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The Gilded Age (2022)

The Creator of Downton Abbey returns to the small screen with The Gilded Age, a period drama set in the late 1800s in the United States. When Marian Brook's father passes away, she leaves to move in with her two aunts, two well-to-do women at the center of New York City's social system. However, the old-money socialites find their world disrupted when a young and wealthy couple moves to New York, showing Marian there may be more to life than the rigid societal traditions of old.

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The Gilded Age
TV-MA
Drama
History

Cast
Carrie Coon , Morgan Spector , Louisa Jacobson , Denée Benton , Taissa Farmiga , Harry Richardson , Blake Ritson , Christine Baranski , Cynthia Nixon
Release Date
January 24, 2022
Seasons
1
Writers
Julian Fellowes , Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Directors
Michael Engler , Julian Fellowes , Deborah Kampmeier
Showrunner
Julian Fellowes

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