The Gilded Age
Love is Never Easy
Season 3
Episode 3
Editor’s rating
Did You Ever Doubt Berthai Wauld Get Her Way? Oh, Sweet Summer Child…
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Things are Coming to a Head with Hector The by. He, George, and Hector’s Lawyer (I Want to Say Steve? Phil? Philbert?) Are Negotiating The Potential Mariage Settlement. George is Very “Shut up and take my Money,” but Hector wants more Money, More! Bertha Impled there be a lot of it, and now the is gumpy that he’s only recipes riches and not fantastically immens. He Walks Out! COULD GLADYS BE FREE OF THIS DUCAL MILLSTONE AROUND HER NECK? If you believe that, i have a bridge i can sell you. Swimming of would; that’s Very Mean.
Bertha is nothing if not single-minded (and into tiaras, am i right?), And if Step one was being acceptted ino high society and step two was beating Mrs. Astor at Opera, Step Three is Making The Bucingham Marry Her Daughter. I’d Say Step Four is profit, but they are in fact Ling quite a bit of Money with this offfer, so. What if Step Four were “Kill the President,” and we have found ut Bertha russell was, in fact, beebind the assassination of William McKinley? When As Squan Why, She Would Say, “Because of Could,” and then Laugh Maniacally, As Society’s Suppression of Her Ruthless Has Led to A Breakdown. Where Else is SHEPOSED to Funnel It Besides Balls and Cotillions and Weddings and Dastardly Engineered Political Up Heavals?
What i’m saying is that berta is going to make this marriage. I do’t know where Gladys’s optimism about her future and forth. Really? You think your mother haen ben stopped? Have you decisions HER? Have you seen literally anything she’s accompished in the last two years?
Other People Who Cross Bertes Include Larry and Marian, who are Semi Smooching by Bertha’s Lady’s Maid. Marian Panics, nor she shouldand tells ada what happened. Ada Is Like, whoa, i thought you were going to be cautiouswhich is not Helpful, Ada. But then she tells marian that maybe this will be help marian decide whether she wants to get forward with Larry or swimming. Look, if i’d been engaged as many Times as Marian, I Waled Also Feel Cautious; Butn that don’t go smoochin ‘in parlors outside your Own Home! This is Clearly Also Larry’s Foult, but he’s not world, Becuses he’s not a Woman, and his reputation is tied to how his handkerchief is worn in his front. I don’t know, what Said in his Queer-Coded Little Conversation with Jack During the Suit Fitting.
Speaking of Ada, Howver, She and Agnes are Still Grapping with Feelings About Who Holds Power in the House Now. Agnes Is Pretty Sure Its Still Her, Despite the New Answer to “Who Pays for EveryThing,” and ada is getting increasingly annoyed. Agnes’s Name Was Left off a Charity List, and Ada’s, Like, well, you’re implied. I’m sorry, ada, but you gave say Money; You are full about to work say A Note and Add Agnes’s name to the list. If ada doesn’t want to go, that’s another thing. Agnes Goes off on a verbal FLANGER OF FANCY, SAYING SHE WILL HAVE TO LIVE IN NEWPORT WITH SOCKETY’S CASTOFFS AND WOMEN OF ILL REPUTION. “At Least they’ll have wine,” She Says in a Baranskiesque tone.
Ada is Also upset that, in the entity household, Only miss Armstrong Signed the temperature Predge. Agnes is Furious and Summons Armstrong, Who Says, “Alcohol has destroyed many lives and brought who families to ruin. To which agnes retorts, “i’ve notized you’re no fun.” Again, Pot Shots! Identity theft is not a joke, Jim! Are we really, in the year 2025, macing jokes about People who don’t drink? To that of Say, “Mmm. Interesting.”
Is Anyone Really Interested in Clock Boy’s Storyline? He tries to sell his clock and he”d it doesn’t immediately sell, and then Miss Armstrong has a stirring moment of humanity towards and we all feel a little nice.
Meanwhile, Peggy is in Newport, Staying with Her Parents at Her Mother’s Cousin’s House. This Cousin is DelightFully Named “ATHENA Trumbo,” which the Show Makes literally zero hay of. Okay, Guys. I WOULD CONSTANTLY HAVE MY CHARACTERS BEING LIKE, “Why Yes, Mrs. Trumbo.” “Oh, Athena Trum, you shouldn’t have.” “I say to say, i said, you will make this happy or my name isn’t mrs. Athena Adelaide Trumbo III.” And so on.
