How to Watch ‘The Gilded Age’: Is the ‘Downton Abbey’ Creator’s New Drama Streaming?

Julian Fellowes swaps early 20th century England for late 19th century New York to tackle high society

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Originally coined by Mark Twain, “The Gilded Age” is a sarcastic nickname for the time period in between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the nineteenth century. Taught in most history classrooms as the age of industrialization, economic booms and the corruption of wealthy tycoons, it’s the subject of the long-awaited new drama series from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes.

Rather than just shining the spotlight on the elite upper class society who throw big parties and make sweeping gestures with their money, “The Gilded Age” layers that lifestyle with the realities of the middle class, working class and post-Civil War life for Black Americans.

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