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June 21 – June 27, 2025

New money talks: The Russells make moves in new season of ‘The Gilded Age’ BY SARAH PASSINGHAM In the culture of excess that defined 1880s New York high society, marriages among the wealthy were business decisions of as much importance as those made in any industrialist’s office. “The Gilded Age” returns for its third season, premiering Sunday, June 22, on HBO and streaming on HBO Max. In the upcoming season, love is in the air, or at least the Russells’ matchmaking schemes are floating around 61st Street, and families are finding fault with suitors all over the city. “Happiness is a byproduct of a well-ordered life,” Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon, “The White Lotus”) opines over the official trailer for the new season. “Marriage is a real opportunity. You can influence politics, shape events. You can have powerful, interesting lives,” the new money queen of the Upper East Side says from experience. Last season, after her relationship with publisher T. Thomas Fortune (Sullivan Jones, “Elsbeth”) became devastatingly complicated and her controversial article helped halt the educational board’s quiet closure of Black schools, Peggy Scott (Denée Benton, “UnREAL”) made the emotional decision to part ways with The Globe. With those challenges behind her, Peggy is about to jump

into a new dilemma. This season, Dr. William Kirkland (Jordan Donica, “Charmed”), a handsome Newport doctor, comes into Peggy’s life and sweeps her off her feet. It’s not as simple as just falling in love, however, as the doctor comes with his own set of disapproving family members ready to take aim at Peggy’s ambition. Following a devastating loss in the battle of the operas and a long-running feud with the new money across the street, Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski, “Nine Perfect Strangers”) faces conflict even closer to home this season — from inside the house, to be exact. Threatened with financial ruin from a woeful decision her son, Oscar (Blake Ritson, “The Crown”), made, Agnes prepared for the worst last season until a hidden letter changed everything. There is a new lady of the van Rhjin house. Ada Forte (Cynthia Nixon, “And Just Like That...”), Agnes’ sister, discovered that her recently deceased husband had left her complete control of his untouched inherited fortune, allowing the widowed sisters to keep their home with their niece Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson, “Materialists,” 2025). Though everyone technically answers to Ada now, that doesn’t mean that Agnes has to accept it.

Also returning to the cast are Audra McDonald (“The Good Fight”) as Dorothy Scott; John Douglas Thompson (“Mare of Easttown”) as Arthur Scott; Nathan Lane (“Mid-Century Modern”) as Ward McAllister; Jack Gilpin (Billions”) as Church; Simon Jones (“Downton Abbey,” 2019) as Bannister; Debra Monk (“New Amsterdam”) as Armstrong; Taylor Richardson (“The Time Traveler’s Wife”) as Bridget; Harry Richardson (“Poldark”) and Taissa Farmiga (“American Horror Story”) as Larry and Gladys Russel; Ben Ahlers (“The Last of Us”) as Jack Treacher; and Morgan Spector (“The Plot Against America”) as railway tycoon George Russell. Joining the cast this season are Victoria Clark (“Almost Family”) as Joan Carlton; Jessica Frances Dukes (“Earth Abides”) as Athena Trumbo; LisaGay Hamilton (“Will Trent”) as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Andrea Martin (“Evil”) as Madame Dashkova; Brian Stokes Mitchell (“Up Here”) as Frederick Kirkland; Hattie Morahan (“Outnumbered”) as Lady Sarah Vere; Paul Alexander Nolan (“Hudson & Rex”) as Alfred Merrick; Leslie Uggams (“Fallout”) as Mrs. Ernestine Brown; Merritt Wever (“Nurse Jackie”) as Monica O’Brien; Bill Camp (“Zero Day”) as JP Morgan; and Phylicia Rashad (“Empire”) as Mrs. Elizabeth Kirkland.

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