The Gilded Age
Close Encounter to Touch
TV Flash files “Close Encounter to Touch” as hour 14 of 25 in the TV Flash guide — The Gilded Age (2022–) on HBO, season 2, episode 5, aired 2023-11-26, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E05: listed hour 14 of 25 in the The Gilded Age guide, hour 5 of 8 in season 2. It aired 2023-11-26 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “His Grace the Duke” (S02E04). Next is “Warning Shots” (S02E06).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
While Ada questions whether to move forward without her sister's support, Agnes faces the prospect of living alone. In Newport, Bertha puts the finishing touches on the event of the season as Mrs. Winterton plots her revenge. After experiencing the best of the Tuskegee Institute, Peggy and Mr. Fortune witness the dangers of the South firsthand.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Close Encounter to Touch sit in the The Gilded Age guide?
S02E05 is listed hour 14 of 25 — hour 5 of 8 in season 2, season 2 episode 5.
When did The Gilded Age S02E05 air?
Close Encounter to Touch aired 2023-11-26 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need Downton Abbey first?
No. Fellowes in robber-baron New York, not a Downtown sequel. Old-money hats versus railroad new money is the entry.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Julian Fellowes does robber-baron New York: old-money hats versus railroad new money, with Carrie Coon as villain elegance in a ballgown. Appointment costume drama for the cable-stream hybrid age. Watch for society-as-combat, the Black elite plotlines that keep the show honest, and millinery that acts harder than half the drawing room.
The first cut is a hat that acts harder than half the drawing room. Julian Fellowes's The Gilded Age, 2022 onward on HBO, puts old New York society against railroad new money in the 1880s: Carrie Coon as Bertha Russell in villain elegance, Morgan Spector as George, Louisa Jacobson as Marian Brook, Christine Baranski's Agnes van Rhijn holding the old-money line. Robber-baron soap. Society as combat. Appointment costume drama for the cable-stream hybrid age. Millinery as performance. Black elite plotlines that keep…
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- Louisa Jacobson as Marian Brook
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