Apple TV+ Orders Series Based on Unfinished Edith Wharton Novel

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24 JUNE 2022 - In a desperate play to capture the young, hip, teenage viewing public, Apple TV+ is making a series based on the final novel written by Edith Wharton.

So transparent.

The Cupertino-streamer issued a press release Thursday, announcing an eight-episode series order for the show. Though it currently has no title, it’ll be based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s unfinished final novel The Buccaneers. Describing the story, Apple says:

Girls with money, men with power. New money, old secrets. A group of fun-loving young American girls explode into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash as the land of the stiff upper lip is infiltrated by a refreshing disregard for centuries of tradition. Sent to secure husbands and titles, the buccaneers’ hearts are set on much more than that, and saying “I do” is just the beginning…

I’ve only read a few novels by Wharton, though I am a fan. Ethan Frome is wonderful, though needlessly tragic. And The Age of Innocence, also wonderful, though also needlessly tragic. And the novella “False Dawn…” So wonderful… and… needlessly… You know I’m starting to sense a theme.

No word on when the series will premier, though the press release says it’s already in production. I gotta say, I’m really looking forward to seeing the buccancostumes.

Like their big buccanhats…