That’s the frustrating part of enjoying shows like this. The part of me raised in this day and age wants to argue with you re: “she could do worse” because no one should settle for that.

She can, but then there will be blood. Ravenous social media vultures will have a field day on why she sit on separate suite from the rest of Chiefs families, especially The Mahomes. This is the case of curse her if she doesn’t. Curse her if she does.

I think what happens to Marian will depend on what they want to do with the Russell children. Either Larry will end up with Marian and give his family the old money recognition that Bertha wants, or Gladys ends up with the Duke, which would probably be the more appealing outcome for Bertha. But all things considered…

She would almost definitely have her own money. Either funds that were set aside for her in her late husband’s will, inheritance from her own parents (the real Mrs. Astor was less reliant on her husband for this exact reason), or potentially something in her original dowry. But it’s unlikely that an old money family…

I really hope she finds a way out of the engagement.

I liked Dashell up until he told Marion she wasn’t a ‘’real’’ teacher. Ouch. She’s going to get stuck in a loveless marriage, isn’t she?

Personally, I think she should lead a charge to have the Chiefs waive Travis so he can reunite with his brother, who just happens to be on a team that currently needs a tight end. The fact that I’m an Eagles fan has nothing to do with my feelings here.

So if Oscar loses money, is that all the van Rijn money? Will Agnes be...poor? If Ada inherits anything from Luke, will she move back into the mansion and fund the family?

Agree to disagree. Morgan Spector is the bearded hottie here. Lusting after his wife around every corner and wondering whether Henderson’s kids have a school to go to, while also making sure his wife gets her center box, on the sly and kidnapping the MET opera director to do it? versus an as-yet uninteresting…

Okay but hear me out.  Maybe she, like me, had literally never heard of Jackson Mahomes before and had no knowledge of his legal issues?

Or send word to keep the Mahomes’ away from her which would open her up to being called a diva and cause a rift between the team’s biggest stars making her the Yoko Ono of NFL. It’s a real lose-lose for her. 

Yeah, like the problem is not hers, it’s that the management allows him up there. So her options are either a) sit in the crowd with the public, which is a non-option since she would be swarmed by Swifties immediately, or b) stop going to the games altogether, which she could do, but clearly she likes going to them…

“comes off as a dolt”, sure. Kinda just conflating the “dumb football jock” trope onto him, huh? If anything, he’s pretty self-effacing, funny and down to earth, qualities that any woman can get on board with. I’m not a fan of how he destroys my team by always being open, but I am a fan of him doing Covid shot…

I was just coming here to say this. It’s so very typical of him, when what would have happened in real life is that a person like George Russell would have absolutely given the order to fire. I enjoy watching The Gilded Age as an escape, but the better, more nuanced version of this show would take a much harder look…

Rather than “bleeding on” about her happiness, I’d go with “bleating”--makes more sense for Agnes to compare Ada’s writing about how happy she is to the noises goats and sheep make.

I was confident George would fold against the union; there’s no way Fellowes of all people is going to treat George like he’s more or less a good guy for a season and a half and then have him brutally shoot a bunch of his own employees. Which is all part of Fellowes’s “oh, the rich assholes in charge might be…

One of the all-time great “oh it’s that guy!” actors.

Yikes! One of my favorite actors, ever since he popped up as ninja space lawyer on BSG, and I’m glad to hear he’s doing better. His dad (actor W. Morgan Sheppard) lived to be 86, so here’s hoping Mark gets at least that long.

Just imagine that voice inflecting the living hell out of a “Meanwhile” segment.

I admire him for trying to host that week recently when he had covid, but it was for the best that he bowed out after one episode. He was clearly very ill when he recorded that one episode. You could just see that he was dragging.