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(Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Gilded Age Season 2, Episode 3.)
Bertha Russell might be out to supplant the Academy of Music with a little opera house called the Met, but this week on HBO’s The Gilded Age, Carrie Coon’s indefatigable social climber faces an even bigger challenge—getting over the fact that her husband declined to mention that her maid once crawled into bed with him while naked.
From the moment Bertha’s ex-ladies’ maid Miss Turner (Kelley Curran) showed up at that party in Newport last week on the arm of a major potential opera donor, we all knew trouble was coming. The Russells fired Turner after her scheming got out of hand—including attempting to seduce Bertha’s husband, George (Morgan Spector) into making her his mistress. The Russells foolishly did not cut off Turner’s access to their home immediately upon firing her, so who knows what kinds of information she might’ve dug up in George’s office.