Arthur_Parker
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Downton Abbey ITV1 promoNew British thing, starts in 1912, they reran the first series (7 episodes) over the weekend as it got such a massive critical reception. Series 2 planned, I have watched the first four so far with the Mrs and it's really excellent, best thing on TV for ages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_AbbeyDownton Abbey placed tenth on the Top 10 TV programmes of 2010, and came second in the Top 10 TV dramas of 2010 list, beaten only by Doctor Who. It came first in the Top 10 new drama category
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Downton Abbey will be broadcast on PBS in the US, where it will air in January 2011 as part of the 40th season of Masterpiece, and will be broadcast as a six episode series.
In Australia it will air in 2011 on the Seven Network
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Tarami
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Costume drama!  Thanks, will watch. |
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Tarami
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Watched two episodes, really great. Recommended. You Brits sure know your way around period drama.
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Just watched the first episode. Good stuff.
EDIT: Just finished episode seven. Very good stuff indeed. I'll be looking forward to the second series.
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The duchess' and Matthew's mother's ongoing battle of wits is  |
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Lord Grantham: "To think Taylor’s gone off to run a tea shop. I cannot feel it will make for a very restful retirement, can you?"
Carson: "I would rather be put to death, my lord."
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Samwise
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Necro!
Am watching this and enjoying it MUCH more than I thought I would. I was hooked about halfway through the first episode.
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Arthur_Parker
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Series 2 has been pretty good so far.
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Numtini
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Unfortunately, we don't series two in the states until sometime next year.
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bummer. its such a good show.
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pxib
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 RISE PBS is replaying the entire first series at the beginning of the year (check your local listings), and putting up a few episodes on their website for online viewing. Then the second series starts playing in January or February (again, check your local listings). If you've missed it, check it out. End-of-their-era Edwardians at their BBC best.
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If you've missed it, check it out. End-of-their-era Edwardians at their BBC best.
Er, it was commissioned by ITV not the BBC. |
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I am suitably both informed and chastened.
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Numtini
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It's on netflix and amazon streaming as well.=
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Numtini
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For those who aren't regular watchers of Masterpiece, the second season starts in the US next Sunday.
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For those who aren't regular watchers of Masterpiece, the second season starts in the US next Sunday.
You can watch episodes of S2 on PBS.org after it airs as well. |
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Maggie Smith may get more zingers out of this than Kate Hepburn got in The Lion in Winter.
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Maggie Smith may get more zingers out of this than Kate Hepburn got in The Lion in Winter.
The interaction between her and Mrs. Crowley is one of the best parts of the show. This is definitely one of the best things I have watched in a while. |
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Rasix
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Yikes. That may have been the most depressing episode of TV I've never seen. Next episode looks to more of the same. War is hell.
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Yikes. That may have been the most depressing episode of TV I've never seen. Next episode looks to more of the same. War is hell.
Yes, quickly losing interest. This aspect of the story has been told 1000 times; Downton pre-war was a glipse at something different. |
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The war will certainly be over in the next episode going by events mentioned in this last one they are at most six months or do from the end of it.
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Rasix
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I'm a little disappointed with their decision to...
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fuser
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Watched the whole two seasons over a week after seeing a random episode on PBS. The show has an amazing first season with a massive cast, costumes, really great character development, and my god that theme.
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Rasix
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This last episode was horrid. Chalk full of soap opera-y crap.
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First season was quality TV, the kind of which is seldom in witness. As, previous posts specify, the repartee between Crowley's mother and Elder Lady Grantham is done well, as are the costumes and the whole eloi v. morlock theme (LOLed when H.G. Wells was invoked by Lady Grantham…)…
…I've only watched 1st episode of 2nd season, but the most of the story lines have went from sublime to simply absurd. Though to be fair, some are rooted in the last pair of episodes in the 1st season.
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So, is no one watching this? I can't be the only one. Am I finally too old for my peers?
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I've seen all three seasons already.
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Venkman
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Here too. Really enjoying it. Just for some reason not much to talk about I guess? Like any number of good quality but discontroversial shows maybe?
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Numtini
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Same here, we've had it with PBS. I liked it in general and was pleasantly surprised by Shirley McClain who I was rather dreading. It's weird seeing what we watched a while back treated as current.
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This season isn't terrible so far. Matthew is a bit of a bitch, and the legal aspects of their primarily issue bothered my wife.
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I'll keep watching, although knowledge of issues outside of the show means that this season will likely end in an unsatisfactory way.
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Second season lost me because it became soapy and dumb almost from moment one. Haven't felt the need to tune back in.
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Second season lost me because it became soapy and dumb almost from moment one. Haven't felt the need to tune back in.
I've heard that from other folks too, so will ask what I did them: at what point did this historical soap become too soapy? I went into it figuring it was going to be like a more tolerable General Hospital being set 100 years ago. Maybe it was low expectations  I agree with Rasix though. Matthew was being a bitch. I'll keep watching, although knowledge of issues outside of the show means that this season will likely end in an unsatisfactory way.
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I'll keep watching, although knowledge of issues outside of the show means that this season will likely end in an unsatisfactory way.
What do you mean? Like RL actor drama? Yep, like it always is. Be thankful you don't have a sister-in-law that reads TV gossip columns. |
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The thing that really annoyed me at the start of season 2 was the Bates storyline. They've set up this interesting character and this great political struggle inside the downstairs half of the cast, and then we get this whole story that is one step away from giving him an evil twin--that pulls him out of this great little world they spent a whole season building up.
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