51 Thoughts I Had While Watching ‘The Gilded Age’ Season 3 Finale

I am mostly locked in on terrible aughts rom-coms these days (when it’s this hot in Los Angeles, they are my only solace), but I took a welcome break this week for the Season 3 finale of The Gilded Age, everyone’s favorite show about a bunch of perfect women—including Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Denée Benton, Taissa Farmiga, Louisa Jacobson, and Audra McDonald—and some random men with extremely groomed facial hair. Below, find every thought I had about the last episode of this season of The Gilded Age:

1. I love when the content warning is for “smoking and mild violence.”
2. My kind of show!
3. I’m very worried about George.
4. (For those inexplicably reading my recap instead of watching the show for yourselves, he’s been shot.)
5. Carrie Coon-Emmy-qualification time!
6. Go, girl, give us everything.
7. Doctors really used to just operate with clean water, ice, and towels.
8. I’m glad the doctor specified clean water, TBH.
9. For someone who’s been watching Grey’s Anatomy for most of my life, I’m really hating this bullet-retrieval scene.
10. Actually, this doctor kind of slayed.
11. Presiding over your husband’s kitchen-table surgery in a dress featuring not one, not two, but three butt bows…that’s my Carrie Coon, she’s iconic.
12. Marian’s bangs are really bang-ing today!
13. Albeit in different directions.
14. Make young, aimless men in New York go to church again. (Or temple, or mosque, or zendo, whatever, just get them out of Nowadays.)
15. Man, it’s going to be upsetting to stop hearing Cynthia Nixon toggle between Little Period Voice and Miranda Hobbes voice when And Just Like That… is over this week.
16. Wow, George looks pretty good for having recently been shot!
17. “I’m going back to the club.” Now that truly sounds like a Nowadays fuckboy!
18. The Jewish-mother need to see Peggy marry a handsome doctor…it is strong within me.
19. Peggy, no! Don’t cry!
20. Now I’m crying!
21. What is this jumprope around Agnes’s neck?
22. Oh, it’s a lace collar.
23. This lady whose name I can’t remember kind of looks like Mary Louise Parker.
24. Ah, yes, the “scourge of divorce.”
25. I love how much Larry’s parents ride for Marian.
26. Should I make my Instagram bio “feeble debutante”?
27. A cotillion of divorcees actually sounds like a really fun night out…or a description of last year’s biggest literary-fiction trend.
28. Imagine being a party planner in this era. So many invitations, so many balls!
29. And no access to GCal!
30. Nobody really cares if you don’t go to the party, Marian.
31. Words to live by!
32. Aw, Agnes giving up the head of the table to Ada? I never thought I’d see the day!
33. And clearly, neither did Ada.
34. Talk about a legendary hat meet-up!
35. I never, ever want Audra McDonald to be mad at me for any reason.
36. I don’t hate the good doctor’s white pinstriped suit!
37. Ball time!!!!!!!!!!
38. Bertha looks good.
39. Heh, this “end-of-season finery” comment feels meta.
40. It is the end of Season 3, after all!
41. Aw, it’s a mother-and-child reunion.
42. “I’ve got a house on the Hudson, but it’s quite modest” —the absolute richest person you know.
43. Aw, I just want Peggy to be happy.
44. Ditto Marian.
45. We love a tiny moment (okay, crumb) of romance between Bertha and George.
46. Well, that’s over in a very real way.
47. I do like Bertha’s fussy little ruffle collar, though, if not the state of her marriage.
48. Women love to hold onto brocade sectionals while they double over crying on this show.
49. Aw, Gladys is pregnant!
50. Oh, The Gilded Age, I will miss you (and your various hats) so greatly. Come back onto my TV screen soon!
51. Oh, slay, it’s already been renewed.