Overview

• The third season launched June 22 with eight episodes airing Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO, streaming on Max through August 10.
• It deepens the power struggle between established families like the Van Rhijns and the newly wealthy Russells in 1880s New York.
• Bertha Russell orchestrates a bid to marry daughter Gladys to the Duke of Buckingham, while husband George risks their fortune on a transcontinental railroad scheme.
• Across the street, Agnes van Rhijn grapples with her sister Ada’s ascendancy after Ada inherits a fortune, upending household dynamics.
• Subplots include Peggy Scott’s romance with a Newport physician facing familial disapproval, and the arrival of figures such as Dr. William Kirkland, Mrs. Elizabeth Kirkland and financier J.P. Morgan.