SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the Season 3 premiere of “The Gilded Age,” now streaming on HBO Max.
“Don’t you know a bad marriage is a prison?” Bertha Russell asks her daughter Gladys towards the end of the first episode of the third season of “The Gilded Age.”
Well, for the first two seasons of the HBO period drama, the Russells’ marriage has been an ideal union of two striving, wildly ambitious people, drawn together by their shared desire to reign over New York City. George Russell took care of making the dough, using his business smarts to run circles around the old money elite, while Bertha
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