‘The Gilded Age’ Relationship Recap: An Extremely Decent Proposal

Remember last week when Ada (Cynthia Nixon) reminded her sister Agnes (Christine Baranski) that marrying for money doesn’t always lead to happiness? I keep wondering why she would feel the need to say that out loud to a woman who has spent the first two episodes of this show talking about what a nightmare her marriage to her rich husband was. Ah, but such is The Gilded Ague (not a typo), and indeed the Julian Fellowes oeuvre more broadly: characters say and do whatever moves the plot along. Anyway, that’s something I thought about during all the railroad shares stuff… Read Full Article