TV review: Fellowes’s New York extravaganza shows all that’s Gilded is not gold
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes’s new period drama, set in 1880s New York, is an unsubtle and clunky affair
The Gilded Age (Sky Atlantic)
The Responder (BBC One)
Crimes and Confessions (RTÉ One)
Imagine Central Park, New York in 1882. As in Bach’s aria, sheep may safely graze until a clattering convoy of horse-drawn wagons bowls along a curving roadway. They’re bearing Grecian statues and other loot from Europe for an enormous white mansion being constructed on the corner of 51st Street by ruthless railroad tycoon George Russell (Morgan Spector) and his upwardly mobile ...