Wednesday, 22 April 2020

Gentleman Jack season 2 / VIDEO: Gentleman Jack: OFFICIAL TRAILER - BBC




Gentleman Jack season 2 release date: when can we see it?
No air date has been announced yet, but if BBC One wants to follow the pattern it set with the first then the second series will most likely arrive in the summer. Given the show's popularity – and the demands on Happy Valley writer Wainwright's time – 2021 is most likely, though a 2020 autumn release isn't outside the bound of possibility given how quickly the show was renewed.

Gentleman Jack season 2 plot: what's it going to be about?

"I'm utterly delighted that we've been recommissioned," said Wainwright in a BBC statement, "because there are so many more big, bold stories to tell about Anne Lister and Ann Walker."

We left them literally at the very start of their lives as a married couple, as they walk out of church having taken Communion together, a symbol to them of their unconventional (and legally impossible) marriage.

So married life would seem the obvious theme for series two.

"They move into Shibden [Hall] together in series two," Sally Wainwright told Digital Spy, "and it's about how they negotiate their married life, conspicuously in public, and how they deal with their detractors and the effect that has on their relationship as well… Obviously we've got season two, which is fantastic, and I hope it will continue on after that. There's no end of stories."

To RT, Wainwright added: "Even though Anne Lister seems like this absolute powerhouse with this iron will, Ann Walker had a real streak of stubbornness – and of course she had all the money. So there was a real interesting dynamic and a real interesting power dynamic between them, which I’m really looking forward to exploring a bit more fully."

In real life, the couple travelled extensively, so we could see more location shooting next time around. There's also the unresolved issue of the coalmine to address – will Anne finally get the better of the Rawson brothers, and will Vincent Franklin's repellant Christopher Rawson get his comeuppance?

Not to mention that significant look that came over Sam Washington when he learned that Tom's uncle couldn't write – and therefore couldn't have written to tell the other Sowdens that his (totally murdered and fed to pigs) brother had "gone to America".



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