In the 'Gilded Age' Finale, Moral Superiority Looks Good on George. Shame It Doesn’t Fit

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Fellow opera-lovers, robber barons, and society gossips, we’ve made it to the end of another season of our favorite period soap opera. The third season of The Gilded Age , far and away the best season of the series so far, came to a suitably messy conclusion with some plotlines resolved and others left dangling. The finale (“My Mind Is Made Up”) was a good representative of the third season as a whole in how it resolves some genuinely affecting and compelling storylines while falling prey to some enduring bad instincts. The Gilded Age became a much better show than it was before, and those growing pains produced some unevenness, particularly in how characters were

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