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Much of that ingredient comes from their new neighbors Bertha and George Russell, played by Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector, social climbers whose objectives to not only carve out a niche for themselves in wealthy circles but grow their already-impressive fortune earn them plenty of enemies in the process.Ĭoon's performance in The Gilded Age is astounding, a delicate balancing act that lands somewhere between ambition and callousness, with her character's outwardly collected facade crafted by a combination of draping her figure in devastatingly gorgeous dresses (serious hat tip to costume designer Kasia Walicka-Maimone) and pretending not to care what anyone thinks about her.Ĭynthia Nixon is a much gentler foil as Agnes' sister Ada, a spinster who depends wholly on her sister's generosity and shares her home - and the Odd Couple-esque dynamic between the two injects a much-needed dose of levity into what would otherwise be an acutely harsher drama. In private, Bertha's desperation to be accepted by her peers - who already look down on her because the modern means by which the family acquired its fortune are considered in poor taste - drives her toward hosting lavish parties and literally throwing money around, which in turn only puts her on the receiving end of more scorn. RELATED: Cynthia Nixon on 'Ratched', Whether She'd Join 'AHS', & Julian Fellowes' 'The Gilded Age' It seems there's nothing she can do correctly, so instead, she and her husband decide to stop playing by society's rules and start making their own.
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The show's main focus is undeniably wrapped up in this element of wealth - who has it, who wants it, and who may be willing to do anything to keep it. Even if it does give us a glimpse into the inner lives of those characters in the employ of the van Rhijn sisters or the Russells, those plotlines are more relegated to the sidelines than they were when Fellowes was lingering on the divide between upstairs and downstairs in his previous series.