I am so excited for The golden age Season 4 that I can’t stop talking about that since the end of season 3, which I have not finished yet. The big changes are on the horizon of Bertha (Carrie Coon) with George (Morgan Spector) potentially leaving her forever, while Gladys (Taissa Farmiga) is pregnant after marrying Buckingham’s Duke.
Until now, we have focused on what the recent past for Bertha’s future means. After George’s brief dance with death, he admits that he no longer knows if he is in love with his wife, going drastically before she has the opportunity to collect her thoughts. Together with Gladys’s pregnancy, he essentially has his dream, old monetary life without a soul in the world to share if with.
But what happens if the old money in progress in front of the new battle of money is the wrong thing to focus on? Two separate rivals are on the way to enlivening the fire between Bertha and the life he wants, but I think it is the life that could accidentally land the greatest attention (Spoiler: it involves feminism).
Carrie Coon believes that Bertha could have a ‘feminist awakening’ in season 4 of the golden age, and I agree
Speaking at the deadline, Coon explained: “One of the things that happens when Bertha and Gladys come together at the end of the season is [Bertha]You will have to reflect on what you have done, although it is successful, it is not exempt from complications. It was not without cost.
“That kind of nascent feminist awakening would be a really interesting search for her, whether marriage lasts or not. […] I think it is not far from the path of that exploration to understand exactly what happened. We catch it in the midst of trying to process that moment. “
Inadvertently, I think it has been given in the nail here. The previous seasons of the HBO Max program have been proud of not being similar to the last one, and seeing Bertha slide in the full sister Sufragist mode would be such a cunning way to achieve change and personal redemption.
As for the time, we are also right. The female suffrage in the United States clung at the end of the 19th and early twentieth century, with the demand for such generous interests already in the 1840s. The first official movements joined in 1869, and we are only only a few years after that.
With television magic The golden age Season 4 could easily return with a time jump, or maybe Bertha immerses himself in the basic beginnings of female suffrage to get away from his own problems.
Personally, I think that the narrative switch would do not only us, but to those who surround it more empathic with the life that is really living (well, all except the agnes of Christine Baranski). Bertha has never been perfect, but she is not a pelopudo either, and that makes her a perfect type of Pankhurst Emmeline. Pull the husband and knock down the patriarchy as well.
Will I think Bertha will follow the path of Winnifred banks in Mary Poppins? No. But season 4 will need to move with the times after the end of season 3 almost sewed all existing narrative threads, and what better way to do it than with a place of progress in the future?
