HBO show ‘The Gilded Age’ received a lot of praise and appreciation when it premiered on HBO in January 2022. The period drama is set in the backdrop of 1880s America, monikered the ‘Gilded Age’, owing to the economic boom in the America of those times, and the rise of the so-called nouveau rich. The Gilded Age Season 1 also scored well on Rotten Tomatoes, earning a commendable rating of 86% on the reviews aggregating portal.
For the unversed, The Gilded Age Season 1 is available to stream in India on Jio Cinema, the home for HBO shows content in India.
Those who’ve watched The Gilded Age Season 1 have been waiting eagerly for Season 2 to begin streaming on HBO, and Jio Cinema in India. Well, we’ve got news for you. The Gilded Age Season 2 Episode 1 has just begun streaming on Jio Cinema in India, almost simultaneously with its US premiere on HBO. The rest of the episodes will stream in the one-episode per week format.
Period drama ‘The Gilded Age’ centres on a young rural girl, Marian Brook, who moves to New York after her father’s death. She moves in with her old-money aunts, and quickly gets entangled in the social war between them and their new-money neighbors, whose patriarch is railroad tycoon, George Russell. The series effectively showcases the tussle between old money and new money, the conservative ways of the former, pitted against the modernistic views of the latter.
The Gilded Age comes from Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey. The series stars Louisa Jacobson, Denée Benton, Christine Baranski, Nathan Lane, Carrie Coon, Cynthia Nixon, Morgan Spector and Donna Murphy in pivotal roles.