Everything We Know About ‘Queen Charlotte’ Season 2 On Netflix

Queen Charlotte, the Bridgerton spin-off prequel, is currently planted at #1 on Netflix. But being a series mainly set in the past (even if there are present day storylines you should watch before season 3), it stands to reason that this may not be a show that gets a season 2, and was meant to be a one-off offering.

But is that true? Maybe not.

First of all Queen Charlotte is performing extremely well for Netflix. They just announced that it has gotten almost 150 million viewing hours since it debuted less than a week ago. The show also has a 93% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and an 85% audience score, which is actually higher than both season 1 and 2 in both categories, making it arguably the best Bridgerton installment so far, despite its smaller size and almost entirely new cast.

So, performance is one thing, but the best indicator that we might get a season 2 of Queen Charlotte is from creator Shonda Rhimes herself, who is open to the possibility even if this was originally meant to be a standalone tale:

“There have been questions, but I’m not having conversations about it yet,” Rhimes told EW. “I could live with Charlotte and George forever, but we told a very specific, closed-ended story that I think is a complete tale of this complicated, imperfect love. But I’m not ruling anything out because I never know.”

Actress Arsema Thomas reiterated that she would love to come back for the role of young Agatha again:

“I never thought I could love like this until I had my own child. I feel like I gave birth, and Shonda Rhimes is her daddy. I am the mommy. It would be amazing to inhabit that space again,” Thomas said. “But also where we’ve left her off now, she’s a good space. If that’s the last time I get to be her, she’s empowered and she’s ready to walk on her own two feet. But if I do get a call for doing it again, I will take it.”

However, it is certainly the case that Bridgerton is not short on source material, given loads of books that it still needs to get through. As one of Netflix’s best-performing originals I imagine it will get through all those books. Queen Charlotte is indeed a book (co-authored by Rhimes?), but I just wonder how they’ll balance these spin-offs and main seasons, and if that would require Rhimes to delegate more.

Still, with the great reception and big viewership hours and Rhimes willing to return, my guess is we do see a second season here in this earlier timeline, but nothing has been announced just yet.

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