by Thinus Ferreira
"For a New Yorker, anything is possible." HBO has released the official trailer for The Gilded Age, the new American period drama, created by Julian Fellowes.
HBO and Julian Fellowes hope to replicate the success of his British period drama Downton Abbey that is busy on production of a second film, and Shonda Rhimes' Bridgerton on Netflix that will have its second season in 2022.
The Gilded Age will debut on HBO in the United States on 24 January 2022 and will also be available on its HBO Max video streaming service that isn't available in South Africa yet.
M-Net (DStv 101) was asked on Monday night whether it has acquired The Gilded Age or is negotiating for the series rights but haven't responded yet.
The Gilded Age begins in 1882 when a young Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) moves from rural Pennsylvania to New York City after the death of her father, to live with her thoroughly old money aunts Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski) and Ada Brook (Cynthia Nixon).
"Accompanied by Peggy Scott (Denée Benton), an aspiring writer seeking a fresh start, Marian inadvertently becomes enmeshed in a social war between one of her aunts, a scion of the old-money set, and her stupendously rich neighbours, a ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife," HBO says in the official logline description for the series.
"Exposed to a world on the brink of the modern age, will Marian follow the established rules of society, or forge her own path?"
