The Gilded Age

With HBO's <em>The Gilded Age, </em>creator Julian Fellowes basically airlifts <em>Downton Abbey</em>'s soapy plots, ball gowns, sneering servants and quippy old ladies out of Yorkshire and plops them down in the Manhattan of 1882. The series stars Christine Baranski, and Cynthia Nixon, plus a sprawling cast of socialites, servants, and members of the working class. <em>The Gilded Age</em> is about to return for a second season, so today we're revisiting our conversation about the series.