The Gilded Age Season 3 Episode 1: Release date news, time, streaming details, and more

The Gilded Age Season 3 ( Image via YouTube / Max )
The Gilded Age Season 3 ( Image via YouTube / Max )

The Gilded Age Season 3 is coming along. The series resumes following a months-long hiatus after the Season 2 finale. You can catch the season premiere on Sunday, June 22, 2025, at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on HBO. The show will also be streaming simultaneously on Max. The same Sunday night weekly time slot the series has occupied by its previous seasons is the same being utilized.

Before being broadcast, The Gilded Age Season 3 Episode 1 was first shown at the Tribeca Film Festival from June 4 until June 15, 2025. Early screening thrilled audiences with their first look at the launch episode of season 3 further proving HBO's interest in continuing to merge its period drama series with large-scale cultural phenomena. For the masses, though, the premiere viewing of the new episode remains in store for June 22.


Premiere date and weekly schedule

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Season 3 of The Gilded Age will premiere on HBO on Sunday, June 22, 2025, at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. The season will continue in the same weekly episode format, a fresh one each Sunday through to August 10, 2025. The season will contain eight episodes, just like the previous season.

Below is an official release calendar for all of them:

  • Episode 1: June 22, 2025
  • Episode 2: June 29, 2025
  • Episode 3: July 6, 2025
  • Episode 4: July 13, 2025
  • Episode 5: July 20, 2025
  • Episode 6: July 27, 2025
  • Episode 7: August 3, 2025
  • Episode 8: August 10, 2025

Streaming information and international release

The Gilded Age Season 3 will be broadcast on HBO US, and the series will also stream simultaneously on Max for subscribers. Worldwide, the series will stream with official partners.

In Australia and the UK, the series will be available to stream on Sky Atlantic and NOW on Monday 23 June, 2025.It will also be broadcast on Sky Serie in Italy starting on 23 June.

This strategy will provide near-simultaneous global release of Season 3, keeping the world in sync with the US broadcast with minimal delay.


Plot and episode focus

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While HBO formally hasn't revealed the Season 3 premiere title, there are some rumors that the narrative will pick up from where Season 2 left us. The Gilded Age Season 3 remains focused on the shifting power structures of New York during the 1880s and the conflict among old-money aristocrats and new-money industrialists.

The show will have to feature Bertha Russell's ongoing attempts to position her family within society, Marian Brook, Peggy Scott, and the Van Rhijn sisters' changed lives, with tensions between old money and new money still a common thread holing the series together with increased political zeal and social unrest.

The show seems primed to continue adding to the cultural and racial narratives initiated in previous seasons, most notably with Peggy's activism and reporting.


Regular cast members and recruits

The Gilded Age Season 3 follows its regular cast:

  • Carrie Coon as Bertha Russell
  • Morgan Spector as George Russell
  • Louisa Jacobson as Marian Brook
  • Denée Benton as Peggy Scott
  • Christine Baranski as Agnes Van Rhijn
  • Cynthia Nixon as Ada Brook

New joiners to the cast for Season 3 are

  • Phylicia Rashad
  • Bill Camp
  • Jordan Donica

The new cast members will introduce new storylines and new counterpoints to the current family feud and class war that the show has ever seen.


Filming locations and visual backdrop

The Gilded Age Season 3 has been filmed in different historically appropriate locations across the United States. Some of the major filming locations are:

  • Troy, Albany, and Schenectady, in New York
  • Newport, Rhode Island

These shoot locations also provide the period architecture and details that are the hallmarks of the program. Location filming in these towns, some of which have maintained their Gilded Age-era facades, contributes to the visual realism of the program and enables the viewer to be transported into late 19th-century settings.


What's coming up for season 3

The Gilded Age Season 3 seems to keep the series' previous preoccupation with financial woes, social climbing, and cultural resistance. Its melodrama of contention between "old money" mansions and the ascending industrial bourgeoisie remains its general plot structure, as Bertha Russell continues to ascend in high society. Meanwhile, character-based storylines for Marian and Peggy raise questions of how individuals navigate through stifling cultural conventions in a time of epochal change.

Though the theme of each episode is a mystery, viewers will be able to see more subversion of political, familial, and social power structures in the background of New York as it moves towards faster modernization.


The Gilded Age Season 3 officially premieres on June 22, 2025, for eight episodes up to August 10, 2025. Official updates about the cast, broadcast timings, and availability to stream tell us precisely what to expect. Some facts—such as episode titles—are unofficial, but the general concept progresses along the series' usual blend of money, identity, and change in later-Civil-War New York.

Period drama enthusiasts have something to anticipate where extra story layering in the series has been built on, and new viewers are invited to catch up on previous seasons on Max before Season 3. Production, casting, and shooting continuity allow for a seamless comeback for a show that has comfortably become a period drama staple.

Also read: The Gilded Age Season 3: Release date news, cast details, streaming details and more about the upcoming chapter of HBO's historical drama

Edited by Ayesha Mendonca