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The Gilded Age Season 3 Unveils Marital Machinations, Railroad Gambit and Power Shifts

Social ambition drives loyalties to fracture on 61st Street.

Overview

  • Bertha Russell intensifies efforts to marry daughter Gladys into British nobility, challenging her husband’s promise to let their child wed for love.
  • George Russell stakes the family fortune on a transcontinental railroad venture that could either secure their social standing or bankrupt them.
  • Ada van Rhijn’s inheritance of her late husband’s estate upends the Brook household’s hierarchy and tests sister Agnes’s authority.
  • Peggy Scott’s courtship of Dr. Kirkland spotlights racial and class tensions within New York and Newport’s elite circles.
  • Season 3 premieres June 22 on HBO and Max with eight episodes released weekly on Sundays, showcasing the series’ lavish design and period storytelling.