This piece spoils the Season 3 finale of The Gilded Age. Thanks to Dr. William Kirkland (Jordan Donica), Morgan Spector’s railroad magnate George Russell survived an absolute shocker of a gunshot wound after a delivery man showed up at his work to attempt to kill him.

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

Fellowes quoted his own creation, Downton Abbey ‘s formidable Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith), who told her son that their set doesn’t divorce. Rather, she says, “In that case, the couple are unable to see as much of each other as they would like.”