I wanna turn into one of those people with a tumblr full of tint-shifted anigifs from DOWNTON ABBEY

lol j/k

good show tho!

ps i had no idea what 'ship' meant in this context until yesterday

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/

ugh this show

i look forward to it every week

but ugh this show

i complained about mad men getting less workplacey and more soapy every week, and i watched the hell out of that

Maggie Smith breezes through this with such ease it made me chuckle at times

first series was really great. second series is ridiculously over plotted. like five cast off or forgotten about plots per episode. i think the first covered a year or so, the second has covered around five years in the first few eps.

ha i keep meaning to start this thread

so, i HATE this show, but i also LOVE this show. i feel like i need to be in a support group.

new season kinda sucks though

this thread is going to be deserted in january isn't it

i didnt realize it was so popular in the UK, feels kind of like a show geared to american anglophiles

"gosford park without the wit, irony, politics, or murder"

julian fellowes turning out to be a tory was disappoint, but also like duh

so far this season is me yelling at the tv for 60 minutes and then one week later obsessively checking sidereel while i wait for someone to upload it

wait how are you all watching this already

http://www.sidereel.com/downton_abbey

i'm not watching s2 yet!

maybe waiting a week between episodes will dry it out a little bit.

yeah it might be better if i were just watching em all in a row? on the other hand theyre reallllly stretching out some of the storylines, characters are doing way out-of-character stuff, and stuff that seemed unbelievable is even MORE unbelievable when it hasnt changed like 6 years later or whatever

sybil is still a serious babe though

did u know 'lady mary' and 'matthew' were in a versh of turn of the screw together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of7bcWKK0kg

This show's timeline is more fucked than Doctor Who's.

Next season needs Matthew to go all Phantom of the Opera and start living in a cave under the house.

this thread is going to be deserted in january isn't it

christmas episode

i didnt realize it was so popular in the UK, feels kind of like a show geared to american anglophiles

― max, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 00:40 (2 months ago) Permalink

it isn't that popular in the uk though is it? like the viewerships are presumably fine, but it's not all over the papers/"what everyone is talking about". i don't know anyone who watches it except americans and my mum.

i thought i read somewhere it was like the #1 show in britain?

well, it's mainstream tv, and it's being renewed, so in that sense it's doing well for expensive drama, but it's not a ratings sensation. last year's figures: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/table/2010/dec/21/top-tv-shows-2010. there's a bunch of other dramas that get very nearly as many viewers.

i guess i have a specific definition of "popular" in mind here anyway. i haven't actually seen it (and like i say, i've only met one real person who claims to like it), so i'm guessing here, but presumably, if the anglophilia angle is lost and you and you're used to that kind of uk serial drama writing, all you've got left is a soap opera.

so i'm talking about guardian/twitter popular, not # of viewers popular

part of the problem is perhaps that itv is kind of a joke in the uk, at least among the kind of people who have important blogs. i think i actually first heard about downton abbey on gawker, and it reminded me of when american sites link to the daily mail. not mentioning daily mail (or itv) in the first 5 words is burying the lede.

there's also the julian fellowes thing, for the 0.01% of the population/100% of newspaper editors who know who he is

lol "no one I know voted for Nixon"

so i'm talking about guardian/twitter popular, not # of viewers popular

yeah I think I've seen the 'loved by the public ignored by the critics' line about it in The Sun or somewhere, because of course the so-called 'real' media are out of touch with the people. That said, none of my Sun-buying working class family watch it or know anyone who watches it either, so god knows who does.

my parents watch it, apparently

At my evening class there is a late-40s woman whose standard conversational opener during the coffee break is "ohmygod did you SEE Downton Abbey this week?!" and some 60+ women who always join in with the Downton chat while the 20-somethings all look completely blank. So it's kind of weird to see that it has a youngish viewing demographic in the US (at least, going by ILX posts).

im 30 + most of my female friends watch it (im in london)

this show is really popular with vogue editors fwiw

this show is fine. it's fun to hate on the really awful characters. didn't know the second season had started in the US yet.

Downton is very popular in my art school office in SF, but maybe this is not the real America.

when is this on dvd?
it is kind of a stupid show in general, but i like it anyway!
i like how someone "tenders their resignation" in like every episode. delightful!

when is the second season on DVD i mean

It Is, already.

As is the Christmas ep.

not in the US yet. looked it up, comes out next month.

these crazy sisters are so mean to each other!

About to finish the first season on Netflix with my sister. I'm 22 she's 20. In America. #datapoints

My wife and I spent two days of our vacation last week watching both seasons and the Christmas special. The second season is definitely soapier but still pretty good. I had figured the xmas ep would just be a sop to keep people interested for season 3 but it wraps up a lot of the loose ends left in season 2.

