This week:

The Gilded Summer

What will become of the Clock Twink?

Will divorced women be allowed at the ball?

Is anyone willing to be sober for a good cause?

And, of course, is Railroad Daddy dead?

Thus are the lingering questions heading into Sunday night’s season finale of The Gilded Age, the HBO drama that has, to the surprise of many, become the hottest show of the summer. Its viewership keeps growing, and, buzz-wise, it’s all everyone I know is talking about.

I put some skepticism on the surprise nature of that coronation. The Gilded Age, the period soap opera now in its third season, is from the creator of Downton Abbey. There was a time where everyone and their mother was obsessed with Downton Abbey (and usually watched it with their mothers). Why would we be shocked that th

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