George, you didn't even say goodbye to your pregnant daughter whom you claim to love and you left the woman who held your head and body when you were having seizures and almost dying.
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George, you didn't even say goodbye to your pregnant daughter whom you claim to love and you left the woman who held your head and body when you were having seizures and almost dying.
i feel like the gilded age is failing some sort of opposite version of the bechdel test by having their two gay characters unable to have a single conversation that doesn't involve this girl one of the guys wants to marry while the guy's bf is like can we talk about something else. and i respect that
We all know as a woman back then, money comes and goes but a TITLE? That’s forever and Bertha knows that. I don’t blame her for doing what she did to ensure Gladys’ security. Marriage is a gamble and that’s the thesis of this season. This show is for and about women.
Listen Bertha could run Russell Consolidation Trust but George could never throw the end-of-season Newport ball with divorcees, a Duke, and Mrs Astor.
Also, how dare they belittle women’s work and her unpaid labor and emotional and mental labor. Bertha wasn’t allowed to have a career, so society (charities, causes, the arts, etc.) is her career and sphere of influence. If she was allowed to, Bertha would’ve been a CEO. Besides, George risked the entire family fortune without even consulting his wife.
Nobody can outdo Cersei Lannister but Bertha O’brien Russell is that girl. Rewatching the show with clearer lenses George has always been a two-timing bitch who loves to play the good cop dad and throw his wife under the bus. If the r/ship ends Bertha will be fine. I think Bertha is one of the most ambitious women written on TV and I stand ten toes behind her. I'm not blinded by the railroad daddy allure that I can’t recognise an emasculated and insecure man.
The painful thing is that the Russell children will never know about the Turner and George incident and how their father didn't tell their mother about it. Also with Bertha in England, she's never going to tell Gladys about the rough patch in her parents' marriage or how her father has been treating her or how after George gave her an ultimatum she chose Gladys. But everyone in her family thinks she's heartless and the worst mother on earth while their father is as pristine as a Raphael Fresco. Mind you George is a robber baron.