Season Three Of ‘The Gilded Age’ Is Rife With Power Shifts Among Society’s Elite

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Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector star in “The Gilded Age” as Bertha and George Russell. Photograph by Barbara Nitke/HBO “I think thematically the whole season [is] about who’s in charge; who is in charge in society, who’s in charge of marriages, who has the power. I think the power shift is relevant to all the stories and all the characters,” says Sonya Warfield, the co-writer and executive producer, about the new season of The Gilded Age. Set in the United Stated during the 1880s, the series follows several families navigating the social landscape of a city undergoing rapid change, rife with conflict between old and new money. The Gilded Age explores themes of social mobility, wealth, class, and the changing American society during a time of immense industrial growth. The series stars Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Cynthia Nixon, Christine Baranski, Louisa Jacobson, Taissa Farmiga, and Denee Benton. Along with Warfield, Julian Fellowes is the creator, the executive producer, and the co-writer of The Gilded Age. Coon and Spector play Bertha and George Russell who are very concerned with the trajectory of their daughter, Gladys (played by Farmiga), hoping to marry her off to an appropriate suitor, which Fellowes says is accurate for the time period. However, he points out that, “Marian is resistant to the idea of simply settling down. She wants her life to be something. She wants to do something that adds up to more than getting dressed for the opera or not being late for dinner. But in that society, it was very difficult for women who weren’t content to simply run the house and run the children and say, ‘Have you had a good day dear.’ That was not enough for them.” He adds, of Gladys’ story, much of which centers around her reluctance to adhere…