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Downton Abbey. I'm talking funny!

NezerNezer Registered User regular
edited January 2012 in Debate and/or Discourse
Good Day my Lords and Ladies. Does anyone, including Brits, find themselves speaking like turn of the century, Edwardian/post-Victorian aristocrats (and Butlers, go Carson!) after watching too much Downton Abbey?

Also, I would like a Downton Abbey board game, in which you have to complete chores around the house and serve fancy dinners whilst spreading gossip. Sort of like Clue, but with fireplace sweeping instead of murder.

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  • themightypuckthemightypuck MontanaRegistered User regular
    I like the show. It's a bit slow moving but the pre-ww1 setting is awesome.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    I just finished the first series. Now i'm in that weird place where I have to avoid series 2 spoilers.

  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    If you like Downton Abbey, I'd suggest watching this...

    http://www.pbs.org/manorhouse/

  • mrt144mrt144 King of the Numbernames Registered User regular
    2nd season premiere was fucking insane.

  • themightypuckthemightypuck MontanaRegistered User regular
    I need to finish off season 1 and see if I can catch the premiere online before tomorrow night.

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  • Mike DangerMike Danger "Diane..." a place both wonderful and strangeRegistered User regular
    Esh wrote:
    If you like Downton Abbey, I'd suggest watching this...

    http://www.pbs.org/manorhouse/

    I have been trying to remember the name of this show for the longest time. Thanks, Esh.

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    Mike Danger wrote:
    Esh wrote:
    If you like Downton Abbey, I'd suggest watching this...

    http://www.pbs.org/manorhouse/

    I have been trying to remember the name of this show for the longest time. Thanks, Esh.

    There's a series of different eras. I've seen Colonial House too. Pretty good as well.

  • themightypuckthemightypuck MontanaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2012
    I'm caught up. There still isn't much of a plot other than getting X together with Y to save the manor. This is all about the characters. I'm partial to the Earl of Grantham and his butler, Carson. The villains are a bit moustache twirly and some of the writing is daytime soap quality but the actors and setting very much make up for it.

    Season One is on Netflix streaming (7eps) and the Season Two Premiere is streaming from the PBS website for a limited time so anyone with Netflix and 9 hours to kill can bang this baby out in time for tonight's s2e2 :)

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  • NezerNezer Registered User regular
    I heard rumblings that some people were disenchanted with season 2 so far. I beg to differ. I would say it's even better, even if some of the interpersonal tension between the staff has slackened.

  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    I don't know how far the show is in the US, so I won't go into specifics, but season 2 really annoyed me personally.
    If you're going to talk about the horrors of war, especially world war 1, then you should have the courage to REALLY talk about it. The human cost of WW1 was insanely awful. If you're going to set a show right before WW1, and make it about the changing society fueled in large part by the horrors of the war, then you should do some freaking planning about what you're going to say when you finally get to the war. Instead the dying soldiers are recognizable because they're slightly pale and cough, and then the series can never decide if it just wants to be the fun jaunt of season 1, or a tragic romance, or about a soldier returning from war. And it ends up failing to do any of those stories justice. Season 1 was mostly lighthearted, so when characters did derpy things you didn't mind so much (hello I'm the evil gay footman!), but as a drama it drives me up the wall.

    Also, this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5dMlXentLw

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  • NezerNezer Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Careful, mate. You spoil my Downton Abbey and I'm likely to cut someone, maybe you. I'm one episode into season two; I've only just seen the 2 hour premiere in which
    the first World War! has broken out! Okay, maybe that's not a spoiler? That War really happened, right?
    I think the series may be broken up differently here. It's easily my favorite British production since Red Riding. The last decade has been very kind to the BBC. I expect more quality programming to come -if the globe doesn't dip into recession and WWIII breaks out.

    Also, "like" to the video!

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  • RamiRami Registered User regular
    The biggest shock for me about Downton Abbey was that it was an ITV thing. Took me a while to come to terms with it not being a BBC production.

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