"There Was No Duchess Then": The Gilded Age Season 3, Episode 6 Recap
UM, SOME STUFF HAPPENED.
First and foremost: Julian Fellowes loves vehicular manslaughter, as he proved this week when John Quincy Adams got RUN OVER AND (presumably) KILLED by a runaway horse and carriage, right in front of Oscar and the Union Club.1
Folks on Reddit were arguing about whether this was more similar to the death of Downton Abbey’s Cousin Matthew (huge surprise when things are going well for the character in question; also involves a method of transport) or Lady Sybil (two-thirds of the way through a season), but I was left bereft and sobbing by both of those character deaths and I must confess that I burst out laughing when this one happened, mostly because the specific effects were terrible. Someone on Reddit compared it to Brad Pitt dying in Meet Joe Black and they’re not wrong: