The Gilded Age
NZ release: 24 January 2022
Violence and content that may disturb Rated on: 26 September 2025
What’s it about?
As Bertha Russell navigates her ambitions and the tensions within her family, social climbing, marriage negotiations, and personal conflicts pit New York’s elite against each other.
The facts
- Created by Julian Fellowes
- Starring Louisa Jacobson, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Carrie Coon, and Morgan Spector
- English language
- 8 episodes, 1 hour each (on average)
Why did it get this rating?
This series was self-rated by NEON. You can find out more about self-rating by streaming providers here.
Sexual themes
A man and woman discuss what having sex will be like after they were setup in an arranged marriage. They are implied to have sex after the conversation, but nothing is shown.
Violence
This show focuses more on drama and society than violence.
However, there is a scene were a young man enters a room disguised as a mailman, before he pulls out a gun and shoots two men, who are seen falling to the ground, but there is no blood shown. He then aims the gun towards a third man’s head and pulls the trigger, before the camera cuts to black. It is unclear as to whether or not this man was shot.
When content stays with you:
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