Category: Julian Fellowes

The Gilded Age review – what did we do to deserve such a terrible stinker?

by The Guardian | Nov 3, 2026 | Culture, Cynthia Nixon, Julian Fellowes, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian | 0 |

Julian Fellowes’ high-society period drama has, somehow, picked up Emmys and reached its fourth series. Poor Meryl Streep must feel so awkward watching her daughter Louisa Jacobson in such a uniformly awful showA doctor with a...

The Gilded Age review – so gloriously soapy the suds practically foam on the screen

by The Guardian | Jun 23, 2025 | Culture, Julian Fellowes, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian | 0 |

With its fun new series, Julian Fellowes’ preposterous ‘transatlantic’ Downton has morphed from joylessly pompous to truly joyful TV. Consider me a convert!The Gilded Age is a curious, unwieldy thing. It is rich in qualities...