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| Much like the Sex and The City reboot... | |
| Last Edit: ShowGoer 01:35 pm EDT 03/22/22 | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 01:33 pm EDT 03/22/22 | |
| In reply to: I liked it - dramedy 12:07 pm EDT 03/22/22 | |
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| ..."And Just Like That" – which was only officially renewed today, even though it was common knowledge they were planning to bring it back for another season before it even premiered – "The Gilded Age" was all but guaranteed a renewal, and most people who worked on it either knew or suspected it was coming before the first episode even aired. (Christine Baranski said in a podcast interview that was recorded after the first season wrapped but before it aired, "I just can't wait to do more", to which Julian Fellowes, stifling a laugh, replied "Let's not get ahead of ourselves".) It's one of the more expensive series ever, almost certainly second to only Game of Thrones in HBO history, so pricey that they still haven't released figures on just how much it cost (a price tag only exacerbated by shutting down production in March 2020 right as they were about to begin filming and keeping the cast on hold for an entire year before finally beginning filming in Feburary 2021). There was almost no way it wasn't coming back, unless both critics and audiences had hated it. So if you don't love the show, call it the fallacy of sunk costs, and if you do, then you can probably already safely start looking forward to the renewal for Season 3. (My guess is that, similar to Downton, it winds up at 4 or 5 seasons total.) And what a good month for Cynthia Nixon, assuming that she likes being in business with HBO. |
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| re: Much like the Sex and The City reboot... | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 10:14 pm EDT 03/23/22 | |
| In reply to: Much like the Sex and The City reboot... - ShowGoer 01:33 pm EDT 03/22/22 | |
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| I'm curious where you're getting the idea that this is one of the most expensive series ever made... second only to Game of Thrones (in HBO history)... I mean, maybe for HBO... but what about Rome or Westworld! But despite the expense of the period, it seems rather contained. It also is not by any stretch worth being SOOOO expensive if this is true. It's an enjoyable show, though not especially great or exciting or even fun... Game of Thrones looks like it would require 50x the budget to pull off than The Gilded Age. And this is certainly not the first show to have beautiful period costumes and sets and a big cast. But the cast doesn't have any big-salary stars (except maybe Baranski and Nixon, but I don't know if they come anywhere near what stars of huge hit shows get), but also so many of the big cast are underused and not in many scenes, you'd almost think they were trying to make sure to only pay them for as few days as they could get away with. It would be hard to imagine how or why this show costs more than The Great or Bridgerton... If it does, wow. |
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| re: Much like the Sex and The City reboot... | |
| Posted by: shaggyhair 09:41 pm EDT 03/22/22 | |
| In reply to: Much like the Sex and The City reboot... - ShowGoer 01:33 pm EDT 03/22/22 | |
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| I believe the show resumed shooting in the summer of 2020, one of the first film/TV projects in the greater NYC area to resume after lockdown, with significant safety precautions in place. I know people who worked in those scenes shot right after shooting resumed. | |
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| You could well be right… | |
| Last Edit: ShowGoer 12:11 am EDT 03/23/22 | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 12:09 am EDT 03/23/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Much like the Sex and The City reboot... - shaggyhair 09:41 pm EDT 03/22/22 | |
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| … and now that you mention it, I remember hearing similar things about the show resuming its filming earlier than I’d indicated. Honestly I grabbed my info from Wikipedia, where the text reads, “Following the move to HBO, the series was expected to begin filming in March 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic delayed production. Filming of the series began in Newport, Rhode Island in February 2021, at the mansions Chateau-sur-Mer, The Elms, and The Breakers.” They could be right after all, but more likely I should’ve taken Wiki with a huge grain of salt. So thanks for the reality check. (Either way, they likely didn’t have to pay the actors too much extra for the downtime… but whether for things such as rentals for pre-existing properties like the ones mentioned above, or maintenance for the set pieces that were built on sound stages – to say nothing of PPE, or testing, or a Covid compliance officer – almost every aspect of that shutdown, whether it lasted 3 months or 10 months, had to have added a pretty penny, and with no work getting accomplished in the meanwhile. But then that’s true of everything that had to take a pause in 2020. My understanding is that by TV standards, and as a sumptuous period piece, it just cost “Gilded Age” a little bit more.) |
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