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The creator of “Downtown Abbey” this time tells the story of the evolution of morals at the end of the 19th century, in the new world of New York. Families falling apart, gossip galore, the nouveau riche trying to oust others, and in the middle, racism, workers’ strikes as the country industrializes.
Published on 05/11/2023 09:14 Updated on 05/11/2023 12:18
Reading time: 92 min The Van Rhijn family will not be stepped on by these nouveau riche (Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Louisa Jacobson) (HBO)
New York 1883. Two houses facing each other on 61st Street. The owner of one is an aristocrat. Opposite, a nouveau riche, railway industrialist and his wife who are trying to make their mark. The civil war is over. And everyone pushes their pawns. A large, colorful fresco broadcast every week on Prime Video’s Warner pass.
As in his famous series Downtown Abbey, Julian Fellowes seeks to show the evolution of morals, not this time in the United Kingdom but in the United States. The first quality of The Giided Age, is to look at the flaws of this so-called Golden Age. For this, Julian Fellows invented a range of characters.
First there is the wife of the rich entrepreneur who is entirely focused on how to be accepted in this new world. The season essentially revolves around access to the opera. The venerable New York Music Academy refused him a lodge. So with other nouveau riche, she inquired about building the Metropolitan Opera.
In the house opposite, the rigid Agnès sketched with ferocity by Christine Baranski does not spare these newcomers any tripping. And all around, there are the children, the relationships that mingle more happily, the famous American melting pot. Starting with an orphan niece who arrived from her native Pennsylvania who does not disdain giving painting lessons to the nouveau riche, and a young black writer who begins to write for a community newspaper and recounts the ambient racism in the southern states.
The other asset of this second season of The Gilded Age, these are the luxurious sets and costumes, the elegant reconstructions of New York at the end of the 19th century. This season is not the most exciting, as dense as was Dowtown Abbey, but it frankly constitutes, in these moments of distressing information, a pleasant escape. Episodes are released weekly on Prime Video’s Warner Pass. The first episode is already available.
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2023-11-05 08:14:40
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