Spoiler alert: The following contains details from the Season 3 finale of "The Gilded Age."
All's well that ends well for the fair residents of Manhattan's 61st Street. Well, for everyone except Bertha Russell.
Carrie Coon's conniving, scheming, take-no-prisoners socialite in HBO's "The Gilded Age" (all episodes now streaming on HBO Max) got everything she ever wanted by the end of the period drama's third season − everything except the devotion of her husband, George (Morgan Spector).
In the final moments of the eventful Aug. 10 finale episode, George informs Bertha that, despite her nursing him back to health after a gunshot wound and helping his business save face with an extravagant ball, he has still not forgiven her for offenses past and may not even love her anymore. What was her crime? Well, marrying their daughter off for status, but mostly for being as ruthless as he is, but doing so as a woman.
For Bertha, who has just learned their daughter (Taissa Farmiga) is actually very happily married now and expecting her first child, life has never been so good and so devastating, as she watches her husband's carriage speed away from her perfectly appointed Newport, Connecticut, manor. But she's one of the only unhappy characters in the finale in the late-1800s-set series, which was recently renewed for a fourth season.
