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: George and Bertha Russell (Morgan Spector and Carrie Coon) have built a railroad and banking empire from nothing. They are nouveau riche — "new rich." Their palace, a château-style granite behemoth rising across 61st Street, is twice the size of any old-money home. It is a declaration of war. George is a ruthless, brilliant industrialist who crushes striking workers' unions and corners markets. But his real battle is at home. Bertha, a woman of ferocious, almost primal ambition, has one goal: to force Old New York to accept her. She wants a box at the Academy of Music (the old guard's opera house). She wants her daughter, Gladys, to marry a European title. And she will spend staggering sums on gowns, parties, and servants to buy her way up the unyielding social ladder.

Directly across the street, however, a wrecking ball has been swung at that very principle. the gilded age temporada 01

In the spring of 1882, a young woman named Marian Brook stood on the platform of a gritty New York City train station. Orphaned and nearly penniless after the death of her father, she had left behind the quiet, faded gentility of Pennsylvania for the roaring, chaotic promise of Manhattan. She was about to become a pawn in a lavish, cutthroat war—a war for the very soul of American high society. This was the world of . : George and Bertha Russell (Morgan Spector and

The series, created by Julian Fellowes (of Downton Abbey fame), opens a vivid window onto a specific ten-year boom period (1870-1900) coined by Mark Twain: an era of staggering industrial growth, grotesque wealth inequality, and thin "golden" gilding covering a framework of ruthless ambition and social struggle. George is a ruthless, brilliant industrialist who crushes

Marian, after a disastrous near-elopement with a dishonest suitor (the handsome but broke Tom Raikes), returns to her aunts’ house, sadder but wiser. And Peggy, having reconciled with her estranged parents, decides to stay in Manhattan to pursue her dream of writing.

The first season’s engine is the clash between these two worlds.