The behaviors are extreme and exciting, but the show itself isn’t bleak. It is bright and funny, colorful and surprising.

The director Petra Costa examines a rightward shift in her country by zeroing in on the rise of a televangelist.

Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for The Gilded Age Season 3.

Peggy mixes the staple clothing of 19th-century African American fashion, such as gingham and plaid, with the dramatic ...