The Gilded Age features characters eager for significant changes that rarely occur, creating a captivating atmosphere. Season two focused on the opera-wars storyline, sidelining secondary characters. Improvements in season three include more balanced character development, maintaining suspense about potential transformations. Marian is now romantically linked to Larry Russell, while the Van Rhijn household has shifted power, with Ada taking control over finances. Despite her new interests, Ada maintains existing dynamics in the household, exemplifying the show's intricate character relationships and possibilities of crisis.
The Gilded Age, like its creator's previous TV series Downton Abbey, lives in an infinitesimally small zone of consequences. At any moment, every character is quite sure something enormous is about to take place.
One of the show's most satisfying improvements over seasons one and two is its ability to maintain reasonable doubt about big changes on the horizon for most of its major characters.
Season two was dominated largely by an exquisite opera-wars storyline, and although Bertha Russell's eventual victory was reason enough for the season to exist, it did leave many of the secondary characters by the wayside.
Season three, however, is performing a much more effective juggling act. Marian is now engaged in an incipient romance with the Russells' son Larry.
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