'The golden age': a luxury

If someone who wrote the script for

and the

series , and who is also a life peer of the British Conservative Party, that is, Julian Fellowes, submits a project about New York high society at the end of the 19th century, the The

same one that Edith Wharton described in her

, extraordinarily adapted to the cinema by Martin Scorsese, is to bet on a winning horse.

And that winning horse has a name and nine chapters:

(HBO Max), probably the most luxurious and tasteful television production of all that can be seen today, with the addition of dialogue as impeccable as the decoration, costumes and interiors.

On some occasion Gonzalo Suárez compared the budget of a single shot of an American film with the total budget of a Spanish film.

In

there are sequences, such as the dance at the end of the series, that are equivalent to several Spanish films.

But it is not only a question of economic power: the contempt of the genuine high society of New York towards the nouveaux riches who yearn to integrate themselves into that elitist circle, and the implacable cruelty that the money of the "upstarts" concedes are shown with great skill and talent based on brilliant dialogues, brilliant even between the butlers and the large service of the mansions.

Add an excellent cast, with a Christine Baranski who left the firm of

to become the last bastion of the Old Regime, or Cynthia Nixon — far from her role in

— or the promising Louisa Gummer, youngest daughter of Meryl Streep, and the result is a great series.

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