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Jan 25, 2022This is a lavish soap opera where most of the characters are one-dimensional stereotypes. Julian Fellows has proven he is a great storyteller...but only when he sticks to what he knows. His America in the 1890s is a drama built on cliches. With a few exceptions the cast is a disappointment and after one episode I could already predict where most of the story-lines and relationships are going.
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Jan 27, 2022The first episode seemed to outline many of the battles by the characters holding big signs as they spoke. There was almost no reason to go further. If costumes and backdrops are what you want in an 1890's version of the Real Housewives is your thing this will please but if well-written rich drama that takes time to unfold is what you want then go elsewhere.
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Jan 25, 2022Amazing looking, with very particular attention to period details, and the costumes are gorgeous. But the characters are each about One Thing, which is typical of Julian Fellowes’s condescending writing. Plodding plotting, very predictable—although Christine Baransky and Cynthia Nixon are fun to watch.
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Jan 25, 2022
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Julian Fellowes delivers must-see TV with an all-star, Americanized spin on his beloved “Downton Abbey’ and creates a glittering feast for the eyes and ears. Is the series more playful than profound, more froth than substance? Maybe. It's also perfectly irresistible.
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The whole thing feels much too rote and timid for HBO—even if the costumes deliberately evoke modern sensibilities and wouldn’t be out of place on the ladies of And Just Like That, who are trying as resolutely to assert their relevance in a changing world as Agnes is. The mood is too saturnine, the occasional nods to social criticism too stilted.
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“The Gilded Age” may not offer penetrating insights into the late 19th century, or the vast gulf between tycoons building extravagant empires and the poverty of those at the bottom of the economic ladder. Fellowes and his collaborators instead seem focused on maintaining a light, satiric touch. It may not be illuminating, but “The Gilded Age” is undeniably entertaining.