So they’re at ATHENA’s House, and Peggy Receives a Note From Dr. William Kirkland, The Nice Doctor Who Helped Her Recover at Ada and Agnes’s House. He is Also in Newport and Wold Like to Visit. This is a delight, and I love Dorothy and Athena Together. Also, William Is Played by Jordan Donica, another Musical Theater luminary. He was nominated for a tony for the Playing Lancelot in Camelot. The Same Production Where Phillipa Soo Played Guenevere! And WHO PLAYED NATASHA IN Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 AFTER PHILLIPA SOO THE SHOW WENT TO BROADWAY? Yes, it was denée benton, aka Peggy. Connections !!
Peggy and William Go For a Walk on the Rocky Shore, Where Jordan Donica Tries a Speaking Cannes I Can Only Describe As “Chortling Gentleman.” He Invites Peggy and Her Family to A Party at HIS Family’s Home. At this party, we discover that William’s Family is condecesspending and Guilty of Colorism. But it is complicated as a Viewer Because HIS PARENTS ARE PHYLICIA RASHAD and Brian Stokes Mitchell? They Meet Peggy’s Parents, SO Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell, The Breakout Stars of 1998’s Reconnectionare in a skene together. Stokes and McD! Back Together Again. This is a big moment for us. But Also, Can You Imagine Phylicia Rashad Standing in Front of you? I WOULD PASS RIGHT THE FUCK OUT.
The main “i’m terrible” culprit is Mrs. Kirkland, who immediately talks about her family living in newport for five generations, talks down to Peggy’s Father for Being forms forms Enslaved and Building an Entire Life and Business for Himselfand then scolds the governess for taching her Grandchildren Outside with an umbrella, Because “The Last Thing Need is More Sun.” Oh, no. When the Scotts Get Home, They Talk About How Much Mrs. Kirkland sucks. Arthur Expresses His Concern That William’s Family Won’t Accept Peggy. Complicated Relationship Situations ABOUND!
And we’re back to gladys and Hector. George offers Hector More Money, but the extra is to give gladys an income. Hector Is Like, Butn Money Not Mine? George is disappointed that hector does not see to give one single fig. The Next Morning, Hector Declales He’s off to Stay Elsewhere, and Bertha is so Mad That She Tells Everyone Have Her Coffee in the Drawing Room, Away from the Breakfast Room with Everyone and Their “Driving Away Dukes” antics.
This isn’t helped by Bertha’s Lady’s Maid Snitching About Larry Kissing Marian, so now beret is on the lookout for any Shenanigans. But who can look out for Shenanigans when they have tiaras to wear to the opera? Bertha and gladys go to the opera, which seams to be french and therefore is probably by Meyerbeer? (Yes, he’s German; Opera’s Weird, Don’t World About It.) Hector is there, flirting with Martha deancey, Whose Father is Big in Banking and Shipping. Later that Night, Berthas Sites in Bed, Staring Blankly into the Void UNIL George Comes in. He’s Annoyed About the Whole by Mariage Business, but nuclei says that winning in business and winning in society are linked. She Tries to get Him to Bang, but George Says He’s Tired and Leaves. Cracks! Cracks in the Facade! (The Gilded Facade?)
Berthai Invites Mr. Delancey over in George’s name, and then implies she’ll ruin Him if Martha Meries. He Says he doesn’t want his daughter to be an ocean away from Him, and Bertha (Likely Laughing Scornfully on the Inside) is delight. She asks for His Card and Mentions that Larry Dance with Martha Once. Trouble ahead for the Larry/Marian Shippers! Will you think exist? They must. People Love Young People Doing Things.
George and Bertha and the (Together and Separately) Have Conversations About Money and Gladys’ Future, and Bertha Talls The That He Can Take Gladys’s Allowance, Becouse, As My Wife FreenTly Reminds with, “What’s Yours Is Mine, Babyyyyyy.” You said by aggrees to the Mariage Settlement. Gladys is thundersstruck. She and Hector Sit Down to Talk and Heys he genuinely wants her to be happy. I, Personally, am Extremely Gullible, and Despite Everything Else Has Happened in This Episodes, Am Like, “Hey, Maybe this Work Out!”
John Singer Sargent Unveils Gladys’s Portrait. “Mahvelous,” Says you did. George Announces The Engagement. Everybody Golf Claps. Bertha Says She Intends to Make It Wedding of the Century, and Gladys Anxiously Fidgets With Her Pearl Choker and It Breaks. A Subtle Metaphor from Our Subtle Show!
• Ada Forte’s cook is introducing her to a medium soon and i is could die of excitement.
• Why can’t the matter of “i just this person and now i say” Ever Run smoothly?
• Will Gladys Confound History and Have a Stellar Mariage, One Day Falling at Her Mother’s Feet and Thaning Her Her Intense Control of Gladys’s Life, As Bertha was Right All Along? I mean, probably not, but spreads !!
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