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Costume designer Kasia Walicka Maimone dug deep into the lives of New York’s famous families: the Astors, the Goelets, the ...
The storyline, though fictional, echoes a very real chapter in Gilded Age history—the forced marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt, ...
The city’s long-standing connection to Black affluence and entrepreneurship is the focus of the latest season of HBO’s The ...
Marian Brook, I fear it is time, once again, for me to rant at you. (Or, you know, the writers who keep doing this to you.) ...
While many of the show’s characters are based on or inspired by real historical figures, J.P. Morgan is one of the few who is ...
The Gilded Age showrunners have insisted that certain developments in season three would not have been “achievable” if not for that shocking death. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...
HBO‘s The Gilded Age has always affirmed that Black people existed in American history. Not only that, but the intensely researched period drama doesn’t lean on colorblind casting, but real ...
In an age of dukes and debutantes, the real queens were celebrities in their own right, performing in private clubs—and ...