Queen Charlotte’s gay butlers deserve a full spinoff

polygon.com:

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story is a fulfilling miniseries in its own right, but more importantly, it opened the door to the full potential of the Bridgerton universe. There is a world of sweeping romance and steamy sex beyond the current alphabetical lineup of Bridgerton siblings! Lady Danbury’s single lady adventures, anybody? Set against the backdrop of young Violet meeting Edmund?

But there is one romance in Queen Charlotte that I most want to see in its own six-episode miniseries: the epic saga of Reynolds (Freddie Dennis) and Brimsley (Sam Clemmett), the king and queen’s butlers.

[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.]

In the second episode of Queen Charlotte we learn Reynolds, the king’s personal headservant, and Brimsley, top butler to the queen, are not only colleagues, but lovers. The show does not reveal how long this love affair has been going on, but it’s clear by the easy way they fall into bed together that it’s been happening even before Charlotte arrived in England.

In the past plotline, we get to see more of their relationship. It’s never one they can openly reveal, but despite it all, the pair do share some happy intimate moments. They bathe together. They find moments to sneak away and have sex. They dance off to the side at the ball when no one is watching. It’s certainly a complicated happiness, since they can never fully be with one another, but they’ve found a way to make it work, using the duties of their job as an advantage in this situation.

Of course, their love story takes a bittersweet turn when you realize that we don’t see Reynolds at all in the present day timeline. It could very well be that he is just off attending to George at Kew; after