This article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 3 of Hulu’s Harlots.
Looking back, it shouldn’t have been that surprising. All of the meta-clues were there.
Jessica Brown Findlay, best known for playing Lady Sybil on Downton Abbey, was an inspired casting choice for the dashing, daring lead role on Harlots, but Sybil’s most memorable Downton story arc was her surprising and untimely death in Season 3. The second clue was Alfie Allen’s appearance as an antagonist in this season of Harlots, fresh off his final episodes as Theon Greyjoy in notorious character-culler Game of Thrones.
What happens when you add a dash of Thrones to the already deadly underworld of Georgian London? A shocking early season twist that leaves Findlay’s Charlotte Wells dead in the foyer in Golden Square, helplessly bleeding out after a horrifying semi-accident involving Allen’s Isaac Pincher at the top of the stairs. At least Lady Sybil made it to Episode 5 of Downton Season 3. Charlotte only made it to Harlots Episode 3. Read more…
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