Bertha’s big dinner in Newport | The Gilded Age Season 2

Mrs. Winterton has been conspiring with several Russell staffers to ruin Bertha’s big dinner, including hired chef Mr. Schneider and footman Peter Burns. Mrs. Russell is distracted trying to wingman the duke with her daughter Gladys, but Watson comes to the rescue. The eagle-eyed valet catches Schneider going all Phantom Thread on a sauce pot and assertively cancels the first course before it reaches the table, and he tips off Church about Peter’s treason, banishing the young servant from the dining room before a plate could deviously end up in the royal’s lap. Watson, you’re a G. All in all, the duke’s dinner is a triumph, much to Mrs. Winterton’s vexation. (“I wouldn’t admit it if they tore my fingernails off to make me.”)

[@ATWTMVTVFTVSGAVRALPS]

This is peak drama right here. No need for the characters to have standoffs, violence, and outright fighting!

[@marisolfernandez9356]

Where are the Levinsons? They have a house in Newport they should be in this big dinner. I want my Levinsons cameos! 😭

[@LSTEdD1]

Love that Mrs. Fish

[@huolalupin6008]

Yes, me too. She has a certain je ne sais quoi.

[@dianadoraen7864]

"Ooh, such a devilish plan! We'll pour hot SOUP on him! How embarrassing, hohohohoho" Lol

[@dannystaley4798]

I will always love how dramatic the music is during this scene haha

[@VerofromUruguay]

She's a blast 😂

[@mb-ob2ye]

So, was the footman going to pour it on the duke?

[@TheySt0leMyUserName]

I think it was Mrs russel

[@greentombdive]

From their exchange in the kitchen, Surreptitiously, he was going to add something noticeably hot. BUT HOW? First, he needs both hands to take away the soup PAN. Secondly, he’s then - ‘single-handedly’ & gloved - carrying the soup DISH to the table. Lastly, intervened, the same dish is still served to the Duke … it doesn’t hang together. Meanwhile, writing-wise, the long winded and loud! footman processional was clumsy. In the circumstances (& the hot soup plan) each course’s food etc should have been transferred and changed to and from tables along the walls.

[@IrishAnnie]

That’s how my servants do it!! 😂

[@KINGCABA-if4nk]

What’s the music intro for 00:00 when all of them are walking to their chairs.

[@TheRobinRedbreast]

What episode was this? I know it was season 2 but what episode? Found it! Season 2 episode 5 the last 20 minutes.

[@anon2143]

This seems so pretentious; and the tiara and crowns are inappropriate as if they are royalty.

[@KINGCABA-if4nk]

That’s Royally American - the pound shop is worthy than dollar store for those tiara.

[@solemniti3410]

Believe it or not, there was once a time when American high society wore diamond tiaras and bought Easter eggs from Faberge. Also, many wealthy Americans married into the European aristocracy by buying their way in.

[@seliamila1005]

i mean american always wanting to emulate europeans aristocracy