I haven’t watched America’s Next Top Model since 2008, but the format stays with ya, ya know? And as I watched The Gilded Age Season 3 finale, I felt like we were having an ANTM-style competition of who is America’s Next Top Mother.

“Mother,” of course, is a term the youths use to describe a woman who is intangibly iconic: formidable, fabulous, fierce…you get the idea. The Gilded Age has, arguably, the strongest cast of all time, especially their ladies (so many Tony winners), and the mothers were mothering all season long. But which one will come out on top in this experiment?

Some honorable mentions

Christine Baranski as Agnes

Participation award. Christine Baranski is always going to be Mother to me, and not just because I recently rewatched The Birdcage. This week Agnes channeled

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