It looks like the over-the-elbow gloves are coming off in the second season of HBO's The Gilded Age. New money Bertha Russell is asking New York high society to choose sides as she goes head-to-head against Mrs. Astor. All eight episodes of Season 2 are set to hit the streamer October 29. Watch the first teaser above.
Tony and Emmy nominee Carrie Coon stars as Bertha Russell, wife of the fictional railroad magnate George, played by Morgan Spector. The series is piled with Tony winners, nominees, and Broadway favorites, including Donna Murphy as Mrs. Astor, Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon as high society sisters Agnes and Ada, Nathan Lane as Southern gent Ward McAllister, Denée Benton as Brooklynite journalist Peggy Scott, and Audra McDonald and John Douglas Thompson as her well-to-do parents.
The cast for Season 2 also includes Louisa Jacobson, Ben Ahlers, Michael Cerveris, Kelley Curran, Taissa Farmiga, Jack Gilpin, Simon Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Claybourne Elder, Debra Monk, Kristine Nielsen, Kelli O’Hara, Patrick Page, Harry Richardson, Taylor Richardson, Blake Ritson, Douglas Sills, Erin Wilhelmi, Ashlie Atkinson, Laura Benanti, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Christopher Denham, David Furr, Ward Horton, Matilda Lawler, and Robert Sean Leonard.
The series is created and executive-produced by Julian Fellowes.
Take a peek at the Season 2 first look photos in the gallery below. Those costumes!
Taissa Farmiga, Carrie Coon, and Donna Murphy in The Gilded Age
Cynthia Nixon and Robert Sean Leonard in The Gilded Age
Celia Keenan-Bolger in The Gilded Age
Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector in The Gilded Age
Deneé Benton and Sullivan Jones in The Gilded Age
Patrick Page and Morgan Spector in The Gilded Age
Linda Emond in The Gilded Age
Deneé Benton and Kelley Curren in The Gilded Age
Louisa Jacobson, Nathan Lane, and Kelli O'Hara in The Gilded Age
David Furr and Louisa Jacobson in The Gilded Age
Deneé Benton and Debra Monk in The Gilded Age
Christine Baranski in The Gilded Age
Kelli O'Hara in The Gilded Age
Carrie Coon and Nathan Lane
Sullivan Jones, Amber Gray, and Deneé Benton
Morgan Spector and Michael Cerveris in The Gilded Age
Laura Benanti in The Gilded Age
Deneé Benton and John Douglas Thompson in The Gilded Age
Audra McDonald and Deneé Benton in The Gilded Age
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Michael Cerveris, Douglass Sills and Jack Gilpin in The Gilded Age
Morgan Spector and Patrick Page in The Gilded Age