Oh, and for the survey: early-40's, American. And nobody else we know watches this.

so, i HATE this show, but i also LOVE this show

i dont really LOVE it but it is super easy to watch, like i finished a whole season in two days.

bates is such a boring character tho, i mean theyre all kinda boring but bates is the boringest.

max i'm gonna share your downton abbey post with my gf and she's gonna get mad at both of us

my sisters both really like this show and they tend to like really shitty boring things

only person i've heard about this show from irl is my mom; i am american but she is english. she hasn't actually seen it tho. if she does i predict she'll be like "oh it's such garbage" but watch it every week w/ great joy and comfort; she loves watching people eat cold toast.

i don't really have any idea what it is though. my predictions are based entirely on its being called "downton abbey".

its 'a less good gosford park'

like if youve seen gosford park, imagine a version made for british tv that looks and sounds is written like british tv, and then youve got it

yeah that's what i figured. i think she's lost count of how many times she's seen gosford park.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/4c9a0549174e21b161429fbad1d2a406/tumblr_mfyfxfBJAZ1r8z0vro1_500.jpg

;_;

i'm *still* mourning

Seriously. About the 100th time I said that I couldn't believe it, Jeff was like, "Can you stop thinking about that show now?" Answer: no, I cannot.

this show had already been declining pretty hard but i really cannot see it recovering from its losses this season

Dan Stevens said ages ago he wasn't coming back for season 4.

As soon as the ep ended I searched "Is Matthew really dead" and found a bazillion articles from last year about Dan Stevens. The extent to which I've managed to live in a Downton Abbey spoiler-proof bubble shocks me.

still hope they all turn out to be fascist sympathizers

Surprised Oswald Mosley hasn't turned up yet.

pretty glad i bailed on this tbh

- dan stevens

still hope they all turn out to be fascist sympathizers

― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:12 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

man THIS i would tune back in for

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00663/news-graphics-2008-_663665a.jpg

new love interest for lady mary?

i liked this season much more than last season and wasn't nearly as much a sybil or matthew fan as many but yeah i think i'm ready to cut bait, there's just clearly no plan in place here. is this the first case of american success fucking w/ the british 'know when enough is enough' tv model?

Dunno if this has been pointed out, and I've only watched season 1, but Cora is def channeling some Tom Skerritt.. the smarmy, patronising ass he plays in Contact. Can't disassociate the two now. wtf

wait did the new season of this start already?? my sister said it did, but i have seen NO tint-shifted anigifs of it on my tumblr dashboard

show jumped the shark

totally gutted of all good characters

the show hasnt been good since the first season

nah second season was great, third was pretty bad but at least had some bangers... i couldn't even make it through the first episode of this one

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm no

(spoilers for new season) this is a fanciful nonsense show about servants who love toiling on behalf of the idle aristocracy, it has no business tackling a subject like violent sexual assault.

yeah i think thats it for me

absolutely no faith in the ability of this shows writers or creator to handle that plot line

gosford park is so amazing and sharp, wtf happened here

no altman

no cry

lol

this season is fucking preposterous

yeah i think thats it for me

― max, Tuesday, October 8, 2013 9:58 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Us too, pretty much. From "the best show to watch with your girlfriend" to "the worst show to watch with your girlfriend" in the space of a week.

how bad is it?

ya, this is almost making me wanna watch

well there is a ****SPOILER******

rape scene

which

actually isn't the worst thing about it. The worst thing about it is how stupid all the characters have become.

just watching this now. i agree the new season is horrible and out of its depth with the sensitive issues it is trying to tackle. also the plotline with braithwaite is a misogynistic, paranoid fantasy and i think it's weird that the show is so willing to paint her unambiguously as a villain.

this past season was better. although i spent the entire time hoping that mr bates would be hanged in prison again. what a christmas special that would have been.

i had avoided this season but bingewatched while i was sick over New Year

twasnt the best season granted, but i didnt hate it as much as i was expecting to

anyway: new season starts sunday :D

i didnt like braithwaite the first go-round, liked her about as much this time, happy to see her go (again)

plus she looks like an evil doll that came to life

the season starting sunday is the one I was just talking about (it ran in the UK over the fall).

can't believe no UKers talked about the final season (which I t0rr3nt3d finally to watch before it shows on PBS), but maybe only americans watch this show at this point.

Anyway 4 episodes in it's much better than the previous season.

new addict to this show!

:D

it's like taking over my thoughts on a daily basis i'm being rewired :D

*sings* a whoooole new woooorld

haha
hi surm!

:-) hi!

movie finished atop US b.o. ahead of AD ASTRA and LAST RAMBO

congrats, aristo worshippers

I saw the trailer in front of something and was agog that the plot of the film seemed like it was going to be “the KING is coming and we have to prepare a LUNCHEON”

That literally is the plot.

I’d call this movie a hot pile of garbage but it wasn’t even hot.

It was fine

Plotless and nearly witless

And what is wrong with these people that they don’t just take the day off when it’s offered to them? False consciousness the movie.