HBO's Downton Abbey Replacement Adds Snow White Star as Season 4's Plot Is Unveiled

Lee Freitag is a senior author at CBR, with more than three years of experience in entertainment and pop culture journalism. While CBR remains the go-to spot to find Lee's latest articles, his movie and TV news coverage has also been featured on SuperHeroHype and ComingSoon. The Gilded Age Season 4 has just received a major update. The successful period drama, originally envisioned as taking place within the Downton Abbey universe, has added four new stars to its cast and dropped the official logline for its next season.

According to Deadline, Jim Gaffigan (Chappaquiddick), Dallas Roberts (Walk the Line), Elizabeth Marvel (Presumed Innocent), and Andrew Burnap (Snow White) have joined the cast of The Gilded Age Season 4 as guest stars. Additionally, Kelley Curran, who has played Enid "Turner" Winterton since the HBO show's inception, has been promoted to the main cast for Season 4. Who Are the New Gilded Age Additions Playing? Gaffigan and Roberts have been cast as real-life political figures, Grover Cleveland, the 22nd President of the United States, and Daniel Manning, Secretary of the Treasury under President Cleveland, respectively.

In The Gilded Age Season 4, President Cleveland will come to New York to curry favor with the elite class. As for Marvel, she has been cast as Virginia Saville, a kind nurse who works at the Neighborhood Settlement House in the Lower East Side. Burnap, meanwhile, will portray Porter, a young gentleman of Society with an Ivy League education and money to invest in exciting new ventures. They join a returning cast that includes Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Louisa Jacobson, Denee Benton, Cynthia Nixon, Christine Baranski, Harry Richardson, Blake Ritson, Taissa Farmiga, and Audra McDonald, among others.

The Gilded Age Season 4 Plot Revealed The official Season 4 logline for The Gilded Age has also been revealed and reads as follows: "Bertha Russell (Coon) changed Society at a cost. Now, her family must reckon with the consequences as Agnes van Rhijn (Baranski) seizes an opportunity to regain her position." "Meanwhile, Marian (Jacobson) forges a new path for herself and Peggy (Denée Benton) works to be accepted by her future in-laws. In this new era, you must be careful what you wish for," concludes the logline. The Gilded Age was created by Julian Fellowes.

The series was initially conceived as a prequel to Fellowes' other hit period drama, Downton Abbey, and was set to explore Lord Grantham and Cora's romance and eventual marriage as the Earl and Countess of Grantham. However, as development progressed, The Gilded Age's connections to Downton Abbey were dropped in favor of telling a self-contained, standalone story, although Fellowes hasn't ruled out the possibility of eventually tying the HBO series into the world of hit British period drama. Subscribe to the newsletter for deeper Gilded Age coverage Explore deeper takes on The Gilded Age by subscribing to the newsletter: analysis of casting choices, character dynamics, and plot implications that clarify what new additions and shifts mean for the show's next season. Get Updates By subscribing, you agree to receive newsletter and marketing emails, and accept our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

You can unsubscribe anytime. The Gilded Age is set during the boom years of the 1880s in New York City, primarily following Marian Brook, who is drawn into daily conflicts surrounding the new money Russell family and her old money van Rhijn-Brook family. The historical drama is a co-production between HBO and Universal Television. All three seasons of The Gilded Age are streaming on HBO Max.

A release window for the fourth season has not yet been shared at this time. The Gilded Age Like Follow Followed TV-MA Drama History Release Date January 24, 2022 Network HBO Max Showrunner Julian Fellowes Directors Deborah Kampmeier, Salli Richardson-Whitfield Writers Julian Fellowes Cast See All Powered by Expand Collapse