Downton Abbey

with Elizabeth McGovern, Joanne Froggatt, Hugh Bonneville and Jim Carter
in Movies, TV & Theater, History
on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 * * * * *

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Downton Abbey with actors Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Jim Carter and Joanne Froggatt

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Upstairs Downstairs
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    1. cieobt2  01/07/2013 04:59 PM Report

      If I am not as taken as others are by Downton Abbey why did I hang around the TV last night, baking my favorite buscuits with real butter and rasberry jam and brewing my favorite hazelnut flavored coffee to catch the new season's first episode? 'Course I did the same thing years back on Monday nights after work to--watch Murphy Brown.

    2. Shrdlu42  12/13/2012 06:23 PM Report

      I was never an Upstairs, Downstairs fan, and I thought the revival was deadly dull. (So did the viewers. It's not being renewed).

      Comparing Downton Abbey to Dallas, etc., is like comparing I, Claudius to North and South. Downton has fine acting, superb sets, great costumes, historical accuracy and detail, plots based on real life, intelligent and eloquent dialog. What did those other shows have? "Cat fights, dream sequences" that lasted a full year, cat fights, flying saucers, cat fights, dialog an infant could improve on, cat fights, endless cliches, and (in case I forgot to mention it) cat fights.

    3. Gelles  12/13/2012 07:44 AM Report

      PBS' BBC' English evening soap opera imports have long helped the American audience relieve their frustration in real life over political events. And Charlie Rose's attention to these operas for what they are, and for their celebrity values, is one more reward TV offers us virtually for free.

      Then there is this archive, where a minute portion of that audience finds a place to extend their delight even further.

      So rational complaint is not called for. Yet, because the archive is always a day or more out of sync, and because it has no infinite edit capability like the one that supports Amazon' forums, complain is what I usually do.

      It is already December 13. At midnight between the 12th and 13th, Charlie Rose talked with the Tapper, American author of "The Outpost" (about the glory and hell of war); Ian McEwan English novelist and distinguished observer and modern philosopher of modern history in the making; and Orenstein, American political pundit whose new book I already want to read.

      It is tonight's show I really found stunning, and it is one day early to say so.

      So I will leave these words here for now. And tomorrow I can go to the Amazon forums to say what I must or war and sacrifice, art and understanding, and politics as usual. Three topics Charlie wove together for a memorable evening of reflective thought. These words will link-able to tomorrow's, and I can get to sleep. Thank you CR, PBS, and TV. If only we could harvest and harness the intellectual purpose inside soap opera and commentary surrounding us, and solve the problems at hand. If only. And, why not?

    4. SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/12/2012 09:09 PM Report

      Yes Charlie, a soap opera but . . .

      "PBS presents Manor House, a gripping new series which brings class to reality television. Nineteen volunteers from the modern world find that life of a grand country house in the early 20th century is plagued by all-too familiar themes: money, power and position."

      For the hardcore PBSer not BSer.

      http://www.pbs.org/manorhouse/theproject/making.html

    5. SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/12/2012 08:59 PM Report

      Elizabeth McGovern--red lips, alabaster skin, lite blue eyes (all right hazel)--nothing more American than that.

      http://images.theage.com.au/2011/06/14/2427763/elizabeth_mcgovern_729-420x0.jpg

      Loved her in "She's Having A Baby".

      http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9g2456Lmk1re62jqo1_250.gif

    6. REMant  12/12/2012 11:47 AM Report

      Downton Abbey is in the Dallas, Dynasty, and Love Boat class. Successful, yes, but hardly mentionable in the same breath as those other BBC and ITV productions. It is not even as good as the Upstairs, Downstairs revival, falling short in everything from script to casting to production values. That said it affords a certain soapish prurience and Michelle Dockery makes for a very handsome aristocrat, in the Linda Evans mold, and the only attraction I find. There were eight episodes on the DVD already released and there's supposed to be a Christmas special as last year, so nine total. For those who simply must know what happens: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606375/episodes?season=3