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It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading as her maid, Marian gets caught up in the dazzling lives of her rich neighbors as she struggles to decide between adhering to the rules or forging her own path.
FeaturingCarrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Louisa Jacobson, Denée Benton, Taissa Farmiga, Harry Richardson, Blake Ritson, Simon Jones, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon
Review snapshot**Aristocratic sobriety**
This sensational period drama is set in New York City during the 1880s, an era of profound economic and technological change, as well as massive social conflict. Against this backdrop, we meet Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson), a young woman with aristocratic but impoverished roots who moves in with her old-money New York aunts (the amazing Christine Baranski totally steals the show here). She immediately finds herself caught in a fierce social war between the traditional families (Old Mon…
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