I generously gave this a 5 mostly because the story is fairly good. The acting is not. There's some bright spots in the acting but otherwise it's much like watching a middle school play.
There's problems in the casting which I'm sure relate to Hollywood's need to be diverse. In this period, there's a lot of unlikely relationships and job positions in this show. The gilded age is a period where eugenics is highly popular due to much prejudice and not just to people of color. (I'd suggest "Under a Gilded Moon" for a fiction read more realistic for the period.)
The dialog is weak and for people in this gilded class, not as familiar with each other as in here. Combine that with lapses into 20th/21st century language and it's uneven.
Fix these things & it might end up a franchise for a few seasons.
There's problems in the casting which I'm sure relate to Hollywood's need to be diverse. In this period, there's a lot of unlikely relationships and job positions in this show. The gilded age is a period where eugenics is highly popular due to much prejudice and not just to people of color. (I'd suggest "Under a Gilded Moon" for a fiction read more realistic for the period.)
The dialog is weak and for people in this gilded class, not as familiar with each other as in here. Combine that with lapses into 20th/21st century language and it's uneven.
Fix these things & it might end up a franchise for a few seasons.