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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

[liadnan]

Rather shocked to find myself rather more convinced by AN Wilson in the Mail. Really.

[legionseagle]

I can actually see what she means about the miscarriage scene; not that there's anything inherently amusing about the situation but the desperately over the top way it was telegraphed in advance including

CLOSE-UP. Soap lurks in sinister way under bath.
CLOSE-UP Countess stands up in bath.

CUT TO: Expression of Dawning Realisation and Horror (TM) on O'Brien's face.

OBRIEN: No, m'lady. Don't -

[OFFSCREEN] Shriek. Thud.

really is so very, very self-parodic.