Good news: Netflix has renewed Bridgerton for a second season. But with their storyline wrapped up, will Simon Basset and Daphne Bridgerton be back?
Ever since it debuted on Christmas Day, the first season of Bridgerton — a new Shondaland based on author Julia Quinn’s series of bodice-rippers — has dominated, finding millions of fans eager for more Regency-era romance.
The issue is that the first season neatly wrapped up the romantic arcs of the main characters — Duke of Hastings Simon Basset (Regé-Jean Page) and Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) — pretty neatly. But never fear: there are eight books in Quinn’s Bridgerton series, each focusing on the love life of a different Bridgerton sibling. Next up is Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey), the focus of the book The Viscount Who Loved Me. He will be at the center of season 2, which Netflix announced via an invitation from Lady Whistledown (voiced by Julie Andrews) herself:
Considering what a hit Bridgerton has been for Netflix, a second season was pretty much a given. But will Page and Dynevor return, at least as supporting characters? “I hope so,” creator Chris Van Dusen told Deadline. “They are now of course the Duke and Duchess of Hastings but in my mind they will always be Bridgertons and I think they will always be part of the show.”
We have a bunch of new characters we are going to be introducing. Anthony is going to have a love interest next season, and I think it’s going to be as sweeping and moving and as beautiful as viewers of the first season have come to expect from the show.
If Van Dusen has his way, he’ll do a different season of Bridgerton for all eight of the siblings, but with season 2 due to start shooting in London he late spring, he has more immediate concerns, like how to film a show that includes sex scenes and lots of extras under COVID-19 conditions.
For now it’ll have to be enough to know another season is coming. Best of luck!
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