Mrs. Astor and the Academy fiasco | The Gilded Age Season 2

Mrs. Astor’s loyal friend, Aunt Agnes, is at the Academy, along with Ward McAllister and Mamie Fish, but the rest of the crowd there is thin. (Mamie ultimately abandons them for the Met, as her only loyalty lies in whatever the majority is doing.) But where is that damn Duke? It’s like both of these theaters are showing Red, White and Blaine, and he is Mort Guffman.

[@billiebuffalo]

"Should I help find her carriage?" "SIT. DOWN." 😂😂

[@SonOfGod3000]

I sat up straight and behaved when she said that through her teeth! 😆

[@Marief17]

Miss Fish said what everyone was thinking 😂

[@m.layfette6249]

She always does, and I LOVE her for it! 💗💗💗

[@Kotyk_Murkotyk]

Team Mamie Fish anyone?

[@mimisunshinelove]

I hope Bertha didn't outrightly pawned off Gladys to the duke. George's expression after asking Bertha what she did to secure his attendance says alot. There will be trouble in paradise.

[@franklesser5655]

I feel sure she didn't. I can't imagine a mother marrying off her daughter for some sort of European title.

[@korbengunsludovicy]

I'm affraid that's exactly what might happen, as this part seems to be based on the life of Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough

[@urielcarrupt239]

Go after Consuelo Vanderbilt story! You will know how this unfolds

[@tracyscott2887]

That’s EXACTLY what she did.. she whored her own daughter out to get what she wanted.. Mother of the Year… Turner was right about her

[@tracyscott2887]

And Julian based Gladys story off Consuelo Vanderbilt.. so YUP she sold out her daughter

[@romancespringtime]

GO AURORA!! JUST BE YOURSELF WITH YOUR KEN DOLL!!!!

[@xtxpxhx]

😂😂😂

[@audrey3640]

KEN DOLL 😂😂😂

[@en1909s9iah]

you planted this thought in my mind and I can't unsee it now

[@CALLMESIR-p8h]

I'd even say he's younger than she is.

[@Chicago2329]

«A broken back” ahaha

[@louisefarrar6037]

Season 3 is going to be painful as Bertha goes full Alva on poor Gladys as Consuelo 😢

[@voxymandias441]

George is going to be PISSED.

[@tinaspice]

Hoping for a twist and she runs away/elopes

[@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343]

Mrs. Fish became my favorite character this season. She cracks me up every scene she’s in.

[@alexstrongforge]

True! I love her!

[@MauriceRivers415]

I get Gemini vibes from her: she's a social butterfly, an excellent conversationalist, and loves a good scandal/gossip.

[@JpopFanBoy]

​@MauriceRivers415 -she was born on June 8th, so this checks out

[@MauriceRivers415]

@@JpopFanBoy Wow! That's dope.

[@endor8witch]

i always love mrs fish. she's such a shit stirrer LOL she gets people to entertain her with their own dramas

[@jtudor9869]

Ashlie Atkinson was hilarious in a single episode of Boardwalk Empire. She appeared as Giaconda Rosetti, wife of ruthless gangster Gyp Rosetti in season three. She portrayed a bossy wife to perfection.

[@mark8846]

She reminds me of Molly Brown from Titanic

[@boohankins2993]

​@@jtudor9869How funny! I remember that episode so well because he was such a crazy gangster yet was ruled with distain by his wife. I'll have to rewatch the episode. "you got a gun..he got a gun.. everybody's got a gun" (couldn't resist)

[@Amareehall101]

⁠@@mark8846she does but unlike Mrs Brown she definitely two faced and still snooty

[@Amareehall101]

Random but Mrs Astor daughter sitting behind her mother look so BORED. Just like Oscar I wouldn’t be surprise she rather been at the other opera house😩

[@ATWTMVTVFTVSGAVRALPS]

The academy looked so tight and stuffy

[@prettynerd4779]

They say it was compared to the MET which was a showstopper funded by New Money.. THe JP Morgans, Goulds, Rockafellers were all New Money families at this time who couldnt get into the Academy I believe.

