In a world of velvet gloves and sharpened daggers… power never stays polite for long.
New York, 1884.
The age of opulence is no longer just about inheritance—it’s about ambition, strategy, and survival.
The Russells have arrived. No longer dismissed as nouveau riche, they now set the tone for society’s most exclusive circles. Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon), more determined than ever, sets her gaze beyond Fifth Avenue—toward the royal courts of Europe. But her rise sends tremors through the foundations of Old Money. Mrs. Astor, humiliated once, won’t suffer defeat twice. The war for social supremacy resumes—and this time, it’s global.
Meanwhile, Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) refuses to play by the rules of polite womanhood. Her choices shock the elite, even as they illuminate a new way forward. Peggy Scott (Denée Benton) must choose between safety and her voice, as her journalism begins to expose not only injustice—but the cracks within her own community.
And Oscar Van Rhijn? His secrets, long buried beneath charm and legacy, are beginning to surface—and threaten to unravel everything his family name once protected.
From gilded salons to smoky boardrooms, from New York to Paris, the game has changed.
Every social call is a calculation. Every alliance, a wager.
And no fortune—no matter how old or new—is ever truly secure.
💎 Season 3 raises the stakes with more elegance, more betrayal, and more power plays under the lace-trimmed surface.
Because in this age, status isn’t a gift.
It’s a war.