I am so excited for The golden age Season 4 that I cannot stop talking about it since the final of season 3, which I am still not finished. Large changes are on the horizon of Bertha (Carrie Coon) with George (Morgan Spector) who leaves her for good, while Gladys (Taissa Farmiga) is pregnant after marrying the Duke of Buckingham.
Until now, we have focused on what the recent past means for the future of Bertha. After George’s brief dance with death, he admits that he no longer knows if he is in love with his wife, leaving radically before having the chance to collect his thoughts. With Gladys’ pregnancy, she essentially obtained her dream, an old life of soulless money in the world to share if.
But what happens if the old money underway against the new money battle is the bad thing to focus on? Two distinct rivals are on the right track to stir up the fire between Bertha and the life it wants, but I think it is life that the earth could accidentally land that has the most attention (spoiler: it implies feminism).
Carrie Coon thinks Bertha could have a `feminist awakening ” in season 4 of the golden age, and I agree
Addressing Deadline, Coon explained: “One of the things that happens when Bertha and Gladys can meet at the end of the season [Bertha]I will have to think about what she did, even if she succeeds, it is not without complications. It was not without cost.
“This kind of emerging feminist awakening would be a really interesting pursuit for her, whether marriage lasts or not. […] I think she is not quite far on the way to this exploration to understand exactly what happened. We attract him in the middle of trying to treat this moment. “”
Inadvertently, I think she hit the nail on her head here. The previous seasons of the HBO Max show have been ticking wrong not to be similar to the last, and see Bertha slipping in sister suffragette mode would be such a subtle way of producing change and personal redemption.
Regarding timing, we are also right. The suffrage of women in the United States approached the end of the 19th and early 20th century, with demand for such interest in the 1840s. The first official movements met in 1869, and we are only a few years ago.
With the magic of television, The golden age Season 4 could easily come back with a time jump, or maybe Bertha immerses himself in the basic beginnings of female suffrage to move away from his own problems.
Personally, I think that narrative change would not only do us, but those who surround it more empathetic to life that it really lives (well, everyone except Agnes of Christine Baranski). Bertha has never been perfect, but she is not a doormat either, and that makes her a Pankhurst Emmeline perfect. Remove the husband and also remove the patriarchy.
Do I think Bertha will go in the direction of Winnifred banks Mary Poppins? No. But season 4 will have to move over time after the final of season 3 almost sewn all the existing narrative threads, and what better way to do so with a place of avant-garde progress?
