It’s official: Miss Scarlet is returning for Season 6, and we couldn’t be happier about it. Many fans (ourselves included) were initially apprehensive about the changes the series undergoes in the absence of Stuart Martin’s The Duke, yet as we’ve seen with the thrilling fifth season, the series still soars, and this arc is basically tailor-made for the softies—the bookworms who love a good single-dad trope romance.
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In addition to the series regulars, Miss Scarlet Season 6 will also see the return of a beloved character we’ve been desperately missing, Ansu Kabia’s Moses Valentine. Moses has not only been a crucial friend and confidant to Eliza, but he’s always the most entertaining character when he’s on our screen, so surely we aren’t the only viewers who always feel his absence.
Further, after the way things transpired in Season 4, we don’t want to make the assumption that the series will give us a happy ending, yet it’s so hard not to believe it will when the Season 5 finale clearly sets up a new partnership with Eliza and Inspector Blake. However, according to the official PBS press release, we might not be that delusional in hoping that the show will give us something more than a will they/won’t they.
The logline reads: “As Eliza and Blake’s once-fraught relationship begins to evolve, they find that working together may be a tricky prospect.” The word evolve here has heart eyes bursting from us, with the hopes that the evolution we’re seeing is more than just a friendship.
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Ultimately, Miss Scarlet Season 6 can be the show’s strongest run yet if it delivers a romance to showcase how a woman can be strong and independent while simultaneously having love beside her. The belief that love and independence can’t coexist is a tired way of acknowledging that women can’t have it all, which undermines the purpose of feminism and the equality we consistently fight to achieve. In other words, here’s to hoping.
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