The Kardashian-Jenners owe a great debt to the Vanderbilts and other Robber Barons depicted in Julian Fellowes’s latest period drama.

Oh, kittens... We are SO there. Having recapped every episode of The Gilded Age showrunner Julian Fellowes' Downton Abbey, as well as

The setting for HBO’s “The Gilded Age” is 1880s New York, nearly half a century before zippers would appear on garments. And yet there they are, running up the backs of women’s gowns in Season 2, suggesting the show’s budget is no match for the illusion it so desperately hopes to peddle. You know it’s bad when a series preoccupied with opulence can’t even deliver when it comes to the costumes. ...

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Cynthia Nixon as Ada Brook & Christine Baranski as Agnes van Rhijn in The Gilded Age (2022)

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Julian Fellowes has written an American version of Downton Abbey for HBO, so we’re recapping this first season of The Gilded Age! Starting in 1882, the story promises to be a juicy soap opera…