"Our Love Is No Longer Practical": The Gilded Age Season Three, Episode Two Recap
DROP DEAD CHARLES FANE
First, and crucially: This episode had some of the most insane, unhinged hats I’ve ever seen. Almost every time a woman popped up on screen, her hat was RIDICULOUS. It was delightful, and only occasionally distracting. Just imagine almost every non-servant woman I mention wearing a florescent rooster tied to her head at all times. What a treat. As, in fact, was the rest of this very soapy, very action-packed episode. We are finally cooking with gas on this show!
In fact, let’s not waste any more time here nattering around this intro and get right into it:
The Fanes
Charles Fane is a TOTAL DICK this entire episode — totally cold and unmoved by Aurora sobbing that she doesn’t want a divorce, and that this will RUIN HER LIFE, which is not actually an exaggeration. Instead of putting some thought into how he could best go about dealing with this heartbroken woman, if only to get what he wants with a minimum of agita, he ignores her letters and then brings h…