The American Gilded Age was a period of immense economic change, of great conflict between the old ways and brand new systems, and of huge fortunes made and lost. Season two of THE GILDED AGE begins on Easter morning 1883, with the news that Bertha Russell's bid for a box at the Academy of Music has been rejected. Through the eight episodes of the season, we watch as Bertha challenges Mrs. Astor and the old system and works to not only gain a foothold in Society, but to potentially take a leading role in it. George Russell takes on his own battle with a growing union at his steel plant in Pittsburgh. In the Brook House, Marian continues her journey to find her way in the world secretly teaching at a girls school while much to everyone’s surprise Ada begins a new courtship. Of course, Agnes approves of none of it. In Brooklyn, the Scott family begins to heal from a shocking discovery, and Peggy taps into her activist spirit through her work with T. Thomas Fortune at the NY Globe. From creator Julian Fellowes (“Downton Abbey”), the new season of The Gilded Age will be available to on October 29, only on Max.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 [GROAN]
00:05 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:07 New York is where society puts itself on display.
00:10 The leaders meet each other, and their children
00:12 court each other.
00:14 The old guard think they can keep out
00:15 the new people with impunity, but nothing
00:17 stays the same forever.
00:19 Change came from the American Revolution,
00:22 but it was difficult to live through all the same.
00:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:26 I intend to bring the great city of New York,
00:28 the opera house it deserves.
00:30 The young members of the Academy
00:32 are very determined it should not succeed.
00:35 You'll need to pick a team.
00:37 That's it.
00:38 Head to head, and one will be the winner.
00:40 Mrs. Russell is even more of a fighter than I had realized.
00:43 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:45 Is there any chance I could come back to 61st Street?
00:49 Agnes would welcome you back with open arms.
00:51 I never dreamt that I might still fall in love,
00:54 but I wonder what Agnes will think.
00:57 Cousin Dashiell?
00:58 He's taken a real interest in Mariam.
01:00 But I don't just want a husband, Aunt Ada.
01:03 He is rich.
01:04 He's even handsome.
01:05 What more could a girl ask for?
01:07 We're covering the opening of a new school in Tuskegee.
01:10 You have never been South.
01:11 I need to show the world they're
01:12 high-colored people making something of their lives.
01:15 [CHANTING]
01:16 Things are worse than I thought.
01:18 Your workers will pay barely enough to put food on the table.
01:21 Why must I be the villain in every story?
01:22 I have lifted whole towns out of poverty.
01:25 You're making a terrible mistake.
01:27 Stop being so selfish.
01:28 I won't be put in a cage.
01:30 Have you forgotten that you live here at my pleasure?
01:34 I'm afraid we have a serious problem.
01:37 I cover all your backs, but who's covering mine?
01:41 There are no guarantees anymore, and that's what this is.
01:47 You seem to have won the first battle.
01:49 I intend to win the war.
01:50 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:51 [GASPS]
01:52 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:55 Please.
01:57 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:04 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:07 [BLANK_AUDIO]