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Downton Abbey - I'm hooked

AmateisGal

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The official trailer is out. I can't stop watching it...looks SO, SO GOOD.

[video=youtube;Kvw7J26V68U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvw7J26V68U&feature=share&list=PL034D0DA08DA56D77[/video]
 

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Great seeing Dame Shirley in it all the way from the US of A..!! (well, she 'should' be a Dame!). Can't wait for the next series (and HBO's Boardwalks coming too!!).
 
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The official trailer is out. I can't stop watching it...looks SO, SO GOOD.[video=youtube;Kvw7J26V68U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvw7J26V68U&feature=share&list=PL034D0DA08DA56D77[/video]
Thank you! I can't wait until January. I wonder how far they'll take the show - time wise? It's one of the most beautifully done shows ever.
 

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I'll be watching, tho I have to admit, I do cringe with embarrassment on a regular basis when I see some of the "that could never happen" situations they tend to throw up on the screen.
 

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From what I've heard, this season is "back on track" and will be much more like the first season. They are slowing the pacing quite a bit and not rushing through as they did with WW1 in the second season.
 

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Even though I'm in the U.S., I was able to watch the first episode of Downton Abbey on ITV.com thanks to a nifty program called Tunnelbear. It's perfectly legal - no pirating involved!

And I was quite thrilled with the first episode - wonderful!
 

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I know a lot of people rather like 'Downton Abbey', but I still can't watch it without thinking it's a comedy. Everything about it annoys me.

There are two opposite ends of the British drama spectrum that both irritate me:
1) Downton Abbey type dramas - the 'aren't us posh-people frightfully nice to our servants' bilge
2) The written by Jimmy McGovern 'aren't us poor working-class northerners forced to be so tough by our ****py lives' worthier-than-thou nonsense.

Mind you - I don't like most of the stuff inbetween, either.
 

Paul Roerich

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I know a lot of people rather like 'Downton Abbey', but I still can't watch it without thinking it's a comedy. Everything about it annoys me.

There are two opposite ends of the British drama spectrum that both irritate me:
1) Downton Abbey type dramas - the 'aren't us posh-people frightfully nice to our servants' bilge
2) The written by Jimmy McGovern 'aren't us poor working-class northerners forced to be so tough by our ****py lives' worthier-than-thou nonsense.

Mind you - I don't like most of the stuff inbetween, either.


Hence the satire I posted above.
 

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