How ‘The Buccaneers’ Breathes New Life Into an Unfinished Edith Wharton Novel

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Creator Katherine Jakeways has updated a nearly 90-year-old story for Apple TV+ with a cast of fresh-faced actors and a bumping modern soundtrack.

In the decades since, others have attempted to bring more shading to The Buccaneers. The author Marion Mainwaring published a completed version of the story in 1993; two years later, the BBC coproduced a miniseries starring Carla Gugino and Mira Sorvino. Now it’s Apple’s turn. On Wednesday, Apple TV+ unfurls the first three episodes of its new Buccaneers adaptation.

Jakeways takes a number of liberties with the original story, teasing out plots that are only hinted at in Wharton’s text and creating entirely new storylines for some of the characters, including a same-sex romance and an abusive relationship. “They’re not things that are only just appearing in our world in the last 20 years,” Jakeways says. “It’s just that we now have more language for talking about them and more capacity for being able to describe them and say what we think about them.

 

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