Just when you assumed Bridgerton could not get any much better, the queen turned up the warmth even additional. Queen Charlotte, a six-episode prequel series that tells the backstory of Bridgerton’s gossip-loving queen, premiered on May perhaps 4, and despite the fact that fans had been holding the show to a large bar going in, the miniseries exceeded everyone’s expectations. Now, the fandom appears to be to be in agreement that Queen Charlotte is greater than the most important Bridgerton sequence.

When Queen Charlotte does play a very pivotal function in Bridgerton, she’s mostly been on the sidelines possibly providing some comedic relief or pulling the strings of each social time. But in Queen Charlotte, she last but not least received her highlight. The miniseries jumps again half a century from Bridgerton’s time to notify the tale of how Charlotte became queen. Charlotte was a German girl who was in essence marketed to King George by her brother. At to start with, she understandably hated the arrangement, but swiftly fell for George’s charms on meeting him… only to then turn into certain that he hated her because of to his erratic actions.

It’s a vintage Bridgerton enjoy story, but a person that viewers identified on their own even more attached to than Daphne and Simon’s or Anthony and Kate’s in Bridgerton. Soon following the series premiered, Bridgerton fans ended up admitting that they imagined Queen Charlotte stood above both Bridgerton seasons that preceded it.

Though wardrobe, writing, and plot ended up all cited as explanations for Queen Charlotte’s crowning as the best Bridgerton tale, the primary element was obviously the chemistry among Charlotte and George. In Bridgerton, the partnership amongst the older versions of Charlotte and George hadn’t been explored far too much, with Charlotte’s primary worry getting to keep her partner secure amid his struggles with dementia. But in Queen Charlotte, their adore tale is steamy, twisted, tragic, and gorgeous all at as soon as. Clearly, shippers could not get more than enough of them.

And it’s possible, just perhaps, the Queen Charlotte craze doesn’t have to stop nonetheless. Whilst it was released as a constrained series, the show’s stars as effectively as creator Shonda Rhimes have all expressed desire in probably earning a Period 2. That’s even now up in the air, but at the very least supporters can look ahead to viewing Queen Charlotte and King George all over again (and in a full new gentle) when Bridgerton returns for Season 3.