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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.

Morgan Spector, Carrie Coon, and Harry Richardson in HBO's The Gilded Age Season 3.
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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.