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Step into the lavish world of HBO’s “The Gilded Age” as we explore some of the series’ most heartfelt and intimate romantic moments. From tender proposals and stolen kisses to secret affairs and quiet acts of devotion, these scenes reveal the deep passions and complexities of love amid the opulence and social challenges of the time. Get ready to feel all the emotions behind these unforgettable gestures.
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00:00May I stay with you tonight?
00:02You have only to ask.
00:04Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:06And today, we're counting down our picks for the most significant and moving gestures between couples on HBO's epic period drama, The Gilded Age.
00:13There will be spoilers.
00:15Peggy, do I hear wedding bells?
00:19Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
00:23Number 10. Mr. Borden understands.
00:26The Russell's chef, Josh Borden, and housekeeper, Mrs. Bruce, seem fairly casual in their special friendship.
00:32Then Borden proposes marriage from out of nowhere.
00:35I would like to ask you to be my wife, Mrs. Bruce.
00:38As a matter of fact, I've been carrying this around for weeks.
00:42His mood drops just as suddenly when Mrs. Bruce turns him down.
00:45But she reveals that her husband is still alive and committed to a hospital due to mental illness.
00:50How long has he been ill?
00:52Looking back, I suppose I refused to see the signs until they became impossible to ignore.
01:03That was about 10 years ago.
01:05She worried that the truth would make Borden see her as a victim or unfaithful.
01:09He instead praises her strength and empathy for her estranged husband.
01:12You think me foolish.
01:15On the contrary, I think you noble.
01:18This exemplifies their own relationship as being based on a respect that high society would likely stigmatize.
01:24Borden and Bruce don't need a piece of paper to understand their commitment to one another.
01:29I want to remember every tiny detail, every moment.
01:33Then remember this.
01:37Mr. Borden.
01:39Number 9. Mutual Support with a Bit of Passion.
01:43George is rattled after conceding to the Steelworkers Union to avoid a violent strike break.
01:47Bertha consoles him with intimacy that night, but is quick to change the subject to her pettier problems.
01:53Mrs. Astor has made me an offer and now I don't know what to do.
01:56What sort of offer?
01:57A box at the Academy of Music.
02:01And?
02:02I must consider it, George.
02:03Of course, the so-called opera war doesn't seem petty to George.
02:07He eagerly advises his wife to not yield to Mrs. Astor's offer of a box seat at the Academy of Music
02:12if she ceases promotion of the Metropolitan Opera House.
02:15At the Met, you'll be a founding member, and you can reign supreme.
02:21You don't need to be in Mrs. Astor's shadow.
02:24You make a good case.
02:26It's your case. I'm just repeating it.
02:29The stakes are hardly as high as the financial and moral crisis in the business community's feud with unions.
02:34So George putting that aside to help his wife sums up the mutual support that defines a mature marriage.
02:40The aforementioned intimacy does help, though.
02:42What was that for?
02:45I can't stop thinking about Pittsburgh and what could have happened if they started firing.
02:49Number 8.
02:50John Adams Invests in Oscar
02:52Oscar Van Ryn and John Adams IV have their own love language,
02:56muted by 19th century society's suppression of homosexuality.
02:59John reluctantly accepts reality when his lover ends the affair in Season 2 to find a wife.
03:04It's different for you. You've got brothers.
03:06I am the torchbearer of the House of Van Ryn.
03:13Don't hate me.
03:16I will never hate you.
03:18By the time they reunite at a party in Season 3, Oscar is scammed out of his inheritance and struggling to raise capital.
03:28John doesn't hesitate to offer a loan to entice investors, out of his love and respect for Oscar.
03:34I'll write a check for you to invest, and when I talk about it, others will follow.
03:38Would you do that for me?
03:40I'd do anything for you.
03:44They could never be together in public, but the seemingly typical scene of two men doing business is distinguished by a deeper motivation.
03:51Only after John dies in a carriage accident does Oscar come to terms with his true love.
03:56I'm sure you don't want to hear that I miss him.
03:59Do you know, I sat in the back row of his funeral like a stranger who walked in to get out of the rain.
04:07When I should have taken my rightful...
04:10Oscar.
04:11Oh my...
