(Warning: Spoilers ahead.)

A near-death experience isn’t the most shocking moment in The Gilded Age’s Season 3 finale. No, that will be George Russell (Morgan Spector) surviving a gunshot wound and then dropping a bigger bombshell on Bertha (Carrie Coon): He is unsure whether their marriage has a future.

I gasped.

Whether society’s elite will show up to a party is no longer the highest stake that The Gilded Age has to offer. Of course, Bertha is still concerned everyone will snub her lavish bash now that she has opened up the guest list to divorcées, but creator Julian Fellowes has also stuffed the second half of this season with many jaw-dropping twists and turns. Namely, a runaway carriage that killed John Adams (Claybourne Elder) a few weeks ago, and George getting shot in the safe

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