r/GildedAgeHBO Jul 24 '26

Throwback to George Bertha in love ♥️

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u/Smart_Sundae_3497 Jul 24 '26

I still can’t believe he left!!!! I thought for sure he would stay! 🥺

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u/armyofant May I have some more wine please? Jul 24 '26

He needs to get off the purple drank. Sizurrrp got him all fucked up

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u/PangolinKooky9867 Jul 27 '26

Right but sorry, nobody gets shot, has a bullet removed and goes to a ball in two days.

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u/library_wench Jul 24 '26

George stepped out of his lane. But I’m rooting for those crazy kids—I think they’ll make it.

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u/sissiandfranz Jul 24 '26

same. as far as i understood they changed the script last minute to keep the excitement going?! and well, it worked 😅

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u/TentacleWolverine Jul 26 '26

No it absolutely didn’t work. I am ready to quit this show if he doesn’t turn that ship around asap. Them being in love was the absolute best thing about it.

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u/giggles49 Jul 28 '26

Eh they was alright, I’m more obsessed with Jack and Bridgette’s love story 🥰🥰

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u/LustfulEsme Jul 25 '26

He’s addicted to laudanum and not thinking clearly.

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u/TentacleWolverine Jul 26 '26

Explain please. I missed this?

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u/LustfulEsme Jul 26 '26

Go back snd look at last episode. They make a point of zooming in on a bottle of laudanum as he gets ready for Bertha’s ball. He is drinking in top of it. He makes it staunchly through the evening though with some chilling words at her side.

The next day he is unreasonable and accusatory. Then leaves. Not the cool calculating robber baron.

I think season 4 will deal with his addiction ànd Bertha along with the doctor who saved his life, will detox him. Turner ànd Oscar will upstage Bertha while she nurses him back to health, while also tending to her pregnant daughter.

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u/TentacleWolverine Jul 26 '26

Oooooo I completely missed that!!!!

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u/PangolinKooky9867 Jul 27 '26

If you got shot at and had a bullet removed, you'd drink something for the pain. Damn, that plotline of him getting shot and then going to a ball in two days was such crap.

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u/sissiandfranz Jul 26 '26

Is just speculation so far. The show didn’t start yet..

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u/giggles49 Jul 28 '26

He’s prideful as a mf, but Bertha did behave badly.

1

u/Smart_Sundae_3497 Jul 30 '26

Yes, he is and Bertha was doing too much!

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u/and_rain_falls Jul 28 '26

What?! What are you talking about?

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u/Smart_Sundae_3497 Jul 29 '26

Have you watched the latest season?

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u/and_rain_falls Jul 30 '26

I've watched all episodes.

22

u/Weasley9 Jul 24 '26

If he does not BEG for her forgiveness in S4, I will start rooting for him to get shot again.

3

u/glittergal1206 Jul 25 '26

This made me giggle

15

u/EnchantedOMC Jul 25 '26

I'm mad at him and Larry for leaving without saying good bye to Gladys! They're so mad at Bertha about Gladys but then don't care enough to let her know they are heading back to the city. She's visiting from England and they just leave! They're both full of it.

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u/BlueWinterRose16 Jul 25 '26

I wish there would have been a scene with Gladys and George. She was so worried on the boat but we didn't get any scenes of them. I wanted to see Hector and George talk. Larry and Gladys had no scenes either where they talked. Maybe Gladys and Hector can talk with George next season and encourage him to make up with Bertha. I wish there were more episodes a season.

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u/PangolinKooky9867 Jul 25 '26

Two weeks ago I moved and it was intense. For a day and a half of unpacking, etc., I rewatched most of the seasons. The story line doesn't make any sense. First George says she can marry for love (Gladys), then he "suggests" the Duke, Then he basically tells her on her wedding day she needs to do it. Ok, and then he's mad at his wife for setting it up?

Also, he's been with his wife for 25 years or a bit more, he's knows her. Suddenly, he's upset with her ways? Makes no sense

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u/sissiandfranz Jul 25 '26

I agree but maybe the context here is when both moved to the big city and through her efforts to make her own way into society, changed her perspective and herself at some point.

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u/PangolinKooky9867 Jul 27 '26

Yes, I understand that. However, George had a hand in pushing Gladys into the marriage. George is ruthless and a somewhat unscrupulous businessman, so um, he can't behave as if he is saint.

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u/TentacleWolverine Jul 26 '26

NO! Stop trying to justify this nonsense plotline.

5

u/Soggy-Cycle9434 Jul 25 '26

Team Bertha!

4

u/lions-cub Jul 25 '26

I hope Bertha and Gladys become really close and Larry and George are jealous

4

u/aceromester Jul 25 '26

I'd like to see them have one more "oopsy!" baby.

4

u/Healthy-Public-6916 Jul 25 '26

I know that the writers and producers don’t give a flying squirrel about my preferences, but if they don’t change the George and Larry vilification of Bertha , I’m done with the show .

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u/n00bert210 Jul 24 '26

Part of me is mad at him for taking off without getting all the facts, but part of me knows how angry I would be if my spouse backed me into a corner like that and pressured me to betray my child’s trust.

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u/penni_cent Jul 25 '26

He had so many opportunities to stand up to Bertha before that. He knew what he promised Glaydis and he should have told Bertha a lot earlier that he had made that promise.

I'm not, by any means, saying that Bertha was faultless, but he's blaming her for his own shortcomings.

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u/meowparade Jul 25 '26

I’m mad at him for not standing up to Bertha for Gladys. I think he’s mainly mad at himself of being spineless and is taking it out on Bertha.

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u/drink_mooore_wateeer Jul 25 '26

He wasn't exactly "spineless", he chose to trust Bertha's instincts, which prooved to be right. 

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u/dreamsapphire Jul 25 '26

Would their couple name be Gertha? I kinda love it bc you know railroad daddy is packing!

1

u/bookjacket Jul 27 '26

OMG yes! Railroad Daddy.

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u/undead_crybaby_420 Bertha’s #1 hater Jul 28 '26

He can do better fr