The first season of “The Gilded Age” has drawn to a close, but not without leaving some loose threads to pick up in Season 2.
Starting in 1882, “The Gilded Age” focuses mainly on two young women coming of age in a generation different from that of their parents’ — Marian Brooke (Louisa Jacobson) and Peggy Scott (Denée Benton).Marian, who is white and recently lost her father, has to move in with her old money aunts in their New York apartment, which is right across the street from a new money family headed by railroad tycoon George Russell (Morgan Spector) and his ambitious socialite wife Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon).