"Poldark" Season 3 is expected to premiere in 2017 on BBC One. (Photo : Getty Images/Karwai Tang)
"Poldark" Season 2 just premiered on BBC and there's definitely a lot to expect from the show this year.
The sophomore season is definitely going to be darker and more dramatic than the previous one, especially since Ross (Aidan Turner) is facing trial for plundering the Warleggan shipwreck and inciting a riot. He might get hanged if proven guilty.
There are going to be a lot of scheming against Ross, especially with respect to George (Jack Farthing), who's hell-bent on pulling down Ross. George is funding Unwin Trevaunance's (Hugh Skinner) candidacy in Bodmin, where Ross' trial is set to take place. George's backing of Unwin is an attempt to further influence the proceedings against Ross. Meanwhile, Ross' ladyloves, Demelza and Elizabeth, are going to help him in every way they can so that Ross can avoid a death sentence.
Despite "Poldark" Season 2 painting doom for Ross, Turner has assured fans that Ross' journey is far from ending. "To the best of my knowledge I don't die," Turner told The Daily Mail. Sure enough, "Poldark" has been picked up for Season 3.
"Ross and Demelza have just lost their child, his company is down the pan, they're broke and he's been arrested. It looks like he's going to prison," Turner said about what's in store in "Poldark" Season 2.
Apart from that, there's going to be a rather steamy love triangle between Demelza, Ross, and his former flame Elizabeth. In the Winston Graham books, Poldark forced Elizabeth to have sex with him. For the series, however, the script has been re-made to make it less scandalous.
"It seems consensual and it just seems right. He goes to talk. He doesn't go to commit a crime," Turner told The Sun. They talk and it seems like there is still this spark between them, this unfinished business emotionally. Certainly, that's how Ross feels. He doesn't force himself upon her."
"Poldark" Season 2 will air 10 series on BBC starting Sept. 4, Sunday. The new season will pick up in 1794 and will be set during the "French Revolution, which casts a shadow over life in Cornwall."