04:11Oscar.
04:13Number 7. Larry and Mrs. Blaine in bed.
04:15The Gilded Age is generally far off from what modern audiences and HBO would consider scandalous.
04:21In fact, when Larry and Susan Blaine cozy up in bed together, they talk through the scandal of their affair.
04:26You worry too much.
04:29No one cares.
04:32People care.
04:33Larry accepts that he must not be seen in public with the wealthy widow, but he assures her of his love.
04:39Mrs. Blaine in turn reveals that she's been developing feelings beyond a mere tryst with a handsome younger man.
04:45I'm not sowing any wild oats.
04:49Because I love you.
04:54And I'm very much afraid that I love you, Mr. Russell.
04:58Which is not part of the original plan.
05:00It doesn't last, of course, as Mrs. Blaine ends the affair to protect Larry's reputation.
05:06For a moment, though, she knew that she could love again.
05:09Here I was thinking we had a future.
05:11But no.
05:12Bye, Larry.
05:14Look after yourself and...
05:16Please try to be kind when you think of me.
05:20Number 6.
05:22A Walk Through Central Park.
05:23What about luncheon at Delmonico's?
05:25Madison Square, I mean, of course.
05:27Not Broadway.
05:28I don't know the difference, but no.
05:30Well, what about coffee?
05:32Where?
05:33In some salubrious hotel.
05:36The St. Cloud?
05:37Or the Metropolitan?
05:38You know your way around already.
05:40I'm a quick learner.
05:41Upstart lawyer John Rakes seems to embody all of Marion Brooks' romantic ideas about her fellow New York transplants.
05:47Their meager courtship suddenly escalates during a stroll through Central Park with Peggy.
05:51When the couple is alone, Tom waxes poetic about his dreams in the big city, then shocks Marion with a marriage proposal.
05:58Mr. Rakes, we've only met a handful of times.
06:01You see, for me, I knew it once when you came to my office for help that time.
06:07I could have asked you then, but now I'll keep on asking until you say no.
06:10She eventually accepts, even if it means being cut off from the family fortune.
06:15The passion is always evident.
06:17But sadly, not enough.
06:18Tom ends up begrudgingly opting to marry Sissy Bingham for financial security.
06:22We know New York now, you and I.
06:25There's a life to be lived here, and a good life.
06:28But two penniless strangers from out of town could not have hoped to live it.
06:31But Miss Bingham can make sure of that life for you?
06:36Well, why not?
06:38She won't suit the old crowd, but she'll do well enough with the new, and her fortune is more than ample for both of you.
06:43This dampens his and Marion's once sincere love story, but the fantasy of that fateful afternoon in the park is undeniably infectious.
06:51Number 5. Bertha and George Reconcile
06:54If I were you, I would discuss it with George before you decide to stir things up.
06:57George? You mean Mr. Russell?
06:59So he never told you about us?
07:03Funny, I thought that was why I was sacked, because you were jealous.
07:06Jealous of what?
07:07You should ask your husband.
07:10It's anything but a romantic moment when Bertha discovers that before her former lady's maid,
07:15Ena Turner, married into money, she attempted to seduce George.
07:18This leads to a heated rift.
07:20Despite Bertha believing that her husband did not succumb to the advances,
07:24she's just hurt that he didn't trust her to trust him.
07:27It was never her claim that hurt me, but your silence.
07:31Will you forgive me now?
07:33If I do enjoy it, there will be no more forgiveness if you hide any such thing from me again.
07:40The two embrace and apologize for how they've hurt each other.
07:43This tees up the aftermath of a narrowly successful society dinner,
07:47when George coyly reminds Bertha that he only has eyes for her.
07:50Have I told you how lovely you look tonight?
07:53Several times.
08:00George.
08:02They retire to their chambers, finally, and literally put this matter to bed.
08:08Number 4.
08:09Bridget's Dinner with Jack
08:10Van Ryn housemaid Bridget has had a flirtatious friendship with footman and aspiring entrepreneur Jack Trotter,
08:16but childhood trauma has made her apprehensive toward men.
08:19That made me jump.
08:21Don't worry.
08:22I'll look after you.
08:23Not like that.
08:24I only...
