Everything TheBachelorette gets wrong, TheCourtship gets right
Photo: Sean Gleason/NBC The Courtship, in case you don’t already know, is a dating show in Regency-era cosplay. Cue the fireworks! In the show, one woman and 16 men — her “suitors” — live at a castle in the English countryside and play out a Bachelorette-style courtship in full Bridgerton period costume. The Courtship premiered on NBC’s Sunday lineup to low ratings and has since been moved to Wednesdays on sibling channel USA — which means you probably haven’t watched it. You must.
The first episode opens on a bastardized Jane Austen quote: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in search of a husband must go to Regency-era England and live in a castle with sixteen eligible suitors.” The single woman in question is Nicole Rémy, and the setting is a castle complete with velvet upholstered chairs, parasols, and men with billowing sleeves à la Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy.
“Dating in the 2020s is hard, but it turns out dating in the 1820s was bloody difficult too,” says the show’s British stock-photo host, Mr. Edwards. Between his bland good looks and his posh accent, Mr. Edwards has versatile appeal — he could be the heir to the Harrods fortune or an extra in Fleabag. You’ll never be sure.
Each episode sends the suitors on a challenge or Regency-era activity. The Daily Tea, a thinly veiled knockoff of Lady Whistledown’s Society Papers, announces plans for the day. They dance at a welcome ball complete with costumed extras, row Rémy and her court to a lakeside picnic, and compete in games of cricket. And eventually, one lucky gentleman wins a date.
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