Gilded Age Season Finale Thoughts

Carrie Coon in The Gilded Age.
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SPOILER ALERT (IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED EP. 8 DO NOT READ YET) Thoughts on the season finale: so Oscar and Mrs. Winterton would get married and have separate lovers upstate on the weekends? Do you think Winterton knows Oscar is gay? Maybe they can talk about musical shows together. Perhaps Oscar will fall in love with one of the boys at the Haymarket--maybe the one in drag in the background--and install him at the country house. (Also why didn't Oscar go to the ball with the family? I guess there wasn't enough room in the two carriages if they were including Aurora.)

I didn't believe the Russells' break-up. It seemed that was it stuck in there to provide a cliffhanger for next season. The whole motivation for George's anger at Bertha was she forced Gladys to marry the Duke. But They're happy now and she's expecting a baby, so what's the big deal? George and Bertha may get divorced if they are following the Alva Vanderbilt storyline and she'll marry again, then become a suffragist.

The thing with Mrs. Foster and the whole Historical Society was drawn out over two episodes to provide a conclusion for the conflict between Ada and Agnes. Mrs. Foster could have written her offer to Agnes in the first letter instead of being so cryptic.

Hopefully season 4 will have more episodes. The investigation into the shooting will probably provide material for a few episodes. maybe it will turn out NOT to be Clay and that will provide a whole new storyline. Maybe it's an anarchist who is George's illegitimate son.

I think Larry and Marian will eventually work it out. Peggy and Dr. Kirkland will get married but they will have conflicts over her continuing to work. Phylicia Rashad will be an interfering mother-in-law and try to tell Peggy how to do every little thing.

Someone suggested on the Gilded Age Fan Club Facebook group that George will become addicted to Laudanum because of the close-up of the bottle before he joined everyone at the ball. Just like Mary Tyrone. Interesting, as Bertha said on a previous episode.

I also wrote earlier on Facebook that John Adams would leave his money to Oscar but the family would dispute it. They would win and the money form the basis of the family fortune so Gomez and Morticia would live in the lap of luxury.