08:25Not like that.
08:26Romantic prospects seem dashed when the fortune Jack makes off of selling his alarm clock
08:31allows him to acquire his own household.
08:33However, he invites Bridget to join him when she brings dinner to his lavish new home.
08:38I'm a servant.
08:39Not in this house.
08:41Well, in this house, you're a guest of the master.
08:45Do you mean it?
08:46Of course I do.
08:47Finally, someone treats her like the ladies she's always treated.
08:51While there's still an air of will they or won't they over this enchanted evening,
08:54this distortion of class marks the beginning of a deeper friendship and Bridget finding peace
08:58with a good man.
09:00I'm honored to welcome you.
09:03It feels very safe with you here.
09:07Can I say that without making you feel uncomfortable?
09:10I'm not uncomfortable.
09:12Not at all.
09:13Number 3.
09:15Ada and Luke Dance
09:17It's to be Aida.
09:18Have you heard it?
09:20I...
09:20I know it's very moving.
09:23It's a love story.
09:25Well...
09:26Of course, it's a tragic love story.
09:30Ada's lonely days are merely stalled by her tragically brief marriage to Luke Forte.
09:35It's a love story of mere moments between the pastor's sweet proposal and sudden death.
09:39But one seemingly mundane moment makes it all count.
09:42As the newlyweds settle into married bliss, their new music box begins loudly playing Strauss'
09:47The Blue Danube.
09:48The couple turn the parlor into their personal ballroom, expressing all the giddy, youthful
09:52feelings they had thought were lost to time.
09:54You make me feel as if I were 16 again.
09:57Is that good?
10:00It feels good to me.
10:01Luke is diagnosed with cancer soon thereafter.
10:04In their final moments together, Ada affirms that the long-sought love of her life has finally
10:08given that life the strength to carry on.
10:10With that, it feels as if their fleeting happiness will linger.
10:16For what?
10:19For loving me back.
10:23How could I not?
10:25Number 2.
10:26Marion and Larry's First Kiss
10:28Let the three of us be friends, in spite of everything.
10:32Contra mundo.
10:34There were the usual hints at romance between Marion Brooke and Larry Russell throughout the
10:38first two seasons of The Gilded Age.
10:40After several rich yet ill-fated romantic arcs, they finally realized the obvious while walking
10:45home from the Met.
10:46Will you stay in New York?
10:48I hope so.
10:50I love New York.
10:51I love everything about it.
10:54Good.
10:54I'd hate for us to have to say goodbye.
10:58You'll never say goodbye.
11:00We know far too much about each other's lives not to be friends forever.
11:05Their euphoric talk of the future and their friendship is interrupted by an impulsive kiss.
11:09Thus begins the initially secretive romance that fans had been waiting for.
11:13Then the relationship really gets complicated throughout a messy season three.
11:17With how Marion and Larry's courtship began, after so much build-up, we'll continue to root
11:22for them.
11:23One thing we can be sure of, we're not going to solve all our problems tonight.
11:31But, Miss Brooke, may I have this dance?
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12:01Number 1.
12:03Dr. Kirkland Proposes
12:05Peggy Scott's poor luck in love continues into her courtship of Dr. William Kirkland.
12:10Even within the overburdened community of Black High Society, Peggy is stigmatized because
12:15her father was born a slave.
12:16After I was freed, I came north to take advantage of the opportunities that came with emancipation.
12:22Oh, I see.
12:29William is torn between his love for her and his respect for his mother's wishes, especially
12:33after learning about Peggy's tragic past.
12:35Mrs. Kirkland eventually concedes to her son's devotion when her husband takes a stand for
12:40love.
12:41Thus, William surprises Peggy at the Newport Ball.
12:43When you left, I thought it was over.
12:46Pardon.
12:48I promise never to leave you again if you'll have me.
12:52In front of their entire community, he gets down on one knee and proposes.
12:56Besides a symbol of solidarity among Black Americans, this moment at last marks true happiness for
13:01Peggy and the very height of romantic television.
13:04Dr. Kirkland is a fine man and we are all looking forward to dancing at your wedding.
13:11What moments on the Gilded Age put down your emotional guard?
13:17Mingle in the comments below.
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