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‘We’re Running Out of Mansions’
How The Gilded Age makes absurdly low-stakes period drama into must-watch television.
But at the end of last season, her ne’er-do-well son, Oscar (Blake Ritson), lost her fortune in a scam, while Nixon’s do-gooder, Ada, received a surprise windfall, inheriting money from a now-dead husband, played by Robert Sean Leonard. New York critic Kathryn VanArendonk hypothesized in 2023 that, in The Gilded Age, “things that should be enormous do not actually matter all that much (a massive labor movement; getting married late in life and then being widowed immediately; racial segregation; the invention of electricity; financial ruin). In one mansion, I pass two crew members looking at what appears to be an antique mirror, asking each other, “Is this ours or theirs?” On a run along the Atlantic-facing Cliff Walk in front of those homes — Coon recommends it for exercise — I can see background actors in maid uniforms exiting buses on the way to the shoot.
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