her new marriage to Theo, Duke of Tintagel (Guy Remmers) all while still seemingly harboring feelings for Guy Thwarte (Matthew Broome).
'I really want to make this version of my life work. I have to let Guy go," she can be heard declaring in the new clip.
Speaking of Guy, we see him and Jinny St. George (Imogen Waterhouse) arriving somewhere warm, sunny and decidedly un-England-y. "It's been months since Jinny and I left England," Broome's character can be heard in the trailer. "Everything has changed, except the way I feel."
Needless to stay, the drama between Nan and Guy is far from over. Check out the full trailer below:
The logline for season 2 promises a new chapter for the young American Buccaneers, one packed with "sisterhood, romance, wit, steamy love affairs, extravagant gowns, spectacular landscapes and jaw-dropping plot-twists. "
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'Now the Buccaneers are no longer the invaders — England is their home. In fact, they're practically running the place,' the synopsis reads. 'Nan is the Duchess of Tintagel, the most influential woman in the country. Conchita is Lady Brightlingsea, heroine to a wave of young American heiresses. And Jinny is on every front page, wanted for the kidnapping of her unborn child.
"All of the girls have been forced to grow up and now have to fight to be heard, as they wrestle with romance, lust, jealousy, births and deaths … themes consuming all women of any age, no matter what year it is. Last time we got a taste of England. This time we're in for a veritable feast.'
Along with returning cast members, including Kristine Frøseth, Alisha Boe, Aubri Ibrag, Josie Totah, Imogen Waterhouse, Mia Threapleton and Emmy Award nominee Christina Hendricks, the sophomore installment will welcome several new faces to the ensemble, including Greg Wise, Jacob Ifan, Grace Ambrose, Maria Almeida and, notably, "Gossip Girl" favorite Leighton Meester, who pops up in the final moments of the new trailer.
We're very ready for all of the stylish Victorian shenanigans yet to come. Tom's Guide will keep you posted on all things related to the second season of "The Buccaneers", including casting intel, new teaser clips, plot details and more.
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- Boston Globe
Revising the reputation of the most reviled man in rock 'n 'roll history
He wasn't American. Born in the Netherlands, in 1909, he twice stowed away on ships sailing to the United States (the first time he got sent back) and never became a US citizen. Colonel Tom Parker, left, and Elvis Presley on the set of "Wild in the Country." © Graceland Archives True, he was show business, and a manager. But he wasn't rock 'n' roll, which was problematic since his most celebrated client was Elvis Presley. It was their relationship that made Parker a legend. More to the point, it was Parker's management that helped neuter Presley artistically. Or so conventional wisdom has it. Advertisement That view might be a further example of Parker not being as he seemed. In his new book, 'The Colonel and the King,' Peter Guralnick shows a Parker far more complex and creative than commonly understood. Yes, the bald, rotund, cigar-chomping Parker looked the part of the onetime carny he'd been: more folk villain than folk hero. Yet he was also much more than that, a latter-day Gatsby, a classic case of American self-invention – as was Presley. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'Each of them believed in the other,' Guralnick said in an interview last month. 'Each of them believed there were no limits to what the two of them could achieve together.' Colonel Tom Parker, left, Elvis Presley, and Ed Sullivan. © Graceland Archives Guralnick, 81, knew Parker. He also knew Sam Phillips, who discovered Presley. He's written biographies of Phillips, the singer Sam Cooke, and, most famously, a two-volume life of Presley. Of the first volume, 'Last Train to Memphis,' Bob Dylan said, 'This book cancels out all others.' A revisionist view of Parker from someone else might make readers shake their heads. From Guralnick, it promises to open their eyes. Advertisement On Wednesday, Guralnick will be in conversation at the Cambridge Public Library with his friend Peter Wolf, of J. Geils Band fame. Admission is free, but Last month, Guralnick sat at the dining-room table in the 18th-century house where he and his wife, Alexandra, have lived since 1971 and talked about the new book, half of which is a standard biography and half a collection of Parker's letters. From left to right, Peter Guralnick, Colonel Tom Parker, and Sam Phillips at Parker's 80th birthday party. Sally Wilbourn/courtesy © Peter Guralnick Q. The two most reviled figures in rock 'n' roll history, whether fairly or not, are Yoko Ono and the Colonel. A. Sure, okay, absolutely. Q. Do you think you're going to catch a lot of flak from people who'll see you