Bertha’s big dinner in Newport | The Gilded Age Season 2

Mrs. Winterton has been conspiring with several Russell staffers to ruin Bertha’s big dinner, including hired chef Mr. Schneider and footman Peter Burns. Mrs. Russell is distracted trying to wingman the duke with her daughter Gladys, but Watson comes to the rescue. The eagle-eyed valet catches Schneider going all Phantom Thread on a sauce pot and assertively cancels the first course before it reaches the table, and he tips off Church about Peter’s treason, banishing the young servant from the dining room before a plate could deviously end up in the royal’s lap. Watson, you’re a G. All in all, the duke’s dinner is a triumph, much to Mrs. Winterton’s vexation. (“I wouldn’t admit it if they tore my fingernails off to make me.”)