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The Gilded Age: You Don't Even Like Opera (2023)
Episode 1, Season 2
Becoming too glib
7 November 2023 - 4 out of 22 users found this review helpful.
I know that it's supposed to be soapy fun but the story line with the black characters is just hitting so wrong, knowing what was going on at that time just 20 years after the Civil War. Much of the wealth depicted was generated through slavery. Are we just glossing over that?
I'm also always comparing this to Downton Abbey, where here I feel like there are too many characters to keep track of. I sometimes want to research an actor and I don't even know where to start as I don't know their name in the show.
I still love the opulence and the art direction, but the story line just seems weak and too fractured. S2 E1 may be the last one I watch.
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