![]() ![]() (Cut to me saying the same thing to a friend who I found out was socializing in Brooklyn with people who were born in the year 1999.) Agnes treats the mixing of the worlds as an act of violence. “You belong to Old New York, my dear, and don’t let anybody tell you anything different,” Aunt Agnes tells Marian at one point, not so much as prim etiquette advice but as a ferocious warning. And then there’s the extreme seriousness with which this conversation about wealth and class is parsed and weaponized. ![]() The production is massive rather than one countryside estate and its inhabitants, here we’re sauntering through an entire city of palatial homes and their occupants. There’s a reason one review has compared The Gilded Age to “ Downton Abbey on steroids.” The costumes are somehow even more ornate. Each rejection is like water, only making her more rabid, even feral, in her pursuit. But Bertha is like a social-climbing Gremlin. As for Bertha, her borderline terrifying determination to pummel her way into the fortress of Old Society and, more audacious, be accepted by them disgusts Agnes and her circle of friends. Marian’s progressive ideals alarm Aunt Agnes, particularly when it comes to her indifference to associating with those outside of her class, be it someone who lacks their wealth and pedigree, or the menacing “New Money” families like the Russells. I was not,” she tells the more open-minded and innocent Ada. ““You were allowed the tranquil life of a spinster. ![]()
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