The Gilded Age
Who Is in Charge Here?
TV Flash files “Who Is in Charge Here?” as a desk essential hour — The Gilded Age (2022–) on HBO, season 3, episode 1, aired 2025-06-22, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E01: listed hour 18 of 25 in the The Gilded Age guide, first listed hour of season 3. It aired 2025-06-22 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “In Terms of Winning and Losing” (S02E08). Next is “What the Papers Say” (S03E02).
Essential hour: “Who Is in Charge Here?”. Who Is in Charge Here? as season-three question: society still the battlefield, Fellowes still the engine, Coon still the reason the gowns have teeth.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In Arizona, George faces opposition while unfurling his ambitious plan to build a train route connecting New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Back in New York, Bertha prepares for the Duke's imminent arrival, Peggy falls ill after an unseasonable snowstorm, and Ada hosts a gathering to support the temperance movement – to Agnes' chagrin.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Who Is in Charge Here? sit in the The Gilded Age guide?
S03E01 is listed hour 18 of 25 — first listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 1.
When did The Gilded Age S03E01 air?
Who Is in Charge Here? aired 2025-06-22 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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- Morgan Spector as George Russell
Morgan Spector’s George Russell brought railroad new money into The Gilded Age’s old-money hats — Julian Fellowes’ 2020s robber-baron New York, Carrie Coon as villain elegance in a ballgown, society-as-combat, Black elite plotlines that…
- Louisa Jacobson as Marian Brook
Louisa Jacobson arrived with a suitcase as Marian Brook on The Gilded Age — Julian Fellowes’s robber-baron New York, old-money hats versus railroad new money, society as combat in a ballgown. Appointment costume drama for the cable-stream…
- Christine Baranski as Agnes van Rhijn
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