The Gilded Age is back for a second season starting this October on HBO.

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes brings back his HBO original drama series on Oct. 29 at 9 p.m. on HBO and for streaming on Max. The season brings audiences back into the time period of the show’s namesake, a time of great upheaval of old ideas and the introduction of new technologies.

While viewers will be watching The Gilded Age during the fall, the second season takes place during the spring of 1883, in which the cast of characters are facing successes, setbacks and more.

According to the official description:

The American Gilded Age was a period of immense economic change, of great conflict between the old ways and brand new systems, and of huge fortunes made and lost. Season two of THE GILDED AGE begins on Easter morning 1883, with the news that Bertha Russell’s bid for a box at the Academy of Music has been rejected. Through the eight episodes of the season, we watch as Bertha challenges Mrs. Astor and the old system and works to not only gain a foothold in Society, but to potentially take a leading role in it. George Russell takes on his own battle with a growing union at his steel plant in Pittsburgh. In the Brook House, Marian continues her journey to find her way in the world secretly teaching at a girls school while much to everyone’s surprise Ada begins a new courtship. Of course, Agnes approves of none of it. In Brooklyn, the Scott family begins to heal from a shocking discovery, and Peggy taps into her activist spirit through her work with T. Thomas Fortune at the NY Globe.

The series stars Audra McDonald, Chrstine Baranski, Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Louisa Jacobson, Denée Benton, Ben Ahlers, Michael Cerveris, Kelley Curran, Taissa Farmiga, Jack Gilpin, Simon Jones, Sullivan Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Debra Monk, Donna Murphy, Kristine Nielsen, Kelli O’Hara, Patrick Page, Harry Richardson, Taylor Richardson, Blake Ritson, Douglas Sills, Erin Wilhelmi, Nathan Lane, John Douglas Thompson, Ashlie Atkinson, Laura Benanti, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Christopher Denham, David Furr, Ward Horton, Matilda Lawler and Robert Sean Leonard.

Fellowes serves as creator, writer and executive producer. Gareth Neame, David Crockett, Michael Engler, Bob Greenblatt and Sonja Warfield also executive produce with Crockett directing and Greenblatt serving as writer. Salli-Richardson Whitfield also produces. HBO co-produces with Universal Television.

Denée Benton

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