Category Archives: Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey: Carry on Upstairs, Downstairs
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Downton Abbey: Playing doctors and nurses
The current series of Downton Abbey has rather too much trauma and not enough fun Continue reading
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Downton Abbey: soothing Sunday wallpaper telly
I was talking to my mum on the phone recently and she was extolling the virtues of Downton Abbey. She feels some sense of ownership, perhaps because she lives near Highclere Castle, where it’s filmed. Also she also somehow (she’s … Continue reading
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Downton Abbey: Maggie may
As the talented Julian (Gosford Park) Fellowes obviously knows well, the British pre WW1 country house, complete with rigid crinolines, even more rigid class hierarchies, housemaids on their knees, hugely complicated sexual/social dynamics, stiff upper lips and Maggie Smith as … Continue reading
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