The Gilded Age Season 3 continues Julian Fellowes's opulent period drama about old money and new money colliding in 1880s New York. From the creator of Downton Abbey, the HBO series charts the social warfare between the tradition-bound Van Rhijn-Brook household and their brashly ambitious neighbors, the railroad-rich Russells, as America's industrial fortunes rewrite the rules of high society.
Fresh off Bertha Russell's triumph in the opera war, the new season follows the Russells as they reach for even greater heights — most consequentially through the marriage prospects of their daughter Gladys, a storyline that tests how far Bertha (Carrie Coon) will go to secure a title and a legacy. Christine Baranski's imperious Agnes van Rhijn, Cynthia Nixon's Ada and Louisa Jacobson's Marian navigate their own upheavals as the show widens its lens on the era's Black elite through the Scott family.
Premiering June 22, 2025, Season 3 arrived as the drama's most-watched yet, buoyed by its lavish costumes and the real Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island that stand in for the Russells' world. Fellowes's blend of drawing-room wit and genuine historical texture has made the series a comfort-watch phenomenon and a showcase for one of television's deepest ensembles.
Arguably the best medical drama in television history, House thrives on genius writing and equally brilliant acting. Set in a teaching hospital at Princeton University, the show builds its plots around complicated, complex, elusive, credulity-straining diseases and a team of diagnosticians willing to move heaven and earth to find their causes and treatments. Long-time House fans eventually demystify the show’s dramatic formula, which devotes the first third to diagnosis and discovery, the middle third to trial and which seem to lead to a cure, and then the climactic ending which undoes all the drama of the first two thirds, curing the disease by revealing The Truth. Hugh Laurie plays Dr. Gregory House to perfection, sustaining the tension and contradiction between House’s arrogance and his irresistible compulsion to save people from their illnesses and often from themselves. One Los Angeles television writer sums-up, “A vicodin-popping, wise-cracking, gimp-guy who walks with his cane on the wrong side while he demystifies illnesses so bizarre they almost defy imagining—what’s not to like?”
