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PeonForHer -> RE: "Downton Abbey" Returns! (1/17/2014 4:10:22 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SeekingTrinity
~FRing it~
Damn, I've seriously got to start watching this show! Everyone I've talked to speaks so highly of it and I love PBS in general as it is anyway
The show is bollocks, ST. Britain isn't like that now, and never was like it. The upper classes in Britain didn't give a toss about their servants because servants weren't 'people' in the same sense as they, the upper classes, were. (That goes to the essential reason why the phrase 'social class' was brought into being in the first place.) The show's writer, Julian Fellowes, is a Conservative member of the House of Lords and as farty-Brit-right-wing as you could possibly imagine. 'Downton Abbey' is a cosy dream of a fantasy bygone British society that only such a Tory could or would cream his pants about. It would *never* have been possible that an ex-chauffeur gets to marry one of the aristocratic family he once served, never mind an Irish one - and, perish the thought, an *Irish Republican* one. That's nothing but ludicrous propaganda, and Fellowes would certainly know that.
Still, it *is* quite entertaining. Not nearly as good as Upstairs, Downstairs . . . but all quite fun. I enjoy it, though I get hacked off when all the nice-looking women get poached by Hollywood.[;)] And, though I know it'll never happen, I want the ditsy-girly Grantham daughter to meet some hideous end. I can't stand her. Every time I see her smiling perfect-toothed prettily at her adoring 'Daddy' I want to put her in a side head lock and punch her repeatedly in the face.
That is all.
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