The Gilded Age Season 4 premiere on HBO featured ruthless Pinkerton detectives, the birth of a baby, and a lavish society wedding. However, the storyline that might have stunned audiences the most actually took place in a small hotel room downtown under the cover of night.
**Spoilers for The Gilded Age Season 4 Episode 1 “Ring the Bells,” now streaming on HBO Max**
Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) not only found herself in a downtown dance hall having a good time in The Gilded Age Season 4 Episode 1 “Ring the Bells” — “Oh, downtown! Wow, that crazy club,” Gilded Age star Louisa Jacobson deadpanned to DECIDER — but she also gave into her long simmering passion for former flame Larry Russell (Harry Richardson).
That’s right: Larry and Marian didn’t renew their engagement, but they did have sex! (Which immediately sent Marian absolutely spiraling in shame.) So how did a character who was so uptight about Larry skipping Delmonico’s to go to a nightclub that she cancelled their wedding wind up in such a position? Blame Oscar (Blake Ritson) and Enid (Kelley Curran)?
When The Gilded Age Season 4 Episode 1 starts, most of New York society has braved a torrential downpour to attend the weddin...