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[tree_and_leaf]

Article about Downton Abbey, from the Grauniad. I invariably find Tanya Gold slightly irritating* (and how she found the miscarriage scene funny beats me, though I suspect it's sloppy writing/ editing - there's another paragraph towards the end that doesn't seem to make sense), but there's some interesting snippets with Julian Fellowes, Hugh Bonneville, and others from the cast, as well as the Caernarvons, and Alastair Bruce, the historical adviser, who is "still getting over Braveheart.


* I find her irritating here despite the fact that I'd agree that Downton is at times a very sanitised portrait of the 'big house.'

Comments

[antisoppist]

If you are O'Brien, it is probably more satisfying to be the horrified mastermind unable to halt your dastardly plot than to be merely untidy.

[tree_and_leaf]

I could believe that!

I loved Downton, but in some ways it's probably best considered as a very well acted pantomime (The soap's behind you!)