This article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 7 of The Gilded Age .

For a series once derided as “tedious,” “boring,” and a “meandering, small, plot-starved, confused, and self-important show featuring a bunch of characters whose names I never learned” (OK, yes, all these criticisms of the first season came from me ), I am positively living for this season of HBO’s The Gilded Age . It’s finally good! Things are happening! And it just aired one of its best and most moving episodes to date! For me, the most shocking moment in Sunday night’s episode wasn’t the gun that went off right before the credits rolled. It wasn’t the meddling of Elizabeth Kirkland (Phylicia Rashad) that’s now threatening to end the romance between her doctor son, William (Jordan Donica), and Peggy S

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