TV review: The striving and the snobbery is off the scale in The Gilded Age

You can see they’ve put plenty money into The Gilded Age. But judging by these dreary people on 5th Avenue, money isn’t everythinr

Christine Baranski as Agnes van Rhijn & Cynthia Nixon as Ada Brook

Will we ever get fed up watching super-rich types on the telly? Probably, if The Gilded Age (Sky Atlantic and Now TV) is anything to go by.

The new period drama by Julian Fellowes, the man responsible for Downton Abbey, is pitched at those of us who love a show about women in uncomfortable dresses. The only problem is that it’s set in 1880s New York and everyone is some shade of awful.