Oh, kittens…
We are SO there. Having recapped every episode of The Gilded Age showrunner Julian Fellowes’ Downton Abbey, as well as every episode of the first season of this show (and an interview with the costume designer Kasia Walicka-Maimone), is it any surprise that we’re fully on board for the long-awaited season two? Just look at these insane costumes:
One of the things we love most about Walicka-Maimone’s costume design is that she really indulges in the idea that Victorian fashion could get a little ugly and a LOT tacky. When everyone is trying desperately to out do everyone else, the level of excess gets to be overwhelming and even a little hard on the eyes. As for the upcoming season’s storylines, it looks like more of the same, encompassing Fellowes’ obsession with old vs. new society. We almost can’t believe we’re going to have another probably season-long storyline about Marian dating unsuitable men, but then again, Fellowes certainly loved returning to that well with each one of the Crawley daughters. At any rate, even with annoying Marian in the picture, we’ll be there recapping each episode as it airs, probably complaining the whole time about her.
From creator Julian Fellowes (“Downton Abbey”), the HBO Original drama series THE GILDED AGE returns for its eight-episode second season SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and will be available to stream on Max.
Logline: The American Gilded Age was a period of immense economic change, of great conflict between the old ways and brand new systems, and of huge fortunes made and lost. Season two of THE GILDED AGE begins on Easter morning 1883, with the news that Bertha Russell’s bid for a box at the Academy of Music has been rejected. Through the eight episodes of the season, we watch as Bertha challenges Mrs. Astor and the old system and works to not only gain a foothold in Society, but to potentially take a leading role in it. George Russell takes on his own battle with a growing union at his steel plant in Pittsburgh. In the Brook House, Marian continues her journey to find her way in the world secretly teaching at a girls school while much to everyone’s surprise Ada begins a new courtship. Of course, Agnes approves of none of it. In Brooklyn, the Scott family begins to heal from a shocking discovery, and Peggy taps into her activist spirit through her work with T. Thomas Fortune at the NY Globe.
Cast: Carrie Coon, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Morgan Spector, Louisa Jacobson, Denée Benton, Ben Ahlers, Michael Cerveris, Kelley Curran, Taissa Farmiga, Jack Gilpin, Simon Jones, Sullivan Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Debra Monk, Donna Murphy, Kristine Nielsen, Kelli O’Hara, Patrick Page, Harry Richardson, Taylor Richardson, Blake Ritson, Douglas Sills, Erin Wilhelmi, Nathan Lane, Audra McDonald, John Douglas Thompson, Ashlie Atkinson, Laura Benanti, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Christopher Denham, David Furr, Ward Horton, Matilda Lawler and Robert Sean Leonard.
Credits: Creator/writer/executive producer, Julian Fellowes; executive producer, Gareth Neame; executive producer, David Crockett; director/executive producer, Michael Engler; executive producer, Bob Greenblatt; writer/executive producer, Sonja Warfield; executive producer, Salli Richardson-Whitfield. THE GILDED AGE is a co-production between HBO and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
[Photo Credit: Barbara Nitke/HBO – Video Credit: HBO/YouTube]
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