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Oh, lord, there’s gonna be another season of GILDED AGE soon. Which I will hate-watch. But brace yourself. I think Julian Fellowes is a terrific snob about all Americans. No one to whom he’s so slavishly devoted like the sainted Crawleys—by the last season I expected haloes to appear. And pretty clueless about the Manhattan milieu to boot.
@Holberg@mstdn.socialFellowes also made a disastrous decision to include so many historical figures with the notable exception of any Vanderbilt. Which wrecks the verisimilitude. I mean, my god, he even drags out the FISH family. HOW is the richest family in the country absent?
Of course, Bertha Russell is an avatar for Alva Vanderbilt. But it would’ve so much smarter to establish Bertha as a rival to Alva. Who can break into society first? Paralleled by a rivalry between their husbands in the railroad business.
By the way, I kind of blame Alva Vanderbilt—at least partially—for Trump’s aesthetic. Her dining room at Marble House in Newport.
@Holberg She was competing with the Hearst Family.
