The question of when everyone will finally undress arises in the fifth episode at the latest.

It's the moment that season one took center stage on the joyful married life of Daphne Bridgerton and her Duke of Hastings.

We remember: Daphne, the pretty debutante from a wealthy family, absolutely wants to marry for love, errs and tangles around a bit and is generally annoyed by the hype about her person, ends up with the very good-looking Duke Simon - unfortunately in the second season is painfully absent - and then it's down to business.

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It doesn't really get down to business this time, because the second season tells the story of the oldest Bridgerton son Anthony (Jonathan Bailey), who not only stands between two sisters, but above all himself.

The older sister is Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley), who devotes her life primarily to the upbringing and successful marriage of her younger sister Edwina and does not feel that she is entitled to anything herself.

Edwina (Charithra Chandran) is a pretty, lovely, approachable debutante and looking for the best match possible.

Because the Sharmas do not come from an orderly background.

The mother, Lady Mary, eloped with a humble Indian worker

Kate is her stepdaughter and, given these circumstances, her relationship with her ancestors is still shattered years later.

Inheritance, according to the condition, only occurs if at least Edwina marries befitting her status.

To this end, the Sharmas are quartered with the influential Lady Danbury (Adjoa Andoh), a maid of the Queen who does her best for Edwina.

And Anthony Bridgerton is a natural fit as a wealthy bachelor.

Embarrassing for everyone involved

Anthony, on the other hand, doesn't necessarily believe that marriage has to have much to do with love, and in general he seeks a woman more out of a sense of duty than conviction.

So Edwina is a thoroughly sensible decision.

Unfortunately, Anthony has irrational moments from time to time, like lying in mud holes with Kate or bumping into her randomly somewhere because they both seem to lose all body control in each other's presence.

Then they stand too close together and breathe down the back of their necks, and you can already guess where this is going.

But it will take a bit longer this time, so please be patient.

Accordingly, there is a lot going on again in this fictionalized London.

As in the first season, the events are accompanied by the dispatches of the mysterious Lady Whistledown, of whom we already know who is behind her.

Namely Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), the youngest of the Featherington sisters, all of whom the mother of the unfortunately bankrupt family is trying very hard to bring under the hood.

This Lady Portia smells dawn when, after the death of her husband, an heir appears, an overseas cousin and apparently wealthy owner of gem mines.

We also get to watch Penelope's blue-stocking friend Eloise Bridgerton make her forced debut this season instead of being allowed to read a book in peace.

It's embarrassing for everyone involved, because the lanky, always far too direct Eloise isn't exactly an ornament at social occasions that demand larger wardrobes and chiseled manners.

However, the fact that she will not be married off right away is good news, because in this way she will stay with us for more seasons and will not be banished to the country with her husband and child.

As multiethnic and mixed as Shonda Rhime's "Bridgerton" world is with modern borrowings, the basic conditions are those of Regency society: increasing wealth, maintaining the family by creating heirs, honorable connections and conforming behavior, otherwise there is a risk of social exclusion.

A little more could happen in the second season, however, because the world is now widely known, the mysterious gossip-author has been identified, and the love story obeys the iron laws of the genre.

One could have easily added one or two intrigues.

But of course viewers get what they tuned in for: beautiful people, big robes of very dubious historical accuracy, entertaining interpersonal frictions of all kinds, drama, indomitable emotions, and all in a colorful variety - the perfect escapism.

Bridgerton

season two airs on Netflix.