[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Buccaneers Season 2, Episode 1, “The Duchess of Tintagel.”]
The Buccaneers are again and confirming Season 2’s most evident principle that Leighton Meester‘s Nell is Nan’s (Kristine Frøseth) actual mom after Season 1’s cliffhanger conclusion revealing her presence. However the Apple TV+ drama wasn’t finished with the twists surrounding this new character, because it was rapidly unveiled to audiences that Nell can also be Patti St. George’s (Christina Hendricks) sister!
Sure, you learn that proper. Patti’s sister Nell can also be Nan’s organic mom. When confronted with Nell’s presence, Patti is compelled to introduce her to the brand new Duchess, however tells Nan that Nell is merely her aunt, shutting down the chance for Nell to disclose her true relation. When Nell and Patti lastly have a heart-to-heart, Nell reveals that the summer season she spent with Patti and Mr. St. George (Adam James), throughout which she received pregnant, was a chaotic time the place she was principally looking for a parental determine to rein in her wild little one methods.
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Whereas she waited for Patti to step up in that space, their relationship started to dissolve slowly till the affair and being pregnant tore Nell and Patti aside for 19 years. In the end, Patti sees Nell’s perspective in another way when she’s reminded that Nell was a yr youthful than Nan is now when she grew to become pregnant. Realizing her sister was basically a baby herself leads Patti to work on repairing issues with Nell.
Though nobody explicitly tells Nan that Nell is her mom, there’s a flash in her eye when she takes within the size of her and Patti’s estrangement. Patti and Nell go away Tintagel collectively, leaving Mr. St. George, whom Patti nonetheless plans to divorce, behind as they put sisterhood over all else.
Their exit is paying homage to Season 1’s finale, which noticed Nan select her sister Jinny’s (Imogen Waterhouse) security above her true happiness as she married the Duke, Theo (Man Remmers), to safe energy and affect to guard Jinny from her abusive husband, Lord Seadown (Barney Fishwick). Escaping alongside Nan’s real love, Man (Matthew Broome), a pregnant Jinny left the one life she’d ever identified behind.
Meester acknowledges the similarities between the sister storylines. “I fully agree. I believe that it’s, in a roundabout way, clearly it’s mirroring, however virtually correcting the previous, and it’s virtually like this second likelihood alternative,” she tells TV Insider relating to Patti and Nell’s determination to decide on one another by leaving Europe collectively.
“Realizing how different folks work together with a personality like this, you may simply leap to judgment, and I’m so grateful that it was written in a means that gave all the opposite characters area to attempt to perceive her,” Meester provides, noting, “I believe the rationale why it really works, as not simply type of the ‘different girl’ is as a result of she is a member of the family and that darkish secret, the betrayal, there’s purpose behind it.”
In different phrases, Nell’s actions prolonged past partaking in a fling; in a means, it was virtually a cry for assist, which by no means got here. “It isn’t simply that she was scouting for somebody’s husband,” Meester says. “She was additionally in search of the motherly love that she desired from her personal sister that was misplaced in that early time.”
As for the sister revelation and twist between Patti and Nell, Meester says, “I believe it’s so advanced, and it was actually a pleasure and in addition very difficult to unpack all of it.” Catch Meester’s full response within the video above, and see how Nell and Patti work on repairing their sister bond in Season 2.
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