This interview contains spoilers for the Season 3 finale of “The Gilded Age,” now streaming on HBO Max. Bertha Russell should be on the top of the world. As “The Gilded Age” ends its third season, Bertha (Carrie Coon) has pulled off yet another social triumph,

"What's at play there is somebody who's really in an existential crisis," Spector says of George in the season finale.

At the end of Episode 7 of The Gilded Age, George Russell ( Morgan Spector) was shot by gunman posing as a messenger. In his office, the man knocked on the door and said he had a delivery for the robber baron before firing off multiple shots into the room, one of which seemed to have hit George.