Downton Abbey Season 2, Episode 6. “Don’t be so defeatist – it’s very middle class.” What a productive two hours! Lots of making out, lots of marriages, Lavinia died, William went bankrupt — and, of course, Matthew can walk again. But many questions were left unanswered; namely, how many times can a sentence begin with “I’m afraid…” before I lose my mind? I’m afraid…not too many more. The Dowager Countess Never one to leave...
Downton Abbey Season 2, Episode 5. “I’m an American. I don’t share your English hatred of comfort.” Or, shall we say, of American football – I apologize to you all for the lateness of the post, but let’s not pretend that you were all watching the show on Sunday night anyway. You DVR-ed it and watched it yesterday, like every other normal American in this country. But we weren’t missing much. With the exception...
Downton Abbey Season 2, Episode 4. “I didn’t mean to offend you — I was simply paying you the compliment of being honest.” Don’t you hate that? It’s very a Midwestern thing, actually (I can hear my mother’s voice now when I asked how I looked before leaving for junior prom, to which I wore a white puffy dress: “You look like a white puffy marshmallow!”) – which confirms something that I have suspected...
Downton Abbey Season 2: Episode 3* “War breaks down barriers and when peacetime re-erects them, it’s easy to find oneself on the wrong side.” *Confused? Wasn’t last week’s post all titled Season 2, Episode 3? Why yes, indeed it was – because in my attempt to watch the show using legitimate means, I went on the Downton website and looked up the episode number, and then went to iTunes and downloaded it like a...
Like you (and this will probably be the first and only time that I ever say that, because I am generally acknowledged to be the weirdest person on Earth), I had never heard of Downton Abbey (not down-town, not down-tun, but down-tin) until about a month ago, when everybody started talking about it and in-the-know critics started bitching about how much its second season sucked. Having exhausted my stock of Jane Austen movies and...
Downton Abbey Season 2: Episode 2 “The world was in a dream before the war, but now it’s woken up and said goodbye to it. And so must we.” Truer words were never spoken! Except, perhaps, for all the words spoken by the Dowager Countess!* *As much as I’d love to assume all of you followed my step-by-step guide to getting caught up on the show, I’d also love to point out this handy...
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