New season of period drama 'The Gilded Age' works by undermining its strongest characters

This season, "The Gilded Age" — HBO’s drama about the boom years of the 1880s in New York City — moves past its original status as a thinly Americanized version of Downton Abbey. It’s pulls that off by dealing challenges to two of its most powerful characters.

We get the latest from NPR TV critic Eric Deggans.