The Gilded Age
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Expectations started high in this episode for those among us who love 19th-century American womens history!
She then helped identify and properly bury more than 20,000 missing men after the war.
Essentially, Barton did way more than any of the people we will discuss today.
Marian and Ada decide to attend her talk together.
And (6) Irish Maid and Younger Butler go on a date.
If you were excited about Clara Barton, you shouldnt be!
Shes barely in it!
Justice for Clara Barton.
While Mrs. Astor talks with Barton after the lecture, she name-checks presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and James Garfield.
Mrs. Astor is going to feel pretty foolish when she finds all this out.
Hes flirty in a nerdy way, and Marian asks him to call on them while Ada giggles.
The point of this sceneshouldbe to highlight how LUMINESCENT Kelli OHara looks as Aurora Fane.
Ada finally tells Marian what the deal is with the scandalous Mrs. Chamberlain, and??
She had a child out of wedlock and then married the father??
THAT IS THE WHOLE SCANDAL.
Again, I thought Mrs. Chamberlain was possibly a stand-in forVictoria Woodhull, a.k.a.
She was also bankrolled by Cornelius Vanderbilt, so its not likeall the pieces werent there.
Maybe shell show up later.
I studied 19th-century literature in college and have no earthly idea what anyone is angry about here.
So I get that part.
But then George is angry because they have some plan of tanking the stock and then buying it again?
I have read two articles about stocks, and I still do not understand.
Something about short selling MAYBE.
Did you know she saved only $45,000 by doing the insider trading she was convicted of??
I mean, sure, thats a lot to me, but shes Martha Stewart!
In 2002,her net worthwas $650 million!
I did math for this recap, and that is 0.0069 percent of her net worth.
Rich people sure love money (Martha Stewart, kindly do not come after me).
She tells him he made it once, so he can make it again.
Which I LOVE as a Slightly Nefarious Couple dynamic, but they havezerochemistry.
I wish they did!
And by some of, I mean not Carrie Coon.
I wonder if Gladys will be set up for someWashington Squaresituation.
George doesnt like Oscar, and Bertha shuts Oscar down.
Is thisDays of Our Lives: The Gilded Age?
No, the plots in that would be more fun.
Why cantThe Gilded Agebe like THAT?
Tom and Marian meet privately in his office, which feels inappropriate, but what do I know?
He asks her to lunch at Delmonicos and specifies Madison Square, not Broadway.
Tom tells Marian hell be there like its a treat to spend time with this man.
I HOPE ITS NEVER.
When she finally gets to speak, its with the servants, so … dont love that.
The publisher of theChristian Advocatewants to talk with her about publishing her short stories.
A potential win for Peggy!
This is an understandable concern!
But, also, Peggy is amazing, and you should support her, Peggys Dad.
TheChristian Advocateis asking me to lie.
Well put, Peggy!
This is such an awful problem to have, and she decides not to publish her story with them.
And yes, I tried to look up theChristian Advocates circulation numbers after 1840 but could not find them.
MOVE ON, BURTON, I said.
You really want me to talk about the train … stock … financial deal, huh?
Trust that Julian Fellowes knows.
Patrick Morris panics to his wife, Anne, and Charles Fane panics to Aurora.
Morris tells Anne she has to go and grovel to Bertha and then Anne visits Bertha anddoes zero groveling.
She just laughs and then asks for mercy, and read the room, Anne!
Bertha kicks her out, as she should.
Which it is, so he does and then Ada and Agnes have a nice sister moment.
More Agnes and Peggy scenes in which they conquer the world through correspondence!
The aldermen visit George and ask him to stop bankrupting them all.
Morris literally kneels, saying theyve lost enough to make them poor.
He cries a lot.
Russell tells them they must face the music and dismisses them.
Morris goes home, and you know hes going to kill himself.
Morriss death by suicide closes out the episode.
Really unclear what this is going to do for the social order next week.
Or do we not care?
But maybe she will be?
