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In physical pain reading the Deadline article about the new Age of Innocence series that was greenlit earlier this year

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silk dress, american, 1889.

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Some more pics from The Gilded Age season 3 premiere 💖

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THE GILDED AGE REWATCH ◈ Favorite Costumes in 1.09 "Let the Tournament Begin"

Costume Design: Kasia Walicka-Maimone

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Shared by Denée Benton (@deneebenton) on Instagram

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Blake Ritson as Oscar van Rhijn and Claybourne Elder as John Adams in a still for Season 3 Episode 2 of HBO's The Gilded Age

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Kelley Curran and Blake Ritson at The Gilded Age season 3 premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, June 12, 2025

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🖌️ On the Pier ~

Gabriel Charles Déneux (Frankrijh 1856~1926)

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THE GILDED AGE (2022-) — 2x06: "Warning Shots"

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You couldn't be happy if it meant being cruel. If we act any other way I'll be making you act against what I love in you most. And I can't go back to that way of thinking. Don't you see? I can't love you unless I give you up.

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993) DIR. MARTIN SCORSESE

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bustles, c. 1880s-90s.

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DENEE BENTON as PEGGY SCOTT in

⏤ THE GILDED AGE S3 TRAILER

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THE GILDED AGE REWATCH ◈ 1.05 "Charity Has Two Functions"

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Also I talk a good game but the two things I got most hyped over in this episode were Ada's sewing box and Oscar's dressing gown. Nothing I love more that a neat object.

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Mildly obsessed with Bridget this episode. She has a new dress! They're styling her hair nicely again! She's done with Agnes and Ada's nonsense! She's reading her book! (Thinking about "I get by" as her answer to Armstrong's taunt about whether she can read in s1--desperately now want a fic about her teaching herself to read better while everyone else is having their own drama in s2.) In my dreams she gets her own plot this season, or at the very least gets attached to Jack's alarm clock plot in an interesting way, though I'm already bracing for these dreams to be dashed.

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Once again the alarm clock plotline is giving me life. I love the way they're highlighting the weird awkward gaps in Jack and Larry's partnership--Jack being half a part of the conversation at dinner and half an invisible servant; the coffee incident; neither of them having the ability to function in the other's world (Jack having no access to the investors Larry can meet with, Larry having no actual knowledge of Jack's invention).

And the scene with Adelheid suggests a really interesting facet of Jack's journey to explore as well: that once you start moving up the ladder of money and status, the people you used to be friends with might not want you or see you as the same person anymore. You end up belonging nowhere, neither with the people you left behind or with the new group that hasn't really accepted you. Which of course ties directly into the undergirding theme of so much of the show: What are the inward costs of outward success?

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This would likely be a good time to note that I don't tag for spoilers and will be watching the show right away on Sunday evenings, so please do avoid my blog if you'd like to remain unspoiled and haven't watched the most recent episode yet.