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The Gilded Age is setting new records with each episode and breaking them with the next. The twists and turns in the penultimate episode of the third season have led to it being the fourth consecutive week that the series has managed to achieve an all-time series high viewership.
The show is heading into the season finale with extremely consistent and high viewership that keeps growing with every episode, setting up an impressive stage for the next season that the show has already been renewed for.
The Gilded Age may have started out as a low-profile release for HBO, but it has consistently grown into a strong lineup for the network. This consistent growth has also motivated the show to take risks it wouldn't normally consider, which are also paying off in the show's ever-growing popularity.
The Gilded Age sets up for a strong Season 3 finale with viewership records in the penultimate episode
The Gilded Age has been setting viewership records with the past four episodes, marking a consistently growing popularity of the show. As per HBO, the show achieved an all-time high viewership for the series for the past three weeks, each week breaking the previous week's records.
The penultimate episode, Episode 7, continued the same trend for the show. Episode 5 of the season achieved 4 million viewers in the first three days after its release, a record that Episode 6 went on to break with a 4.5 million viewership across different platforms.
Episode 7 has crossed all of these limits with 4.6 million viewership in the first three days after it debuted. The show is all set to premiere with the series finale on Sunday, marking a great stage for the exponential growth in viewership.
Episode 7, the penultimate episode for the third season, ended on an extremely mysterious note, where George Russell opened his door to be greeted by a messenger who shot at him in extremely close proximity. The screen turns black after the explosive shot is fired, and the audience has no idea if the bullet actually hit him, and if it did, will he make it out of this alive, or is this the last we've seen of him?
In a conversation with Variety, Morgan Spector, who plays George Russell, gave an extremely ambiguous reply when questioned about his character's fate in the finale and in the upcoming season:
"You should be very worried. In the 19th century, gunshot wounds from up close were extremely dangerous. Many people didn’t survive them. I don’t have a contract for next season yet, so who knows?"
The mystery around George's fate can be a great propellant for even more record-breaking viewership for The Gilded Age. Apart from the cliffhanger, the show's capacity to center around a completely different age while being in a constant dialogue with the contemporary age is one of the most favorable aspects of the show.
On one hand, we're watching George, a money- and power-hungry industrialist, be shot, and on the other, we're reminded of the UnitedHealthcare CEO being shot. In another example, Gladys' wedding in the third season was highly reminiscent of the Bezos' wedding, which took over the media. The uncanny ability of The Gilded Age to keep a dialogue with the audience goes a long way in ensuring its popularity.
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