Everything to Know About ‘The Gilded Age’ Season 2: Who Is Returning, Potential Spinoffs and More

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More fortune in store! HBO’s historical drama, The Gilded Age, will be returning for a second season.The series, which was renewed in February 2022, was created by Downtown Abbey showrunner Julian Fellowes and is set against the backdrop of 1880’s America amid the “Gilded Age” — a historical period of immense economic age for the country.

Season 1 of the series premiered in January 2022 and follows Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) as she relocates from rural Pennsylvania to glamorous New York City to live with her wealthy aunts (Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski) following the death of her father.“I [was] interested right away,” Jacobson told Vogue during a February 2022 interview about her audition. “The details I had about my character, Marian, at that stage were pretty limited.

She’s described as an innocent country girl who moves to Manhattan after her father dies and leaves her penniless. She’s quite wide-eyed about the high society in which she finds herself, but there’s a boldness and a fire to her that’s slowly coming out, too.”As Marian adjusts to living in the Big Apple, she finds herself pulled between the two worlds of modernity and her family’s old-money traditions — something her aunts are well versed in.“One of the things about The Gilded Age that excited me most was that I would get to use [the] training I haven’t used in so long because I’ve played contemporary characters,” Baranski told Town & Country in January 2022. “Just say the words ‘Julian Fellowes [is] doing a TV show for HBO’ [and] I mean, OK, sign me up.”In March, HBO officially announced that the second season was under production and will film in both New York and Rhode Island. “The rumors are true. #GildedAgeHBO has begun production on