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2024 was brat summer, 2025 is geegaw summer

when you bedecked yourself in these geegaws

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Not me refreshing my ao3 page bc I’m desperate for George/Bertha content 🤪

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sorry i can’t go out tonight i’m at home sitting down

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This is how Larry and Gladys act by the way

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My biggest fear is that Julian Fellowes is like actually ruining the show so bad. The plot setup feels so cumbersome and forced and its like I’m being spoonfed my worst nightmare.

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THE GILDED AGE (2022-) SEASON 3 + ART HISTORY

Giovanni Boldini - Ritratto di Emiliana Concha de Ossa, 1888 Gladys Russell in Episode 1: Who Is In Charge Here?

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What Aurora needs to do before this season ends

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There’s a misconception that nothing happens in 'The Gilded Age'. That because it’s so lush, tonally restrained, and mostly centers on the ambitions and follies of incredibly privileged people, nothing’s really at stake here. But to think that is to fundamentally misunderstand the heart of the show. The unending work of managing how people perceive us, the desire to break out of boxes that society puts us in, the unignorable economic factors of finding a love match—aren’t these the dramas of our lives?

--Raymond Ang - We're All Aboard the Morgan Spector Train (GQ)

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Gonna add "bedecked myself in these geegaws" to my vocabulary.

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Winning in business and winning in society are linked. THE RUSSELLS in the SEASON 3 TEASER

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it's actually SO important to me that at the top of 2x02, when George goes to speak to Gladys about Oscar's proposal, that we follow him so closely through the house that Bertha arranged

We follow his journey among the servants that she may have interviewed, under the chandelier that she likely picked, along the hall with the deep red paint that she might've green-lit

and then into the lavishly furnished bedroom that she likely arranged for Gladys

WE COULD'VE JUST SMASH-CUT BUT NO

WE WATCH HIM WALK THROUGH THE REALITY THAT BERTHA HAS SO METICULOUSLY CONSTRUCTED

AND IT'S IN THIS METICULOUSLY CONSTRUCTED REALITY THAT GEORGE PROMISES GLADYS SHE CAN HAVE HER CHOICE

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It really is so heartbreaking how much Bertha loves Gladys. She’s speaking the hard truths of being a woman at the time because she KNOWS the obstacles that are ahead if Gladys chooses poorly.

And George sees her pain and just wants to instantly relieve it by letting her have what she wants.

And I think Gladys is just scared.

All our babies are coming from a place of care, and it’s society that is the cruel one 😭

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They really are going to painstaking lengths to explain the terms of divorce

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I haven’t watched episode 1 yet is it horrible?

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Look at them holding hands so sweetly <333 I'm so glad nothing is happening to them in s3 <333

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The Gilded Age (2022–present) 1x01 - Never the New

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They finally hit some kind of fundamental awareness? What the hell does that mean