Creator Julian Fellowes previously revealed he doesn’t know how the show will end.
The end of The Gilded Age season three is here, and fans are anxious to learn about the future of the period drama.
In July 2025, HBO officially renewed the series for a fourth season. “We couldn’t be prouder of the undeniable viewership heights The Gilded Age has achieved this season,” Francesca Orsi, EVP, HBO Programming, Head of HBO Drama Series and Films said. “Transporting us to 1880s New York City, Julian Fellowes and the enormously talented cast and crew have created a ‘cant-miss it’ entertainment experience from week to week, and we’re delighted to continue exploring these characters’ grand ambitions for what we promise will be a thrilling fourth season.”
Creator Julian Fellowes doesn’t yet know how the series will end. “I don’t think we do have a final stopping place because we’re not told there’ll be a fourth series or a fifth or whatever,” he told TV Insider. “But each time you have to reinvent the show in order to give it a new dynamic to fit its new proportions. And I think that is part of our job. That’s part of what you do if you write a series for television. So in a sense, each [season] has to have a satisfactory conclusion given what’s taken place within the series, but an open end where we may be going to, and that is the sort of double discipline that we write to really.”
After the season three finale, actor Morgan Spector told T&C, “The palette of the series has expanded to where somebody can almost die and we can do gory surgery on them, and the relationships that have been central to the show can maybe disintegrate; maybe some of the things that we thought were the pillars of the series are not as stable as we believed. Because of that, I think the world can get bigger and richer. The Gilded Age will always be The Gilded Age in a certain way, but we’re pushing at the edges and expanding the boundaries of what that can mean. I think that’s really exciting, not just for all of us as actors, but for the audience as well.”
Actresses Denée Benton, Taissa Farmiga, and Louisa Jacobson also shared their thoughts on future storylines with Town & Country earlier this year, including the potential for a musical episode.
We’ll update this as we learn more about The Gilded Age season four.
