If you prefer period drama about the top society, then let us present your next favorite tv series: “The Gilded Age”.
Made by Downton Abbey founder Julian Fellowes, the 10-episode HBO show is already bringing buzz because of its high-value throw and similarities to Downton Abbey and Gossip Girl.
In the 1880s, “The Gilded Age” tells the story of an orphaned lady called Marian Brook and her daughter of a Southern general who goes in with her aunts in NYC. She finds herself trapped up at the mysterious top echelons of Manhattan’s high society.
The show’s name, “The Gilded Age“, describes the life of wealthy New York families just such as the railroad magnates the Vanderbilts and publishing moguls the Hearsts when they established their own fortunes. The families gathered great wealth, owning palatial properties on huge grounds, an element which individuals have been very most likely to see function as the background of this series’s play.
The cast of “The Gilded Age”:
- Amanda Peet starring as Bertha Russell – a woman that wants to work her way into elite society
- Morgan Spector playing Bertha’s husband George – baron who always likes to win
- Marian Brook is yet to be cast, but Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski will play her two aunts
- Baranski will be starring as Agnes van Rhijn – young women’s marriage helped elevate her family’s standing into high society
- Nixon will play her sister Ada Brook – she is dependent on Agnes’ fortune
“The Gilded Age” next big project where Baranski and Nixon have worked together since they shared the screen in Addams Family Values 36 years ago.
There’s no official word about when the 10-episode series is going to air. Nevertheless, the series is now being filmed and in accordance with IMDb, seems to be set for release in 2021.
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