The series is set during America's Golden Age, a period of immense economic change, of great conflicts between the old customs and brand-new systems and of enormous fortunes being made and lost.
Season two of The Gilded Age opens on Easter morning, 1883, with the news that Bertha Russell's (Carrie Coon) bid for a box set at the Academy of Music has been rejected. Throughout the season, Bertha challenges Mrs. Astor (Donna Murphy) and the old system and tries not only to gain a foothold in society, but possibly to play a leading role in it.
George Russell (Morgan Spector) takes on his own battle with a growing union at his Pittsburgh steel mill. At Brook House, Marian (Louisa Jacobson) continues her journey in the world by secretly teaching at a girls' school, while Ada (Cynthia Nixon) begins a new relationship to everyone's surprise. Of course, Agnes (Christine Baranski) doesn't like any of that.
In Brooklyn, the Scott family begins to recover from a shocking discovery, and Peggy (Denée Benton) taps into her activist spirit through her work with T. Thomas Fortune at the New York Globe.
From Sunday, October 29, the second season of The Gilded Age can be seen on HBO and Max.
Julian Fellowes is the creator/writer/executive producer of the historical drama. Bob Greenblatt, Gareth Neame, Salli Richardson-Whitfield and David Crockett also serve as executive producers alongside director Michael Engler and writer Sonja Warfield. The Gilded Age is a co-production between HBO and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
Check out even more first-look photos and a teaser for The Gilded Age's second season below.
