The Gilded Age Temporada 01 [portable] Here

Directly across the street, however, a wrecking ball has been swung at that very principle.

: George and Bertha Russell (Morgan Spector and Carrie Coon) have built a railroad and banking empire from nothing. They are nouveau riche — "new rich." Their palace, a château-style granite behemoth rising across 61st Street, is twice the size of any old-money home. It is a declaration of war. George is a ruthless, brilliant industrialist who crushes striking workers' unions and corners markets. But his real battle is at home. Bertha, a woman of ferocious, almost primal ambition, has one goal: to force Old New York to accept her. She wants a box at the Academy of Music (the old guard's opera house). She wants her daughter, Gladys, to marry a European title. And she will spend staggering sums on gowns, parties, and servants to buy her way up the unyielding social ladder. the gilded age temporada 01

Marian, after a disastrous near-elopement with a dishonest suitor (the handsome but broke Tom Raikes), returns to her aunts’ house, sadder but wiser. And Peggy, having reconciled with her estranged parents, decides to stay in Manhattan to pursue her dream of writing. Directly across the street, however, a wrecking ball

The first season’s engine is the clash between these two worlds. It is a declaration of war