The Gilded Age Will Get a Lot More Operatic – S2

The second season of HBO’s The Gilded Age (premiering October 29) will amp up the stakes, along with the lavish production design. As we see in these first-look images and a new trailer, debuting exclusively on VF.com, the late-19th-century swells of the Upper East Side are back at it in extravagant fashion—while their maids and cooks and butlers scurry about the mansion basements attending to … Continue reading The Gilded Age Will Get a Lot More Operatic – S2

The Gilded Age’ Finale: Writers Talk Mrs. Russell’s “Ultimate Triumph” & Their Progress on S2

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Julian Fellowes and Sonja Warfield also discussed the real-life event that inspired one of the episode’s juiciest moments and the robber barons with “a pretty primitive moral code” who informed George Russell. [This story contains major spoilers from the finale of HBO’s The Gilded Age season one.] Carrie Coon’s Bertha Russell emerged triumphant on Monday night’s finale of … Continue reading The Gilded Age’ Finale: Writers Talk Mrs. Russell’s “Ultimate Triumph” & Their Progress on S2