Why It's Okay Simon Isn't In Bridgerton Season 2
The surprise announcement that Regé-Jean Page wouldn't be returning for Bridgerton season 2 blindsided many, but it's okay that Simon isn't in it. The first season of the hit Netflix series, based on the book series by Julia Quinn, followed the intertwining stories of the Bridgerton and Featherington clans. However, the main narrative of the series was the evolving romance between and eventual marriage of Phoebe Dynevor's naive but pert Daphne Bridgerton and Page's mysterious Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings, in Regency Era London.
Though most of the cast was well-received and a few fan-favorite characters emerged, none broke out on a greater scale than Page as the Duke of Hastings. Thanks to his megawatt smile and charming charisma elevating the ever-popular «bad boy with a heart of gold» trope, Page injected the sultry series with boundless sex appeal and became the subject of many a piece of fanfic. With that breakout role, Page experienced a meteoric rise in Hollywood, tapped to guest-host Saturday Night Live, cast in the Russo brothers' buzzy Netflix thriller The Gray Man with Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling, and Ana de Armas, and landing a lead role in Paramount's big-budget Dungeons & Dragons movie.
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But with that came the announcement that Page's character would not be returning for the second season, throwing confusion into the works, as it seemed odd that a show would just get rid of one of its two main characters. However, the show will survive without Page and without Simon Basset. In fact, it's designed to. Quinn's series of novels is less one long narrative with the same central characters than it is an anthology, with each book focusing on a
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