as an apologist for him? A. The likelihood is that I will. I'm not trying to dictate what their conclusions will be, but I think if they read the book and they leave themselves open to seeing the truth of what lies there in the pages then I hope they'll change their minds some. Colonel Tom Parker, left, and Elvis Presley on the set of Presley's first movie, "Love Me Tender." AP Photo Q. The book didn't begin as a biography. A. It evolved, in a sense, from a book that was going to be a book of letters, 30 years ago, and it never occurred to me to do a biography and that the letters would provide an entry point. Q. What was the motivation for the book in that first stage? Advertisement A. Alexandra and I get into the [Graceland] archives. We're there amidst all these trunks, travel trunks, you know, the trunks every trouper would carry on the road, and these battered old file cabinets. And we see these letters that he's written, from every stage of his life. Our reaction was immediate: This is not the Colonel that people think they know. I said to Jack Soden [head of Elvis Presley Enterprises], we've got to do a book of Colonel's letters. Then I proposed it to Colonel. 'You're a great letter writer,' I told him. 'I know I am.' he said. Q. 'Last Train to Memphis' came out a few years before he died. Do you know if he read it, and if so -- A. Oh, yeah, he read the book carefully. He talked to me about it. He had all these ideas for how I could market it. A review came out in the Los Angeles Times that I wouldn't call a rave, but it was a lot of space, and he said, 'How did you get them to run that big an advertisement?' Peter Guralnick in his West Newbury home. Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff Q. What do you think he would have thought of this book? A . Oh, he'd wag his finger at me, 'You should not have written anything if you didn't know how it was completely.' And I'd say back to him, as I did in life [ laughing] , 'But, Colonel, if you'd told me how it was then I would have a perspective on how it was exactly. But you can't expect me not to write about something simply because you withhold the information.' Overall, I think he would be very pleased, because he took himself seriously and he recognized that he couldn't make the claims for himself that I made. Advertisement Q. An important point to clarify: It's 'Colonel' not 'the Colonel.' A. Right, Colonel took the place of his first name, although he was 'Tom' to many of his old friends. If you want to reference the dignity of his position it's 'the Colonel.' But for Colonel there was no dignity to the position. He referred to himself again and again as a phony colonel and laughed about it. At the same time, although he carried himself with great élan , dignity, whatever, there was also insecurity. So I think to some extent having people call him by this title [countered that] but it did not outweigh the sense of extreme irony that he felt at the title and at the foolishness of the title. Colonel Tom Parker, c. 1955. Keystone Features/Q. The Colonel business helped give him a persona, and the humorousness of the title, the foolishness of it, furthered that persona. A. Absolutely. Colonel was a fabulator. He was a mythmaker. That was part of his creative bent. He was an extremely creative person, if not in the forms that you think of ordinarily. He spent his whole life developing the persona -- you know, the way he looks, the way he acts. Throughout the industry, he was taken very seriously, but it served his purpose to say, I've made up this persona, I've cast myself in this role, it saves me all this time. Colonel didn't believe in an afterlife. He didn't believe in organized religion. He didn't believe in salvation, I think. He believed in process, and that's what he was caught up in, the process. Advertisement Q. He believed in Elvis -- A. He totally believed in Elvis. Q. -- but he didn't believe in rock 'n' roll, and his not believing in rock 'n' roll is a lot of what people hold against him and why they see him as ultimately having betrayed the promise of Elvis. A. He believed in Elvis as a figure in the firmament of show business. He believed in show business. He loved show business. With Elvis, he saw someone for whom there were no limits, and it was because of both Elvis's creative imagination and his own. And I think that's something they shared. I think he would have seen a belief in rock 'n' roll or any one thing as being a limiting factor. But I'll go back to what you said. I don't think anybody saw Colonel in the way that he came to be seen after Elvis's death until probably the late '60s. I think until that time he was [considered] an entertaining sideshow. It was when people began to perceive Elvis as stumbling. That took place, really, in the 70s, but before then there were signs of it. Q. A. The movies, but most of all it just -- he was not Elvis. And it was at that