Teaser Trailer for HBO's Series THE GILDED AGE From the Creator of DOWNTON ABBEY

The creator of Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes, has created new series for HBO Max titled The Gilded Age. The new drama is set in New York City in the 1880s, and it centers on the battle between old money and new money as the modern age approaches.

I’m a big fan of the stories that Fellowes tells, and I especially enjoy the characters that fills those stories. This time he’s putting the focus on the ultra rich New Yorkers, just after the American Civil War ends and before the turn of the twentieth century. It looks like a great show and here’s the synopsis:

The American Gilded Age was a period of immense economic change, of great conflict between the old ways and brand new systems, and of huge fortunes made and lost. Against the backdrop of this transformation, HBO's The Gilded Age begins in 1882 with young Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) moving 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 neighbors, a ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife, George (Morgan Spector) and Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon). Exposed to a world on the brink of the modern age, will Marian follow the established rules of society, or forge her own path?

The series was directed by Michael Engler (Sex and the City, 30 Rock) and Salli Richardson (Dear White People, The Wheel of Time). The Gilded Age debuts Monday January 24th on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.