The second season of The Gilded Age proves showrunner Julian Fellowes is incapable of telling this story with the gravitas and truth it requires.
Carrie Coon is terrific throughout, elevating each stroke of Fellowes’ script with the most minute of facial expressions and body language.
Why is The Gilded Age’s chief scribe reluctant to lampoon his characters who actively uphold and benefit from a privileged society?
The Gilded Age Episode 6 opens upon the wreckage of a train derailment. Akash Singh leads us through where things go from there.
The Gilded Age is, at its core, a story of hypocrisy, but can audiences count on Julian Fellowes to deliver the full critique?
The Gilded Age is an exquisitely designed and barbarous soap opera and, in that vein, it is often remarkably unsubtle.