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OK, you made me laugh at 1:00 AM...might be time to call it a night.
I even went back an edited it to make sure you understood my joke, but you got the original
anyway - thanks I am smiling at 1:30 so time for me to call it a night as well.
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This show is one of my guilty pleasures. When each season has been released on DVD I binge watch the whole season. Incredibly well done. Its also so hard to believe how much the world has changed in so short a time .
I feel the same as you.
I am now waiting the blu-ray for Season 4, shipped from US.
Were you shocked by the season 3 finale Toru?
careful...don't give anything away...we have some 'newbies' here.
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This show is one of my guilty pleasures. When each season has been released on DVD I binge watch the whole season. Incredibly well done. Its also so hard to believe how much the world has changed in so short a time .
I feel the same as you.
I am now waiting the blu-ray for Season 4, shipped from US.
Were you shocked by the season 3 finale Toru?
careful...don't give anything away...we have some 'newbies' here.
Don't run the risk of a traffic accident!
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<<Upstairs Downstairs>>
I'd like to see a sitcom based around a group of sex workers in a brothel. How's this for a title: Incall Outcall.
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<<Upstairs Downstairs>>
I'd like to see a sitcom based around a group of sex workers in a brothel. How's this for a title: Incall Outcall.
Or call it Downtown Abby
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<<Upstairs Downstairs>>
I'd like to see a sitcom based around a group of sex workers in a brothel. How's this for a title: Incall Outcall.
Or call it Downtown Abby
Or Downton Suzie
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<<Upstairs Downstairs>>
I'd like to see a sitcom based around a group of sex workers in a brothel. How's this for a title: Incall Outcall.
Or call it Downtown Abby
Or Downton Suzie
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Mad Men still good. On AMC, looking forward to Walking Dead and Breaking Bad spinoff (Better Call Sal, I think it's called).
All kidding aside on Downtown Abbey (since I'm a bit of an anglophile thanks to Beatles and Stones), I do watch from time to time. I agree it's like a remake of Upstairs/Downstairs, but a good remake. It updates for today's post-modern tastes.
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Mad Men still good. On AMC, looking forward to Walking Dead and Breaking Bad spinoff (Better Call Sal, I think it's called).
All kidding aside on Downtown Abbey (since I'm a bit of an anglophile thanks to Beatles and Stones), I do watch from time to time. I agree it's like a remake of Upstairs/Downstairs, but a good remake. It updates for today's post-modern tastes.
I actually like it better then U/D, but that may be my own post-modern attention span. Upstairs/Downstairs was big when I was in my early teens, and it seemed starchy, and stiff, although I guess the subject matter lent itself to that style.
But DA seems more fluid, and creative in how it weaves these different stories together. It might be a matter of aesthetics, and U/D was more old fashioned in its presentation.
DA hooked me in from the opening episode, where the camera is moving around and rotating onto different people and things in a single continuous shot..gorgeous cinematograghy. I also think Fellowes is a great writer, more inventive and witty. Less Masterpiece Theater and more Evelyn Waugh...
But I'm an American angophile (thanks to the Stones and Beatles, ditto nightskyman) so what do I know.
As for Men jumping the shark. I wouldn't say that quite yet, but it has become less of an urgency for me to watch the next season. I think that's the nature of any long-running series.
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Beast
Series 5 starts tonight, folks, with a 90-minute episode.
I once saw Jim Carter, aka Carson the butler, going about his business on a local high street in London. It was quite weird to see him dressed so casually in modern-day clothing with his hair all over the place!
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Series 5 starts tonight, folks, with a 90-minute episode.
I once saw Jim Carter, aka Carson the butler, going about his business on a local high street in London. It was quite weird to see him dressed so casually in modern-day clothing with his hair all over the place!
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Thanks to the Stones, I love anything British so I am fond this show for its British-ness. Plus the rich American wife adds a certain flair and dynamic of cross cultures. I like the young character Rose, she is always looking for a good time and getting into mischief. The intro to jazz music was particularly interesting to see fine British society's negative reaction from most, but not all. The world has changed!
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Series 5 starts tonight, folks, with a 90-minute episode.
I once saw Jim Carter, aka Carson the butler, going about his business on a local high street in London. It was quite weird to see him dressed so casually in modern-day clothing with his hair all over the place!
I'm expecting a review Beast..
Who all is in the UK here?
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Series 5 starts tonight, folks, with a 90-minute episode.
I once saw Jim Carter, aka Carson the butler, going about his business on a local high street in London. It was quite weird to see him dressed so casually in modern-day clothing with his hair all over the place!
I'm expecting a review Beast..
Who all is in the UK here?
Well, I can't give away any spoilers, can I?! But suffice it to say that last night's episode set the scene for various intrigues to come - either continuations of earlier stories or new twists - and also it seems to have got a bit more risqué.. There were quite a few laugh-aloud moments for me and Maggie Smith is, as always, an absolute triumph.
btw, anyone watching Happy Valley (highly recommended - see my earlier post) will recognize Downton's Miss O'Brien playing a very different role.
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Awesome. The actress who plays O'Brien is great. She conveys so much with these little gestures and expressions.
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Awesome. The actress who plays O'Brien is great. She conveys so much with these little gestures and expressions.
"good riddance" is my favorite of her phrase.
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Awesome. The actress who plays O'Brien is great. She conveys so much with these little gestures and expressions.
"good riddance" is my favorite of her phrase.
A phrase coined by our good man Shakespeare, no less. The longer version that later emerged is "good riddance to bad rubbish"!
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Well, I can't give away any spoilers, can I?! But suffice it to say that last night's episode set the scene for various intrigues to come - either continuations of earlier stories or new twists - and also it seems to have got a bit more risqué.. There were quite a few laugh-aloud moments for me and Maggie Smith is, as always, an absolute triumph.