Downton Abbey Series Two "Official Thread"

[P-Jay]

Honestly, people actually like this? (OK, nearly 10m people do)

I have to watch it, under extreme pressure from SWMBO and I find it to be one of the most boring things ever to slowly move around on my screen.

FFS, couldn't they include the odd explosion or some female same-sex loving between one of the staff and one of the family for those of us with an attention span of a 9 year old brought up on Jerry Bruckheimer films?

I've taken to watching old episodes of total wipeout on laptop with headphones whilst the GF day dreams about cook putting to much salt in the porrage or whatever they seem to have major dramas about.

[Y282]

as i was saying before big al chicken winged me out of the other thread...


what a load of fking bks. tried five minutes of it, it's the most broadly drawn, patronising st i've ever experienced. and i've sat through health and safety lectures.


it is to eastenders what the daily mail is to the sun.

Edited by Y282 on Saturday 24th September 17:52

[Melvin Udall]

Burn the witch!

(I like it!)

[Jem0911]

Roll on Sunday.
Thankfully we don't all like the same things.

[otherman]

I didn't see season 1 but I watched it last sunday. The storylines seem OK, but the production is way short of what I expected. The actors sound like they saw their lines for the first time half an hour before the shoot (eg, stopping mid sentence with a pause before someone 'interrupts') and the trench scenes are odd. It looks like they were trying for gritty realism but then you have an officer staggering accross no-mans land carrying a wounded soldier, with just a smudge of dirt on his face and a perfectly ironed shirt.

Or is the whole thing supposed to be tongue-in-cheek?

[Melvin Udall]

I think you should watch season 1 first to knowmwho is who, and what a they were in the first season.

[Y282]

Melvin Udall said:

I think you should watch season 1 first to knowmwho is who, and what a they were in the first season.

i don't know what episode i just saw, but there seemed no shortage of s in it, on both sides of the camera.

[Halb]

Melvin Udall said:

I think you should watch season 1 first to knowmwho is who, and what a they were in the first season.

Not watched the first episode of series two yet, but series one was easily the best new drama on telly last year. Maggie whatsit deserves an award.

[Jem0911]

For the fans.
On now.

[5705]

It's all becoming a bit "Lark Rise to Candlefart." The edge that series 1 had is almost gone and there's now too much bonhomie and it's getting rather predictable.

Even the incidental music is getting twee, FFS!