?The Gilded Age,? the lavish period drama from the creator of ?Downton Abbey,? is all surface and no shine
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Princess Diana’s
Carrie Coon
Bertha Russell
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Taissa Farmiga
Agnes van Rhijn
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Ada Brook
Cynthia Nixon
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Summary
And yet here we are with the escapist new period drama “The Gilded Age,” which takes as its chief concern the pearl-clutching clash between old and new money in 19th-century New York high society.Creator Julian Fellowes, who delivers his long awaited follow-up to “Downton Abbey” here, is naturally taken by the surface, rather than the rot underneath. But for major players like Agnes and Peggy, they serve as impediments to much-needed character development.It’s difficult to parse what exactly “The Gilded Age” adds to HBO’s roster of shows about terrible rich people, the latter a symptom of our own gilded era, in which the most consistent protest we can seemingly muster up is to make TV shows about how miserable our overlords must be on their private planes.
As said here by Inkoo Kang