‘The Gilded Age’ Season 4 Officially Kicks Off Next Week on HBO

It’s been a long wait, but The Gilded Age is almost set to return to HBO. The soapy 19th-century drama is back for a fourth season of romance, heartbreak, and incredible costumes. The new season will premiere on Sunday, November 1, on HBO and HBO Max.

The series centers around the lives of the new money and old money of 1880s New York City, a time of great income inequality. In the new money column, we have George and Bertha Russell (Morgan Spector and Carrie Coon), a robber baron and his social-climbing wife, and their children, son Larry (Harry Richardson) and daughter Gladys (Taissa Farmiga). The old money is next door, in the form of dowager sisters Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski) and Ada Forte (Cynthia Nixon); they’ve taken in their orphaned niece, Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson), further straining their depleted finances. Representing the lives of New York’s Black community is Peggy Scott (Denée Benton), Agnes’ secretary and Marian’s best friend.

The wait is finally almost over, so once you’ve finished putting away your Halloween decorations and setting your clocks back, get ready for another season of The Gilded Age: Season 4 will premiere on HBO and HBO Max on November 1. New episodes of the eight-installment season will premiere weekly until the season finale on December 20. Also coming soon is Voices of the Gilded Age: The Christmas Album, which features contributions from The Gilded Age‘s cast members, many of whom are noted Broadway veterans.

Four worlds and four completely different ideas of what a good life
looks like. This is where you belong, what it would ask of you, and what you would get back in
return.

You belong somewhere old enough that the mountains have names and
somebody can still tell you who gave them. Middle-earth is for people who think the right
thing is worth doing even when it will not be finished in their lifetime.

• This is the only world on the list where doing good is understood as a very long defeat,
  fought anyway, by people who will never see how it ends.
• You are drawn to grandeur, to white cities and deep forges and the sense that almost
  everything you touch is older than your entire family line.
• The Rings of Power is set in the last good age before it all goes wrong, which gives
  every quiet scene in it a slightly unbearable weight.
• You would take the hard road, and you would take it on foot.

You want the sea, a crew, and absolutely nobody telling you where
you are allowed to go. The Grand Line is the world for people whose main ambition in life is
finding out what is over there.

• One Piece has run for decades on one very simple engine, which is a group of people who
  each want something impossible and have decided to go and get it together.
• You collect people. Your ideal crew is a set of misfits who were each written off
  somewhere else before you turned up and offered them a better idea.
• The world is enormous and deliberately ridiculous, and the emotional gut punches land
  harder because of that rather than in spite of it.
• You would set sail knowing the map runs out, which is more or less the entire point of
  it.

You would rather be feared and useful than liked and useless. The
Continent is a world where the monsters are the straightforward part of the job and the
people are where it all gets complicated.

• Witchers get paid to do what nobody else will and resented for existing at all, which is
  a trade most people would refuse and you would probably accept.
• You have no real illusions about which side is the good one, largely because on the
  Continent that question tends to have a disappointing answer.
• The best of these stories are not about the fighting. They are about somebody with a
  rigid code being repeatedly cornered into caring about people.
• You would take the coin, finish the job properly, and be out of town before the story
  got told wrong.

You want the myths to be real and loose in the actual world, and
you want to find out at about thirteen that you were never anywhere near as ordinary as
everybody kept telling you.

• Percy Jackson takes the oldest stories we have and drops them into car parks and diners,
  which makes the gods considerably funnier and a great deal worse.
• You would be the kid every school gave up on, who turns out to have been built for
  something nobody thought to test for.
• The series is genuinely about friendship rather than destiny, and it says so out loud
  every time a prophecy tries to get in the way.
• Camp Half-Blood is the real fantasy here: a place where the thing that made you
  difficult everywhere else is the thing that makes you belong.

What Happened in Season 3 of ‘The Gilded Age’?

Tensions had been rising in the Russells’ marriage for some time, but they finally came to a head over disagreements about Bertha’s betrothal of their daughter to the Duke of Buckingham (Ben Lamb). In the season finale, the Russells finally split up. But don’t despair, as their son, Larry, rekindled his romance with Marian. There’s love in the air for Peggy, as well, who’s now the fiancée of the charming Dr. William Kirklan (Jordan Donica). But there’s no love lost between Ada and Agnes; their typically prickly relationship has become even rockier now that Ada controls the purse strings, thanks to the estate of her late husband.

Season 4 of The Gilded Age will premiere on HBO and HBO Max on November 1. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.

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