HBO’s finally set a release date and unveiled the first teaser trailer and photos from season two of The Gilded Age, created by Downton Abbey‘s Julian Fellowes. Season two will debut nearly two years after the launch of season one, with HBO setting an October 29, 2023 premiere date.
New episodes of the eight-episode second season will arrive on Sundays at 9pm ET/PT.
Returning season one stars include Carrie Coon, Christine Baranski, Morgan Spector, Cynthia Nixon, Louisa Jacobson, Denée Benton, Taissa Farmiga, Blake Ritson, and Simon Jones. Harry Richardson, Thomas Cocquerel, Jack Gilpin, Ben Ahlers, Michael Cerveris, Kelley Curran, Sullivan Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Debra Monk, Donna Murphy, and Kristine Nielsen also reprise their roles.
The huge, talented season two ensemble includes Kelli O’Hara, Patrick Page, Taylor Richardson, Douglas Sills, Erin Wilhelmi, Nathan Lane, Audra McDonald, John Douglas Thompson, and Ashlie Atkinson.
In addition, Laura Benanti, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Christopher Denham, David Furr, Ward Horton, Matilda Lawler, and Robert Sean Leonard star in season two.
Series creator Julian Fellowes and Sonja Warfield write and executive produce. Gareth Neame, David Crockett, Bob Greenblatt, and Salli Richardson-Whitfield also serve as executive producers along with director Michael Engler.
HBO offers this description of the upcoming second season:
“The American Gilded Age was a period of immense economic change, of great conflict between the old ways and brand new systems, and of huge fortunes made and lost. Season two of The Gilded Age begins on Easter morning 1883, with the news that Bertha Russell’s bid for a box at the Academy of Music has been rejected. Through the eight episodes of the season, we watch as Bertha challenges Mrs. Astor and the old system and works to not only gain a foothold in Society, but to potentially take a leading role in it.
George Russell takes on his own battle with a growing union at his steel plant in Pittsburgh. In the Brook House, Marian continues her journey to find her way in the world, secretly teaching at a girls school, while much to everyone’s surprise Ada begins a new courtship. Of course, Agnes approves of none of it. In Brooklyn, the Scott family begins to heal from a shocking discovery, and Peggy taps into her activist spirit through her work with T. Thomas Fortune at the NY Globe.”
