Warning: SPOILERS For The Gilded Age Season 3Jack Trotter’s (Ben Ahlers) quest for the American Dream separates The Gilded Age from Downton Abbey. Both of creator Julian Fellowes’ popular historical dramas deal with wealth, class, and privilege. However, Fellowes delineates the profound differences between The Gilded Age‘s early 19th-century America and Downton Abbey‘s England in the early 20th century.
