The HBO series from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes doesn't even work as expensive-looking escapism.
The setting for HBO’s “The Gilded Age” is 1880s New York, nearly half a century before zippers would appear on garments. And yet there they are, running up the backs of women’s gowns in Season 2, suggesting the show’s budget is no match for the illusion it so desperately hopes to peddle. You know it’s bad when a series preoccupied with opulence can’t even deliver when it comes to the costumes. Let’s look at it another way.
Her primary concern this season is an “opera battle,” which sounds more interesting than it is, but it’s a storyline that seems loosely based on that of Alva Vanderbilt, who did indeed successfully break into high society despite the odds, and then backed the founding of a new — and rival — opera house in New York. She represents new money.
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