One of them does take an interest in Lucy. The vicious, wealthy men she willingly supplied with unsuspecting victims soon make witnesses to Quigley’s crimes reluctant to speak out.
Quigley, a white woman who is complicit in the rape and murder of other women and the rampant abuse of those who work in her brothel, merely has to come up with an absurdly high amount of money.īut as most wealthy and connected people do, she has power even while imprisoned. She kicks off the season by getting arrested, although her sentence isn’t nearly as harsh as a more impoverished woman of color who works the street and ends up getting literally branded for a petty crime. Surprisingly, Quigley seems in danger of combusting without her help. Her daughter Charlotte is still working for her ruthless rival Lydia Quigley while secretly plotting Lydia’s demise. The other women she works for are also growing increasingly distant. However, he leaves soon after, still wrestling with the part he played in the murder. She’s thrown out Harriet, the woman she helped, for the feelings she correctly suspects she harbors for her lover William. She seemed to have gotten away with murder last season, and that still seems to be true.
HARLOTS SEASON 2 SERIES
It’s an exceptionally bad time for up-and-coming brothel owner Margaret Wells to be going through a series of personal crises. In the era #MeToo, the show has even more to say about how women from all walks of life suffer under a system that gives men all the power over their lives.
Unlike The Handmaid’s Tale, another show where women fight for ownership of their bodies and lives, Harlots delves right into how race and class shape such battles, and it does it well.
The women of the show are beginning to suffer far more serious consequences for their infractions, and it’s those who are impoverished who suffer the most. The bawdy 18 th century is showing signs of giving way to the more puritanical, evangelical 19 th. Call it a byproduct of its subject matter, which happens to be about prostitutes in 1763 London, a time when one in five women made their living that way.īut in the season 2 premiere, the times they are a-changin’. Harlots was always a show with quite a bit on its mind.
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