Forget Bridgerton: everything we know about season two of The Buccaneers as Leighton Meester joins the cast

It’s not your average period drama and now The Buccaneers has added a certified pop culture icon to its cast.

Based on Edith Wharton’s unfinished 1938 novel, The series follows the daughters of America’s nineteenth-century new rich, who exploded onto the London social season of the 1870s; beautiful and untameable,…