'The Gilded Age' Season 2 Will Take Us Back to Old New York This Fall

Julian Fellowes' ambitious American-set period drama The Gilded Age is finally set to return this Fall, dropping us back into the highly entertaining (and seemingly neverending) battle between the old money snobs and nouveau richer strivers of late-nineteenth-century New York. And while Fellowes' American answer to Downton Abbey may occasionally feel closer to the backstabbing schemers of Gossip Girl than the stiff-upper-lip stoicism of the Grantham family, that doesn't mean it's still not wildly fun to watch.

From the unapologetic social climbing engaged in by industrialist billionaires George (Morgan Spector) and Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon), the dry disapproval of anything that might be called modern by widower Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski), or the do-gooder impulses of young newcomer Marion Brook (Louisa Jacobson), there's plenty to enjoy here. (And, of course, all the lavish costumes and elaborate hats look as though they will remain 100% on point.) Fans can expect to see Bertha continue to butt heads with society HBIC Mrs. Astor (Donna Murphy) in Season 2, as she schemes and plots to not only make New York's old guard accept her and her family but carve out a place for herself among its leadership.

I wouldn't bet against her, is what I'm saying.