Drama! Action! Astounding dresses! It feels like The Gilded Age has finally arrived with this episode. So much happens, and we’re finally not talking about stocks and aldermen but about actually interesting things, like an unwanted naked lady’s maid in your bed.
I read some bad take before the show premiered that Julian Fellowes was adding a Black main character for the sake of “wokeness,” which is insulting to Denée Benton and also belied by this much-improved episode, in which Marian…