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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Nov 27, 2021 9:16:53 GMT
The Gilded Age will receive its UK premiere on Sky Atlantic on Tuesday January 25th (time-slot TBC).
The Gilded Age is set during the American gilded age, a period of immense economic change, of great conflict between the old ways and brand new systems, and of huge fortunes made and lost.
The series opens in 1882 with young Marian Brook moving from rural Pennsylvania to New York City after the death of her father to live with her thoroughly old money aunts Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook. Accompanied by Peggy Scott, an aspiring writer seeking a fresh start, Marian inadvertently becomes enmeshed in a social war between one of her aunts, a scion of the old money set, and her stupendously rich neighbors, a ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife, George and Bertha Russell.
Exposed to a world on the brink of the modern age, will Marian follow the established rules of society, or forge her own path?
The drama series, which was created by Julian Fellowes, stars Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Denée Benton, Louisa Jacobson, Taissa Farmiga, Blake Ritson, Simon Jones, Harry Richardson, Thomas Cocquerel, Jack Gilpin, with Cynthia Nixon, Christine Baranski, Ben Ahlers, Michael Cerveris, Kelley Curran, Claybourne Elder, Linda Emond, Katie Finneran, Amy Forsyth, Michel Gill, Ward Horton, Bill Irwin, Sullivan Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Nathan Lane, Audra McDonald, Debra Monk, Donna Murphy, Kristine Nielsen, Kelli O’Hara, Patrick Page, Taylor Richardson, Douglas Sills, John Douglas Thompson, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Erin Wilhelmi.
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Post by geometryman on Nov 28, 2021 7:47:49 GMT
Julian Fellowes has been working on it for years, and it's finally arrived. I'll give it a try, but I've a feeling it won't prove as addictive for me as Downton Abbey. Big cast, but I only recognise two names in it (Cynthia Nixon & Jeanne Tripplehorn).
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Post by geometryman on Jan 26, 2022 8:30:35 GMT
Seen episode 1 - a good start to a lavish production. There's a lot of characters to take in. I think my instinct may have been wrong, and it is likely to prove as addictive as Downton Abbey.
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Post by beverley61 on Jan 26, 2022 13:16:05 GMT
It'll be a hard ask with so many characters not to mention so many 'downstairs' characters. I might watch the next one but still remain to be convinced. So far I didn't particularly like anyone.
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Post by pearl06 on Feb 25, 2022 18:27:17 GMT
I am watching it. I am half way into episode 2. As you say the characters are not very nice, apart from Ada and the herione whose name escapes me for the moment.
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Post by beverley61 on Feb 25, 2022 20:44:53 GMT
I've watched 3 and bailed. I just don't think I'm interested enough in what happens to rich people in New York.
With Downton even though there were fall outs and issues, everyone was essentially decent.
In this almost everyone seems mean or to have an ulterior motive.
Sort of makes you glad they all emigrated!!
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