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'The Buccaneers' Season 2 stars reflect on a painful finale — 'I hope all the girls become one again'
Warning: Spoilers for "The Buccaneer" Season 2
The Buccaneers Season 2 has come to an end with a masquerade ball that resulted in Theo (Guy Remmers) renouncing his title as Duke of Tintagel, so he can divorce Nan (Kristine Frøseth) and be with Lizzy (Aubri Ibrag). But Nan is pregnant, and Theo doesn't know, but she tells Lizzy before she runs off, leaving Lizzy with the burden of that secret as she (possibly) moves forward with a relationship with Theo.
It's a lot to unpack as we start thinking about what a possible Season 3 of the Apple TV+ series could look like. While the show has been quite centred around this sisterhood between friends, it's interesting to think about what could happen now that Lizzy and Nan's friendship has been severed.
"Obviously our show is all about female friendship and it's quite heartbreaking that at the end, ... we're not all necessarily on the best terms," Aubri Ibrag told Yahoo Canada. "I hope all the girls become one again."
"I want to see them like in Saratoga when they're not trying to pursue husbands, not trying to do this or that, when they're just gals living their life. Running around in their underwear, or bloomers. ... I think that they've come so far from that in this season because of all the complications of trying to marry husbands and find love and other things that happen."
But the season finale is also an extension of Theo making a decision for himself, being freed from the responsibility of his title, which we first got a glimpse of earlier in the season in a small moment where he's just dancing in his room, alone, escaping the tension and stress in his life.
"For most of Season 1 and the majority of Season 2, he is in a state of of tension and stress and uncertainty, and it's a really beautiful moment where ... I don't think he's thinking about anything, he's just feeling," Guy Remmers said.
"And I think, for his whole life he's been brought up in a household of suppression and suppressing feelings and buttoning things up and shoving things under the carpet. And I think that's the first moment in his life where he's just feeling, completely feeling."
'We've fought really hard to be heard'
This all speaks to a larger trend in Season 2 of The Buccaneers where many characters find their power and their voice. While for Nan that was largely connected to her position as Duchess this season, it was incredibly satisfying to see her mother, Patricia "Patti" (Christina Hendricks), find that in the penultimate episode of the season during her divorce proceedings.
Patti faces absolutely disgusting misogyny by attorneys, as she's berated with questions about her intimate relationship with her husband Tracy (Adam James), but she stays strong. And things really take a turn when her sister Nell (Leighton Meester) decides to testify, revealing that Nan is her biological daughter, proving Tracy's infidelity.
"I think that's been the fear for so many women, to speak out and up about things that have happened to them, that the legal system can be so cruel and condemning and blaming towards women, and I think people understand that now," Christina Hendricks said. "I think that we've fought really hard to be heard."
"I think one thing that was sort of strange for me is that, what would be the most humiliating thing for someone to bring out about you in court, for Patti it's talking about the fact that she might have sex with him every day, and that she might instigate it, and it's sort of so scandalous, well for me, Christina, that's not that scandalous. I'm like, I'm adorable. I sit on his lap. We have sex every day. Like to me, that would be a compliment. ... So you have to sort of retrain your mind about what would be that significant to you, and sort of explore what public humiliation feels like, and looking at it at that time."
Lasting wound from Season 2
But leaving a lasting impact on The Buccaneers is one character we lost this season.
After seeing Lord James Seadown (Barney Fishwick) repeatedly abuse Jinny (Imogen Waterhouse), in her attempt to escape his captivity Seadown ends up killing his own brother, Richard (Josh Dylan).
"It was very intense, because it was like almost the first day we'd filmed together, but also the last, and there was a sadness in that," Barney Fishwick said about filming that moment of the season. "And there's a genuine affection that we have for each other, which I think plays out."
"And I think that our relationship is quite brotherly anyway, so it's got that kind of feel of, heartbreak's a good word, because there is love there, and it is a tragedy."
That moment is immediately followed by the most devastating scene of the season, where Jinny has to tell Conchita (Alisha Boe) that, in trying to save her, Conchita's husband was killed.
"Obviously the shock is that Richard's been shot, but the trauma is telling Conchita" writer and executive producer, Katherine Jakeways, said.
"It's not only Conchita's reaction, but just in the background, you're seeing Honoria, you're seeing Lady Brightlingsea, who is a brittle character, who never reacts to anything and you can see, even though there's music playing so you can't hear it, but you can see that she's saying, 'That's not true.' ... We really wanted to capture the reaction of the women, basically, after that terrible event."
Now with the ending of the season, we can't help but hope that, after this group of women have faced so much trauma, that they can all reunite, rising above the drama of trying to find their respective romantic partners.