point that Colonel. . . . You know, you could say he deserved the blame, but he was prepared to take the blame. Q. If you loved Elvis but you didn't love what he was presently doing, you could blame the Colonel. A. Yes, yeah. Q. You've done four major biographies, two of people you never met, Elvis and Sam Cooke, and two of people you knew, Sam Phillips and Colonel. Was there a difference? Advertisement A. It's not that different, for me, whether you know the person or you don't know the person. How well do you ever know anybody? Was it [the French novelist] TOM HANKS as Colonel Tom Parker in Warner Bros. Pictures' drama 'ELVIS.' Hugh Stewart Q. Tom Hanks played Colonel in A. John Goodman could. Tom Hanks could be cast [again]; he'd just need different direction. When I spoke to the guy who read the audiobook, I said, 'You want to get a sense of whimsicality. You want to get a sense of self-amusement.' It's not that that's the whole thing, by any means. There are plenty of sober moments in the book. But Colonel, you know, was so playful. Sam Phillips said to me [when Guralnick was writing his biography], 'I just want it to be another swinging day at the fair.' And, you know, that just seemed so perfect. This is even more applicable to Colonel's story. It's another swinging day at the fair. Interview has been edited and condensed. Mark Feeney can be reached at
USA Today
37 minutes ago
- USA Today
America's fascination with the kiss cam: For better or worse, it's here to stay
'Are you not entertained?' Russell Crowe's Maximus famously bellowed to the Colosseum crowd in the 2000 film 'Gladiator.' But for decades, kiss cams have been posing a different question to U.S. sports fans and concertgoers: 'Are you not the entertainment?' Whether lighthearted distraction or comic relief, the ubiquitous arena and stadium feature is as American as apple pie — or at least as American as baking an apple pie and posting it on social media. Live competition and performance offer us communal experience on a massive scale, but they also offer a chance to make memories and — with the aid of kiss cams — to become part of the entertainment ourselves. For a few back-to-back moments, as the camera zeroes in on its various targets, fans watch with curiosity, anticipation, excitement and maybe even self-conscious dread. 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But as illustrated by the now infamous July 16 incident at a Coldplay concert in Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, that's not always the case for the featured individuals. When reactions tell the story It was the shot broadcast around the world – the TikTok'd footage of a couple at a Coldplay concert caught mid-cuddle. 'Either they're having an affair, or they're just very shy,' Coldplay singer Chris Martin quipped after seeing the video from the stage. The video of the July 16 incident at Gillette Stadium has received more than 129 million views on TikTok alone. The viral moment and its professional and personal fallout, Schwartz said, prompted reactions ranging from amusement and fascination to, for those who've been involved in similar circumstances, schadenfreude and relief. But it wouldn't have unfolded the way it did without the kiss cam. The couple seen on the screen "could have saved themselves from worldwide derision had they waved and looked like, 'This is no big deal,'" Schwartz said. "But they took the second instinct, which was to flee. And that was the funny one." 'It could have been a vanilla, fleeting moment,' Resnick agreed. 'However, their reaction told a story." The episode illustrated how kiss cams have provoked occasional embarrassment and controversy since their debut. In addition to outing potential infidelities, their use in the past has been accused of pressuring unwilling participants to take part and shamed for promoting homophobia by showing same-sex couples for laughs. It also showed the hazards of baring private matters in public in the age of kiss cams, smartphones and social media. 'The expectation of privacy at a public event has never existed, and today, with camera ubiquity, it's preposterous for anyone to take that position,' Resnick said. More often, though, kiss cams offer those attending live events the chance to score a cameo in their own experience, claiming part or even all of those 15 seconds of fame once foretold for all of us. The power of those moments, Resnick said, lies in their organic nature. 'Authenticity can't be staged in real time,' he said. 