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‘The Gilded Age’ Season 2 review: The house of dearth

Cynthia Nixon, left, and Christine Baranski in Season 2 of "The Gilded Age."

The setting for HBO’s “The Gilded Age” is 1880s New York, nearly half a century before zippers would appear on garments. And yet there they are, running up the backs of women’s gowns in Season 2, suggesting the show’s budget is no match for the illusion it so desperately hopes to peddle.

You know it’s bad when a series preoccupied with opulence can’t even deliver when it comes to the costumes.

Let’s look at it another way. Last week, the New York Times about parking lots where full-time workers live out of

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