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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

[serriadh]

I agree. The miscarriage itself and aftermath weren't funny, but the entirely obvious setup (and even before the evil lurking soap's close-up, we were fairly convinced she'd lose the baby and it was only a question of when/how and how sensitively they managed that storyline).

I felt the same way about Bates being tripped and falling face down in the gravel. Obviously it's not funny in a HAHA HE DONE FALLED OVER HAHA HE USES A STICK sort of way, but the OTT villainy of the evil!staff and the ever so 'umble nature of the Bates did get self-parodic.