HBO's epic historical drama The Gilded Age has been getting great reviews, and it's clearly been doing great numbers too. While the season finale only aired last week, HBO has already confirmed that it will be making a third season of the show. That's great news for fans of what The Guardian's Chitra Ramaswamy says she loves "against my better judgement".
For Ramaswamy, and for many of her fellow critics, The Gilded Age is a show that should be much better but that somehow remains gripping. Scenery is chewed, dialog is often awful, history is messed with and the whole thing represents the "Downtown Abbey-fication of the past". And yet, and yet.