[@soheesweetheart]

lol I know right. I believe that is how the Actual Academy of music was described to have looked. No wonder many didn’t show up either, lol. Most of the old money crowd are middle to elder age, they have back and eye problems, whose going to watch an opera they can barely see.

[@raphaelledesma9393]

But that’s true. In fact, the main appeal of the Academy was that it was exclusive and small which means they can easily gatekeep who attends. Nonetheless, the reason the Academy is no more is that it burned down and it never got back its place as the premier opera house due to the MET.

[@ubulive]

Mrs. Fish says what needs to be said

[@jerrygranata445]

And then just 3 years later The Academy of Music closed for good.

[@candacecyrus1815]

Bertha was smart... A marriage of convenience is much better that access to society with no surety of business deals or marriages. The Duke took the better deal, hopefully he courts Gladys so she will want to marry him

[@devchekhov7512]

Bertha's pimping out her daughter to the duke.

[@Kotyk_Murkotyk]

And there was the promise of not having secrets from each other ...

[@tracys169]

OH NO BERTHA...Poor Gladys. :( :( :(

[@jeremyengalla6133]

ugh this was such a good moment lol to see mrs Russel finally win one.

[@MarvelGirl100]

THE SCENE STEALER IS MAMMIE AT 1:00 MARCH 1 2024.

[@TShay92]

There's something at once both fantastic and crude about Bertha. I love how she is soo headstrong and determined but at the same time I literally hate how her relationships with her children is soo transactional. I read more about the real life character and she did really sold her daughter that way.😢

[@n.y.174]

I enjoy Mrs. Fish and her sassy energy "Or does it make it all the more ridiculous???" Savage.

[@brettwalters-n4u]

Apparently, she has been "toned" down for the show as she was outrageous in real life as were her parties.

[@jukukwakuattionu5080]

Poor Gladys she’s been sold.

[@Tessa-vz1qb]

I honestly love Mrs. Asror's cuniness I hope she bounces back from this

[@MauriceRivers415]

Has anyone noticed how rarely (if ever) we see Mr. Astor in these scenes? Mrs. Astor is almost always with Mr. McAllister for social outings, so maybe she's lonely? Or has a lot of time on her hands to be so preoccupied with social registers and snubbing people from her bubble of influence?

[@antoinettedubarry5742]

it was mentioned hes always away on his yacht

[@MauriceRivers415]

@antoinettedubarry5742 Makes you wonder if it's deliberate, to escape his insufferable wife. 😎

[@ronaldwebster9683]

In real life, he was a philanderer and embarrassed her at social events. She eventually got his friends to keep him away when she hosted.

[@soheesweetheart]

Mrs. Astor deliberately, asked friends of her husband, to keep him consistently occupied, unto late hours, because he was a known philander and drunk, who would inconveniently embarrass Mrs. Astor, especially during social gatherings. Their marriage was an arranged marriage, and a not so happy one. The Moment she gave him a son, they stopped seeing each other. Her formulating of New York High society with her cousins, Mr. McAllister, setting herself as the Queen Bee, was a product of her mental health and coping with her domestic life.

[@raphaelledesma9393]

I read that Mrs Astor decided to stay in Newport during Opening Night so as to not be seen to take either side. I have no idea if this is true but I think if so, then the historical Mrs Astor did the most pragmatic thing.

[@modellodime-7429]

Bertha I love you, please don’t tell me you sold off your daughter 🥲

[@cherylstone7256]

I think Gladys is a version of Mary from Downton Abbey

[@MinhNguyen-ff6xf]

She’s more like Cora Levinson

[@jeremyengalla6133]

I was kinda hoping that the gilded age and Downton abbeys time lines would run into each other and we'd see a young Cora and Robert eventually lol but it looks like gladys is taking on a similar storyline.

[@gruweldaad]

thank god Mrs. Fish is here