Downton Abbey meets Clue at a Gilded Age mansion—minus the dowager's permission to ask questions.
It's July 1895 and the New York elite have decamped to Newport, Rhode Island for a summer of balls, garden parties, and yacht races. Covering these events for the women's pages of the Newport Observer is Emma Vanderbilt-Cross, a fearless twenty-one-year-old writer with family ties to the wealthy Vanderbilt family.
Costume
The Breakers location and 1895 summer whites are the real stars.
Production
Actual Vanderbilt mansion gives authentic Newport Gilded Age atmosphere.
Writing
Protagonist's newspaper career feels surprisingly modern for period piece.
Director
Terry Ingram
Alissa Skovbye
Emma Vanderbilt-Cross
Danny Griffin
Jesse Whyte
Nathan Witte
Derrick
James Drew Dean
Brady Cross
Gillian Barber
Nanny O'Neal
Amira Anderson
Harriet Rice
Cesare Scarpone
Goddard
Katherine Evans
Adelaide
Mark Humphrey
Cornelius
Ava Telek
Gertrude
April Telek
Aunt Alice
John Prowse
Mason
Geoff Gustafson
Milford
David Beairsto
Rupert
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