HBO’s The Gilded Age | Morgan Spector, Carrie Coon, Taissa Farmiga, and Blake Ritson Talk New Series

From the creator of Downton Abbey comes the next hottest society drama packed with stars from stage and screen, including Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Taissa Farmiga and Blake Ritson. Against the backdrop of this transformation, HBO’s The Gilded Age begins in 1882 with young Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) moving from rural Pennsylvania to New York City after the death of her father to live with her thoroughly old money aunts Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski) and Ada Brook (Cynthia Nixon). Accompanied by Peggy Scott (Denée Benton), an aspiring writer seeking a fresh start, Marian inadvertently becomes enmeshed in a social war between one of her aunts, a scion of the old money set, and her stupendously rich neighbors, a ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife, George (Morgan Spector) and Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon). Exposed to a world on the brink of the modern age, will Marian follow the established rules of society, or forge her own path? In an exclusive with , Car