Men with power, girls with money. Tale as old as time, etc, but never too old to be given a 21st century feminist gussying up.
This expensive-looking adaptation of Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel, The Buccaneers, which follows the fortunes of a group of young, rich, ambitious American women in the 1870s as they navigate the piranha-infested waters of the English upper classes, has been described already as “Bridgerton-esque” (as is henceforth to be the fate of any lavish, diversely cast period drama) and it certainly owes some of its spirit to that behemoth.
