The Gilded Age season 4: EP on George, Bertha’s future
We are less than 24 hours removed from the season 3 finale of The Gilded Age on HBO, and there are many things to discuss.
So what is front and center here? That’s honestly not a hard thing to answer! After all, just consider the fact that George and Bertha may be splitting up, as he feels like this relationship has corrupted on some level his sense of what he wants from himself and his life. He is upset with Bertha but at the same time, he is upset with himself.
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So what does executive producer Julian Fellowes have to say about this? Well, in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, he made his thoughts on George rather clear:
… His wife has made him break his word. HE gave his word to Gladys that she could marry for love when the time came. And the time did come and she wasn’t allowed to marry for love. She was pushed into this marriage by her mother. And however he slices it, he went along with it. He walked down the aisle with her on his arm.
… He has to somehow address that. He has to face what was the weakness that made him give up his own standards. What was he afraid of? How did it happen? Bertha, who is more pragmatic, as far as she’s concerned, she’s given her daughter this extraordinary life, and now, she will be famous on both sides of the Atlantic. Gladys is happy, and she’s getting along with Hector, so what’s the problem? Whereas George realizes it’s not to do with Gladys. Of course, he’s happy if she’s happy, but that’s not the point. The point is that his morals were suspended at his wife’s behest when he went along with it. And so how does he resolve that? Does he forgive himself? Does he forgive her?
We do not think this is going to be a simple process for him, and how everything unravels could be a big part of the fun. This show is meant to be both crazy and emotional, and we have a hard time (at least for now) thinking that this is going to change.
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