Season 2 gave us a memorably heart-wrenching scene in which a manic George bursts into a room where Charlotte is discussing the stalled wedding of Anthony Bridgerton ( Jonathan Bailey) and Edwina Sharma (Charithra Chandran) with Edwina, her mother Lady Mary ( Shelley Conn), Lady Bridgerton ( Ruth Gemmell), and Lady Danbury ( Adjoa Andoh). We've learned a lot about Queen Charlotte (the elder version played by Golda Rosheuvel) through her supporting stint on the first two seasons of Bridgerton: Her hair game is unmatched her insults are devastating she hates the ton's resident gossipmonger, Lady Whistledown and she is one half of a couple with a famed love story that supposedly fixed racism but has a tragic twist - King George (the elder version played by James Fleet) suffers from some sort of mental illness and dementia so bad he doesn't even remember who he is anymore, let alone the woman he loves. In the end, it turns out, the risk was worth it.
While watching the six-episode limited series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, some of those common prequel traps are evident, and it's easy to begin asking what the point of this specific story really is, but by the time I hit the final scene of the series - a gorgeous, heartbreaking, romantic moment between our two monarchs that ties the past and present together - those issues faded into the background and the reasoning behind telling this story was clear. A frothy, sexy romance series jumping a few decades in the past to focus on a love story that we already know gets an extremely tragic ending is a risk, to say the least. Better Call Saul is an anomaly, OK? House of the Dragon had to set itself literal centuries before Game of Thrones to keep it interesting.
So when it was announced that the Netflix show's first spin-off series would be a prequel that told the story of a young Queen Charlotte ( India Amarteifio) and her marriage to King George III (Corey Mylchreest), I thought to myself… cool, cool, cool, these people are masochists. There is an abundance of options for ways to expand the Bridgerton universe - there are a whole bunch of interesting side characters in the Netflix series, even more in Julia Quinn's novels, and a rich, vivid world ready to act as a backdrop to stories that could happen either before or after our main Bridgerton timeline. India Amarteifio and Corey Mylchreest, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story Liam Daniel/Netflix
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