Warning: SPOILERS For The Gilded Age Season 3Jack Trotter's (Ben Ahlers) quest for the American Dream separates The Gilded Age from Downton Abbey. Both of creator Julian Fellowes' fashionable humanities dramas woody with wealth, class, and privilege. However, Fellowes delineates the profound differences betwixt The Gilded Age's aboriginal 19th-century America and Downton Abbey's England successful the aboriginal 20th century.