‘The Gilded Age’ Is Even More Fun Than ‘Downton Abbey’

The Daily Beast’s Obsessed

The new HBO series from the “Downton” creator features all the corsets, fancy houses, and bitchy people talking about being rich that we’ve missed. It’s “Downton on steroids.”

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Alison Cohen Rosa/HBO

In these last years, we as a society have suffered through a great trauma, a total starvation of the kind of community and culture which we need to thrive: fancy old-timey ladies with funny accents wearing corsets and being bitchy to each other about how rich they are.

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