The Gilded Age: What Happened in Season 1? Finale Recap
Everything That Happened in "The Gilded Age" Season 1
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If we're comparing "The Gilded Age" to "Downton Abbey," then Aunt Agnes is the Dowager Countess, full of lemony one-liners and stuffy, but accurate, observations. She spends much of the season trying (and usually failing) to impress upon Marian the importance of the social hierarchy, while making an endless array of cutting remarks about the new-money Russell family across the street. It's also heavily implied that Agnes's marriage to the late Mr. van Rijn was not a happy one and was only entered into so she could ensure her and her sister's futures.
As the season comes to a close, Agnes finds herself stuck attending the Russell ball, along with Ada and Marian, and she doesn't spontaneously combust, so chalk this one up in the win column?