'It resonates in the social zeitgeist.' Kiss cams 'an important metric' of acceptance The kiss cam's evolution hasn't been without its stumbles. In 2015, Syracuse University discontinued its kiss cam feature after a letter to the local newspaper cited a pair of troubling instances at the football team's game against Wake Forest. Steve Port of Manlius, N.Y., wrote that the kiss cam segment had twice featured young women who expressed unwillingness to participate but were forced to anyway, either by their male counterpart or by surrounding students. Meanwhile, a dozen or so years have passed since some major league sports franchises were accused of promoting homophobia by using kiss cams to poke fun at other teams. In those cases, after featuring a series of smooching male-female couples, the kiss cam segments ended by focusing on two of the home team's rival players, or even fans – suggesting they might kiss, and that doing so would be comedic. As a fan of the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars complained after such a segment in a 2013 letter to team owner Shahid Khan, initially reported by Outsports: 'Hilarious, right? No, and the message is clear. Jaguars are heterosexual and approved. The opponent is 'gay,' disapproved and the butt of a crude joke.' A year earlier, pitcher Brandon McCarthy of Major League Baseball's Oakland A's had similarly condemned the practice after a game against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. 'They put two guys on the 'Kiss Cam' tonight,' McCarthy posted on the social platform now known as X. 'What hilarity!! (by hilarity I mean offensive homophobia). Enough with this stupid trend.' Later, McCarthy — now sporting director for the USL Championship's Phoenix Rising FC — told the San Francisco Chronicle: "If there are gay people who are coming to a game and seeing something like that, you can't assume they're comfortable with it. If you're even making a small group of people ... feel like outcasts, then you're going against what makes your model successful." Before long, franchises were striving to be more inclusive, and in 2015, MLB's New York Mets told the Huffington Post they would no longer feature opposing players in their kiss cam segments; that same year, the Dodgers included a gay couple in its kiss cam. 'Kiss cams are an important metric in measuring how acceptable certain people are in a given community,' said Stephanie Bonvissuto, an adjunct assistant professor of women's and gender studies at Hunter College and Brooklyn College, both part of the City University of New York system. In early 2017, the Ad Council's 'Love Has No Labels' campaign produced a commercial featuring kiss cam footage from that year's NFL Pro Bowl in Orlando, Florida, where 49 people had been killed seven months earlier in a mass shooting at gay nightclub Pulse. 'Kiss Cams have been a part of sports culture for years,' the opening text read, but at that game, it continued, they 'became part of something bigger.' The images showed pairs of individuals, outlined by a heart, broadcast on Camping World Stadium's giant screens. Friends were featured. So, too, were same-sex and interracial couples. Then the camera zoomed in on two women in the stands, one of them wearing a shirt reading 'Orlando survivor.' The two turned and kissed, to the crowd's delight. Still, Bonvissuto said it's still rare to see LGBTQ couples featured on kiss cams beyond Pride Night events. While cautioning that she hasn't seen any statistics on such representation, she said the footage she's viewed largely features white, able-bodied and seemingly cisgender individuals. 'Kiss cams act as a means to exclude certain people,' she said. 'They're incredibly important in thinking about representation — who we're seeing and not seeing.' 'Socially acceptable' voyeurism But for the most part, kiss cams have offered streams of harmless fun, fodder for highlight and blooper reels and glimpses into the relationships of everyone from fellow citizens to celebrities and sitting and former U.S. presidents. Kiss cams, said BYU's Darowski, offer audiences the constant thrill of knowing they could be onscreen combined with 'a socially acceptable, safe form of voyeurism that is traditionally taboo.' The presumed authenticity of couples' raw, unrehearsed reactions is key, too, he said. 'So much of our entertainment is highly mediated, edited and packaged for our consumption,' he said. It doesn't always play out as planned – and not all of it is necessarily genuine, thanks to some sports teams' creative minds. Many couples share crowd-pleasing kisses. Others, not so much. Some, snubbed by their companions, stomp off in a huff or peck adjacent fans instead, while youthful pairs looking to lock lips are thwarted by chaperoning adults. Whether any of it is staged doesn't matter much. Fans and audiences alike have enjoyed their moment in the limelight. Resnick, of 15 Seconds of Fame, recalled a moment in June 2024 after a Dallas Mavericks loss in game five of the NBA Finals. The arena cameras zeroed on a fan tearful over the outcome. While it wasn't part of the kiss cam feature, 'the minute he saw himself on the Jumbotron, he smiled and kissed the girl (who was) with him,' Resnick said. 'That's all you need to know about what those 15 seconds mean to fans.'
