{"id":77000,"date":"2025-08-12T11:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/77000\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:05:30","slug":"the-gilded-age-star-morgan-spector-talks-season-3-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/77000\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Gilded Age\u2019 Star Morgan Spector Talks Season 3 Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: This piece spoils the Season 3 finale of The Gilded Age<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThanks to Dr. William Kirkland (Jordan Donica), Morgan Spector<\/a>\u2019s railroad magnate George Russell survived an absolute shocker of a gunshot wound after a delivery man showed up at his work to attempt to kill him.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe penultimate episode cliffhanger brought marriage and relationships into perspective for not only Carrie Coon\u2019s Bertha Russell, but for Louisa Jacobson\u2019s Marian Brook, who rushed to aid the Russell family and be with Larry (Harry Richardson) after their falling out over Larry\u2019s going to a house of ill repute. With the Julian Fellowes-created series getting renewed for a fourth season<\/a> midway through its rollout, viewers will have to wait and see what is in store for George and Bertha\u2019s relationship, which has also been on the rocks in Season 3.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think the story of George\u2019s bounce back from the assassination attempt would be the story, at least for me, of Season 4,\u201d Spector told Deadline. \u201cI would love to see what happens, but yeah, I think there were moments when these guys decided that they were gonna maybe start treating their workers a little better, or maybe start investing more in philanthropy or something like that. I\u2019d be curious to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough George encourages Bertha to carry on hosting Mrs. Astor\u2019s (Donna Murphy) Newport Ball and even makes an appearance at the event looking healthy as ever, he makes to return home the very next day, much to Bertha\u2019s disappointment. He explains to her that he only did as she wished to help her in her social ambition and to protect his own business. He also hints that he has some reflecting to do upon his daughter\u2019s marriage to The Duke of Buckingham<\/a> and his complacency in the arrangement of it.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think what\u2019s happening for George is a crisis of conflict between his actual life, the choices he makes, and his moral code. I think that\u2019s what\u2019s really at issue,\u201d Spector said. \u201cI think he can\u2019t forgive himself for failing to protect Gladys from this marriage, and I think he has to figure out how to forgive himself and go back to being the man he was, or how to change and become somebody else. And I would love to find out whether we get to see him do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018The Gilded Age\u2019 Producers Address George\u2019s Shocking Decision In Season Finale: \u201cHe Feels Bertha Made Him Act Against His Instincts\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked if George\u2019s anger and pushing himself to limits with his railroad goals is due to Bertha putting pressure on him for the lifestyle she wants to live, Spector asserted that the couple\u2019s ambition is equal.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t think she needs to. I think that\u2019s an unspoken foundation of their connection \u2014 that they are going to push as far and as hard as they possibly can in their respective directions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpector\u2019s costar Coon remarked that it would \u201cnot be very sexy\u201d for Bertha if George lost his drive. Viewers can anticipate answers to questions surrounding the fate of Bertha and George\u2019s marriage as well as their separate roles in society come Season 4.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Fact & Fiction In HBO\u2019s \u2018The Gilded Age\u2019 From Real Historical Figures To Technological Advancements<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: This piece spoils the Season 3 finale of The Gilded Age. Thanks to Dr. William Kirkland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,1035,54525,8408,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-77000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hbo","10":"tag-morgan-spector","11":"tag-the-gilded-age","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}