Sanditon Season Two Was Worth Saving
21.03.2022 - 22:29
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Sanditon on PBS might be the best evidence of all. Based on an unfinished Jane Austen novel, the show first aired on U.K. channel ITV in late summer 2019 but struggled to find an audience.
By December, a month before its U.S. premiere, Sanditon was canceled. "We would have loved it to return, but unfortunately we just didn't get the audience that would make that possible for us, which is heartbreaking for everybody involved in this wonderful adaptation," said an ITV spokesperson at the time. But timing is everything because one year later, Bridgerton arrived on Netflix.
Suddenly, everyone was interested in buying , touring the , and decorating their homes with wisteria. It also left viewers hungry for . Lucky for them, Sanditon had a lot of similarities to Bridgerton—most notably, Theo James as Sidney Parker, a hero written in the female gaze he could really only be rivaled by Regé-Jean Page's Simon Basset. Word about Sanditon's appeal spread among Bridgerton fans so quickly and vocally that the PBS Masterpiece series was revived for . This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Sanditon season two returned on Sunday, March 20—the same week as Bridgerton's season two premiere, it's worth noting—and I think viewers will be happy with the outcome of their fan-led campaign.
There is one major disappointment: Much like Page on Bridgerton, James has decided to as the brooding hero. The season two premiere reveals that his character has died, so hopes that he might change his mind for season three seem unlikely. While his absence is noticeable, it does create a conflict that strengthens the show overall. It's interesting to watch as our heroine Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) grapples with her grief, becoming
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