The Gilded Age

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Anonymous wrote:Cynthia Nixon in the pumpkin is lost scene is some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen. Terrible.

She's terribly miscast in the role.

I am a pet owner, but she was so f8cking annoying I hoped the dog would never be found.

My favorite scene in the series was when their butler(?) went over to the New Money house. He basically did the southern matron's, "Bless your heart, you set that table in such an interesting fashion." Hope those two have more interactions, the New Money butler seemed open to learning the Old Way of doing things.

The servants are much better cast & written than the employers.

The cook (gambler) is not a good actress.

I was the last poster you quoted and do agree. The characters with plot "hooks" are either bad actors, poorly directed, or it is bad writing - maybe all three. Hell, even the dog's scene of being scared of the horse looked cheesey.

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Carrie Coon is 41? I thought she was 48 in this role.

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Anonymous wrote:The governess in the bedroom was some of the cringiest, awful tv I've seen in a while!

Talk about gratuitous nude scene. Even Mr Russell wanted her covered up when he threw the blanket over her

Agreed! And why he hasn't had her fired, really instead of lame excuse he gave, means plot wise they are going to do something underhanded with her. A man who is supposedly so smart would not make such a rookie mistake if the writers weren't setting something up.

Yes, it was absurd that he didn't fire her! How is showing up naked in your boss's bed not a fireable offence?!

Because he now has something for leverage over her. He’s going to force her to put Oscar or another suitor of Gladys into a compromising position to weed out unscrupulous motives.

I'm the earlier PP. That could be interesting and I'd love to see that direction. I worried that this would be a revisit of the Downton Abbey wife's lady's maid who basically forced her to miscarry and lose their only hope of keeping the home/fortune/title in the family. I hated the Evil Lady's Maid storyline.

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I don’t care about the downstairs people’s plot lines. That’s all Julian fellows gets his rocks off on so…

Dialogue is too fast and doesn’t seem natural sometimes especially when the servants are all talking over each other— just seems so bad.

I’m kind of hate watching it at this point, except for the dresses, and I agree the red dress and the bird dress were beautiful.

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I'm enjoying it, despite the flaws. I LOVE Carrie Coon's voice.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm enjoying it, despite the flaws. I LOVE Carrie Coon's voice.

It started picking up the pace in Ep 3. And, interestingly, I think Carrie Coons is the only one who sounds good because she isn't nearly as stilted at the rest.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t care about the downstairs people’s plot lines. That’s all Julian fellows gets his rocks off on so…

Dialogue is too fast and doesn’t seem natural sometimes especially when the servants are all talking over each other— just seems so bad.

I’m kind of hate watching it at this point, except for the dresses, and I agree the red dress and the bird dress were beautiful.

A PP mentioned the Van Rijn butler mentioning to the Russell butler the differences in how they do things. I loved that little bit, would love to see more.

That said, I have such a hard time with the Russell butler because all I can think each time is about his role in Billons. Such a snob there, though he was actually a "servant" to the rich in Billions too.

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Anonymous wrote:Cynthia Nixon in the pumpkin is lost scene is some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen. Terrible.

She's terribly miscast in the role.

I agree completely but I’m surprised people think Meryl Streep’s daughter is a bad actor. I’m loving her and her character.

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Nathan Lane's TERRIBLE southern accent is just beyond. I think that’s the end of the road for me.

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I love this show - really excited to watch each ep.

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Anonymous wrote:Cynthia Nixon in the pumpkin is lost scene is some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen. Terrible.

She's terribly miscast in the role.

I agree completely but I’m surprised people think Meryl Streep’s daughter is a bad actor. I’m loving her and her character.

It's high School drama level bad.

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I love Nathan Lane

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Anonymous wrote:Nathan Lane's TERRIBLE southern accent is just beyond. I think that’s the end of the road for me.

I love Nathan Lane, but he turned the episode into a comedy. Or a pantomime, even!

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Anonymous wrote:I love this show - really excited to watch each ep.

Tell us more about that.

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Anonymous wrote:Nathan Lane's TERRIBLE southern accent is just beyond. I think that’s the end of the road for me.

I love Nathan Lane, but he turned the episode into a comedy. Or a pantomime, even!

I was surprised he was so supportive of Mrs Russell. I thought it would be more of a struggle.