The Trailer for 'Mr. Malcolm's List' Promises Regency Romance and Revenge

Move over Anthony Bridgerton, a new Regency rake is in town. Arriving just in time to fill the Bridgerton-shaped hole in our hearts in the gap between Seasons 2 and 3 is Mr. Malcom's List, a Regency-set romantic comedy full of all the extravagant dresses, verbal barbs, and enemies-to-lovers Kathony-style vibes we could ask for.

Based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Allain, the 1800s-era story revolves around the titular Mr. Malcolm, a too-picky suitor in search of a wife with the help of a list of requirements that no human woman could ever hope to fulfill. But that may well change when he meets Selina, who seems manufactured in a lab to be his perfect match. But what he doesn't know is that she's on a mission of her own: Revenge.

Selina, you see, has been invited to London by her best friend Julia Thistlewaite, who was herself jilted and humiliated by Mr. Malcolm. And Julia has asked her friend to help her get back at him: By pretending to be his ideal match and publicly dumping him once he's in love, using the same sort of cruel

“If we present you as the perfect woman, then he discovers that he does not meet the requirements on your list, that would be a perfect sort of poetic justice,” Julia tells Selina in the new trailer.

But although Selina has agreed to con Mr. Malcom, the more time she spends with him, the more she realizes he's not the cold-hearted monster her friend has described, but rather an intelligent, emotionally vulnerable man who uses his reprehensible list as a shield to avoid giving his heart to a woman that might break it. An enemies-to-lovers romance ensues, and Selina will have to decide whether to betray her friendship with Julia or her own heart.

Watch the trailer for yourselves below.