Season 3 of The Gilded Age has also not lacked in drama with a failed marriage and plotting against one another among the elite socialites ...
Season 3 of The Gilded Age has also not lacked in drama with a failed marriage and plotting against one another among the elite socialites and intelligent business people of New York City. However, the greatest shock of them all occurred at the final episode of season 6 John Adams passed away.
Claybourne Elders character was quite popular and he was killed accidentally when coming in a carriage and was hit. The defining scene occurred when he responded to his friend and former lover Oscar van Rhijn (Blake Ritson) when he was in debt and back on with the woman that took all his money named Maud Beaton (Nicole Brydon Bloom).
John is dead and that means a lot since Julian Fellowes is so popular with his historical drama about the elite New York society of the 1800s. It also concludes an aborted LGBTQ story between Oscar and John on the series.
The Gilded Age found John as a potential love interest of Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson), Oscar cousin.
It was soon evident that John, who can claim a lineage going back to President John Adams, together with Oscar were involved in an affair.
Since both of the guys led clean lives, their relationship became harder. Oscar has in the first two seasons attempted to date and tried to propose to Gladys Russell (Taissa Farmiga). John was aware of what Oscar was up to but did not concur with him.
John would break up with the two later but he was still on the show albeit very little. In season 2, playwright Oscar Wilde (Jordan Waller) was an admirer of him when he came up to New York to attend his play, Vera; or The Nihilists. However, later during the presentation, John shared with Oscar (van Rhijn) that he was dating another man and he was happy with who he is as a gay man.
John also comes to Oscar in season 3 because Oscar, having money issues, wanted to be back in business and career-wise again and John offers an investment to him as a way of helping him. Oscar could access an amount to pay back the finance and begin climbing up the ladder once he had written Oscar a cheque.
The good luck of Oscar was almost destroyed when Maud returned. She turned out to be a stripper at a men strip club. He also learned that she had squandered every penny she had stolen out of him in season 2 after he went up to her over it.
Oscar later had a change of mind and he purchased her a train ticket to Sandusky in Ohio and handed her 100 dollars but warned her that she could not come back to Manhattan.
In episode 6, John said, I like this new Oscar van Rhijn after their part time from one another.
He then reassures his friend that the same thing happened to Maud who lost her cash as well. When talking to Oscar, John said he would spend more on his profession as they walked through the street. He said Oscar stood out as a person who beat odds. NEW: Actor with hearing loss, Oscar, overcame the odds.
This is where we sever, John said, Then he said that the two will reunite later on when he came along a fresh investor who Oscar can work with as his latest and possible lucky client. Said Oscar, "Thou art my saviour." Thanks a lot to the bottom of my heart.
Then when John ventured out into the street to find a carriage, one struck him and killed him before the eyes of Oscar who was shocked and bewildered.
On discussing with Out magazine on the impact of playing the role of John on the show, Elder thought about how it influenced him.
Elder wrote, "The Gilded Age has meant so much to me." Being a queer actor myself, it is not only exciting but also valuable to get to perform a queer role in this historical time. There were gay people in the late 1800s, and it was challenging to figure out how to be open about it or how to make space to be, but we can find evidence that they loved each other and found ways to create spaces to do so.
He continued to say that he liked John because he was complex and was trying to do a good thing in a world that did not always accommodate him. He also considered it badass as the character of John was based on some real-life situation. It serves as a reminder to us that LGBT people have always existed within the narrative even though history might not have tended to put a spotlight on them. It is such an honour to be able to do that.
When asked by PEOPLE in an exclusive interview on the third season, Fellowes concurs with Elder that John had to live during a period when he could not be openly as he is. With John Adams the main worry I had was there were a lot of people who are forced to act like they are something that they are not in a society in which there is no acceptance of anything that is abnormal. A lot of people are coloring the truth, you know, more or less successfully."
Generally, Oscar lives his dual life without frightening the horses and so forth, says Fellowes. This makes him joke that when the actual grief is put there, then it is all unbalanced with the fact that one is not able to just pretend that nothing happens and that you are alright and everything is okay. You need to struggle on any way possible.
Season three of The Gilded Age television series is on HBO and Max on Sunday at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.
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