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Despite its initial promising start, Belgravia: The Next Chapter has become something of a muddle, crammed with what feels like a half dozen subplots that don't get the depth they deserve and a narrative that's all too content to use Frederick's abundant (and annoying)
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After a season that often felt like it was struggling to get to the point, the endgame of Belgravia: The Next Chapter is finally in full swing. The penultimate episode is stuffed to bursting with subplots, surprise revelations, emotional meltdowns, and unexpected twists. This hour goes so hard that it&
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Secrets abound as Belgravia: The Next Chapter continues, most of which seem as though they're inevitably on a collision course with one another. A briskly paced hour that feels much more propulsive than last week's meandering installment, we're treated to everything from forbidden love
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Anyone who's still watching Belgravia: The Next Chapter probably has to be asking the same question at this point in the series: What on earth are we doing here? Five episodes into its run, it really shouldn't be this hard to identify the series' primary
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This episode marks the halfway point of Belgravia: The Next Chapter, and everybody in London's poshest neighborhood is just straight up not having a good time. It's possible viewers aren't either. Don't get me wrong, this episode has a couple of genuinely
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Though he didn't appear in last week's episode, James Trenchard's presence loomed large over multiple storylines in the world of Belgravia: The Next Chapter. So much so that it's almost a relief to see Toby Regbo onscreen in this third installment, though
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There's a reason period dramas usually end with a wedding rather than start with one. Marriage isn't easy, nor do the adjustments required to build a life with someone else always make for compelling television. As Belgravia: The Next Chapter continues, Frederick and Clara's
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For some viewers, the idea of Belgravia: The Next Chapter likely arrives as something of a surprise. The next chapter of what, they might ask, having completely missed out on the original Belgravia despite its buzzy behind-the-scenes pedigree. (The series was one of creator Julian Fellowes' first projects after
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At times, Belgravia was exactly what period drams ought to aspire to be - entertaining, with plenty of fancy dresses, soapy gossip, and entertaining upper-class problems. Unfortunately, the show's final hour veers far too frequently into essentially pointless melodrama, complete with continually scheming servants, actual murder attempts, blackmail
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The penultimate episode of Belgravia is an overstuffed hour of circuitous fake-outs, secrets, and surprise revelations that ultimately feel like they go nowhere, pushing the ultimate pay-off of the truth about Charles Pope's identity to the finale. In all honesty, it's so unnecessary. Would it have
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As Belgravia continues, everyone's secrets boil ever closer to the surface in an hour mainly serving as a holding pattern for future revelations. This story's two-steps-forward, five-steps-back nature is highly frustrating, as at least three different sets of characters inch ever closer to discovering the series&
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Part of the reason the third episode of Belgravia feels a bit lackluster is simply the fact that the series’ two best characters are largely absent from it. It’s not that Caroline and Anne are particularly heroic or good people. But they’re at least complex enough to make