Boston Globe
4 hours ago
- Boston Globe
A former US soldier finds a home in Mexican wrestling
When Gordon, whose real name is Travis Gordon Lopes Jr., flings himself into the ring, his presence raises some potentially uncomfortable questions. What happens when an American, and a former U.S. soldier at that, competes in a profoundly Mexican form of entertainment -- known for colorful masks, outlandish outfits and high-flying acts -- while wearing camo, boots and dog tags? Can a fan base bound up in Mexican nationalism, spurred by President Donald Trump's threats of military action in their country, embrace and cheer for a man dressed like G.I. Joe? And what happens to a wrestler who has become an immigrant in Mexico at a moment of intense strain between his country of origin and his new home? Advertisement Regardless of their costume, foreigners in the world of lucha libre often wrestle as a 'rudo,' a rule-bending bad guy who uses brute force. But in a twist, and despite his U.S. soldier garb, Gordon actually wrestles as a 'técnico,' a good guy, because of his more acrobatic, finessed style and how he won over crowds. Gordon grew up in Montana, enlisted in the Army National Guard in 2012 and served six years in Idaho and Massachusetts. He earned his nickname from doing flips in his backyard since childhood, and his goal was to become a top professional wrestler in the United States. Advertisement He began his wrestling career, juggling competitions with his military commitments and making occasional trips abroad -- including to Mexico, where he made his lucha libre debut in 2017. It was on one of those trips that he met Barby Villela, 36, who worked in marketing for the organization that promotes lucha libre in Mexico. They eventually began dating, and married in 2023. Gordon moved to Mexico full time that year. Early in his wrestling career, Gordon said, he had tried to hide his military background, wearing generic outfits. After encouragement from some longtime wrestlers, he began wearing camouflage versions of traditional wrestling attire. Once in Mexico, he worried about what kind of reaction he would get, saying he was 'terrified' about personifying a U.S. soldier in the ring. And indeed, he was booed. Fans didn't want to support an American going up against Mexican wrestlers in a very Mexican endeavor. His soldier's outfit only amped up the animosity among some of the thousands of fans who turn up to watch, and offer their opinions at loud volume. Mexicans have long had cause to be wary of the U.S. military. The countries' shared history includes several instances of U.S. military intervention, not least the Mexican-American War of the 19th century, in which the United States gained a large chunk of territory. And under Trump, the United States has pushed Mexico hard to curb the flow of migrants and drugs, threatening high tariffs and even raising the idea of U.S. military action in Mexico against cartels. Advertisement Gordon calls himself 'very nonpolitical' and declined to comment on Trump's actions. But he embraces the image of a U.S. soldier. Before fights, Gordon does a traditional military salute, raising his right hand to his brow. He still trains using some exercises from his military days. Fans, and a few of Gordon's Mexican rivals, taunted him for being an American who stuck out in Mexico and couldn't quite speak the language. 'It was very pronounced,' said Fernando Damiron, 31, a government worker and an ardent lucha libre fan from Mexico City. 'His character and the wrestling council had him marked as the gringo against the Mexican.' Damiron confessed that he was among those who initially jeered Gordon for being 'a gringo and for being a non-Mexican character.' In January 2024, after a fight against Mexican rival Angel de Oro, Gordon challenged him to a one-on-one rematch in Spanglish over the arena microphone. His opponent mocked Gordon's language skills to the crowd's delight and said he accepted the fight 'only because I'm going to show you to respect Mexicans.' But Gordon began adapting to his new home. In the ring, in the council's promotional videos and on his own social media accounts, he started using less English and more Spanish for his local audience. He learned more with help from his wife, a few apps on his phone and his fellow wrestlers. And it was Villela who encouraged Gordon not only to play the character of a super soldier but also to show off his physique. 'We all have kids' souls,' she said. 'Wrestling in Mexico is the second-most important sport, after soccer. Our superheroes are wrestlers. And what's better than having G.I. Joe in uniform?' She later joked, 'And we'll cover two markets: women and children.' Advertisement Gordon began with a modified version of an old Army uniform: pants, heavy boots and a jacket with its arms cut off. He later had a custom outfit made in lighter, more flexible material -- better for flipping in and out of the ring. 'Everybody loves Captain America,' he said. 'They don't necessarily need to like the United States to like Captain America ." The approach -- and Gordon's growing lucha libre skills -- paid off. His fan base grew, and last fall, he even became the first American to earn a middleweight title. 'It sounds weird, but I feel like I'm becoming more Mexican,' he said late last year. Now, Gordon gives interviews in his second language, unafraid to make mistakes. To promote a recent title defense fight, he dressed up in a mariachi outfit. He recently signed a multiyear contract with the lucha libre council and said he is a permanent resident and hopes to get his Mexican citizenship in a few years. His daughter was born in Mexico last year, and Villela is expecting their second child. So even though a U.S.-Mexico rivalry is played up when Gordan enters the ring, he talks openly about his love for Mexico and its culture. " I'm proud of where I come from," he said, 'but I'm also proud that I'm evolving as a human and embracing a new culture.' Given all that has happened in U.S.-Mexico relations since Trump took office in January, Gordon joked that he was surprised that he wasn't booed more. But unlike in Canada, where hockey fans have booed the U.S. national anthem, there hasn't been much change around the ring, he said. Advertisement Lucha libre, Villela said, is 'magical' for Mexicans because it allows them to disconnect, enjoy the characters and 'let everything out' at the arenas. Fans like Damiron agreed that Gordon had carved out a niche for himself in the country with his wrestling style and personality. 'He's Mexican now,' he said. This article originally appeared in
