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My mother and sister like it. I think it's boring.
You're lower class.
You are nobility.
based rapping granny
The only good characters were Matthew and the woman in your pic.
>*sigh* somehow, I lost our family's fortune again
>Egad Cora! I turned myself into a bankrupt; I'm bankrupt Crawley!
Really love seasons 1-2, they get at least yearly rewatches. Season 3 had its moments. Only ever watched seasons 4-5 once and to date have never seen season 6. Matthew and Mary are 99% of why I like the show. While I think Joanna Froggett is a great actress, I hated the Anna storyline after season 3.
The later seasons are worth watching if only for Tom to be the only person who can call Mary out on her c**t behavior and the way Mary keeps becoming more and more like a total c**t and how she has to spend the series finale fixing the shit she broke out of spite over Edith marrying a man of high birth and winning in life after years of being in Mary's shadow.
I hated Mary's storyline in seasons 4-5. Like they couldn't come up with any ideas other than just flinging men at her? Ugh. Lazy crap writing.
I have a penis so I’ve never seen it
not white enough.
I watched the first season, due to my gf insisting on it. I found it to be a rather bland show, with every "twist" being rather obvious. The viewer, if paying any attention, will be able to tell what is coming next. It works for women, because they don't focus on a tv series.
you only watched the prologue
Sure, buddy. How's the trooning process going? Have you snipped your balls of yet?
I would ruin your gf’s pussy with my big royal wiener
I really don't want to get into it but my new post-divorce GF with big ass Asian breasts loves it, went to the movie premiere, and met Maggie Smith so I have to watch it now. I am going to make her watch TD season one or Expanse.
Literally watched the first series-and-a-half for the first time the last two weeks.
Nothing really more than a soap opera, but in the past, with some fun little observations to be made, such as that past being the absolute tail-end of the the long 19th century where this landed nobility lost the ability to live of the rents of their estates, and Matthew calling himself 'middle class' but his mother, rightly, correcting him to 'upper middle class'.
Lost my interest now, read a bunch of synopses, and saw that Sybil and Matthew die, oh well.
Fun fact; Dallas also had a miscarriage in the last episode of its (short) first season.
Comfy show with quality production and cast, kino simple as.
It's peak comfycore.
Don't watch it but Maggie Smith is always based, this is now a Maggie Smith thread
I mean given the Dowager Countess, it already kind of was.
rushed through it a few years ago, don't remember much of it, caught glimpses of it again when my British mum watched it, very in her wheelhouse, old lady brit core
Watched it with my family a few years back. A little bland and predictable at times, but had a good cast and serviceable visual/sound direction. We used to come up with in-jokes like Tom secretly being a dogfricker and Robert losing their family fortune every Tuesday.
Never seen a show fall for from grace as hard as this one. Season one was good, not amazing, but good. Season 2 onward it became a silly soap opera.
>it was always a silly soap
It was better masking it in S1 at least. They just gave up on trying to make it look like quality TV and went full moron.
Very comfy show. Robert always bringing the house to the brink of ruin is hilarious.
Is that my homie professor mcgonagall
I liked it for the cinematics, soundtrack and cast. The problem was the plot being mediocre most of the time and adding ridiculous storylines like that maid that gets pregnant from a soldier that dies and she gets shunned by everyone or Sybil being le strong liberal woman.
The characters themselves are too liberal for the era and sometimes unbearable too. I read that the creator is part of the House of Lord or something and that he made the show as "see? us rich nobles aren't THAT bad!".
All things considered, it's a solid 7/10 all through. Now, Fellowes latest show (The Gilded Age) is much worse than this.
I got the same feels from The Crown including the downsides (inexplicably progressive writing) but I enjoyed that show a lot more, even if it is still basically "rehabilitative propaganda."
He's not in the House of Lords and it isn't "rehabilitive propaganda". Yeah there is some wokewashing, but nothing extreme.
A realistic depiction of the Royal Family in TV drama would not be published.
How bad would it be? They strike me mostly as petulant spoiled dumbasses and little else.
I was talking about Downton Abbey. Of The Crown, only the first two seasons are good. The writer of that claims to be a monarchist after being a republican for decades. However, he chose to ignore based Princess Anne's kidnapping, so I doubt that very much.
It's in my watchlist but I fear it's drama for women like poldark and don't dare start it yet.
I don't. It looks like the most boring kind of Bongslop
Underrated, very funny and wholesome.
They kill off mathew for no reason, show should of ended then
The actor wanted to leave the show and go on to "bigger and better things." You can guess how that turned out.
It's a classy soap opera with some fun characters and low stakes. Comfy.
This. Based.
There is a blacked sub plot, though
I could never get into it. I love the Gilded Age though
The show by the same guy or the time period in general?
30 years prior to Downton but yeah
I would've like that if the show wasn't rushed and if they gave the characters better material. The black chick had a more interesting storyline than the supposed main character.
it's awesome. Mary gets ass fricked by a Turkish guy in the first season. He comes in her ass and dies, can you imagine.
>Frick me like one of your Greek boys!
I was open-mouthed, was not expecting that line kek
I'd die on the spot too if I got to bugger Michelle Dockery, or even pretend too. No lame heart attacks either, my heads (yes, both) would spontaneously explode from the joy and ecstasy.
OT: Julian Fellowes meant that scene between Mary and the Turk to be "overcome with passion" when he shows up uninvited in her bedroom late at night and refuses to leave when she tells him to. So Mary was coerced, which is not the same thing as JF intended. Lots of examples of bad writing in the show ... how Dan Stevens got written out (ie, Matthew got killed off), for example. Some great one-liners to be sure, but the writing overall is pretty bad.
doesn't she say something about still being a virgin? or he does...something implies that it was backdoor action.
He says she'll still be a virgin for her wedding night. Given the time, I doubt he meant anal. Oral is a better bet, or that he's just plain lying to get into her pants. Lying rapist bastard.
On the topic of Dan Stevens apparently he gave them a very late notice that he was ditching the show, hence the suddenness
In hindsight, they should have had Matthew and Sybil run off, Edith marries the guy with the bum arm (who promptly dies, leaving her with enough money to keep the family afloat), and Tom ends up gangpressed into marrying Mary after the whole "Mary got fricked in the ass by a foreigner" thing comes out at Bates' appeal trial and Mary suddenly is persona non grata socially and Tom is the only person who is a viable option for Mary at that point.
I loved that the pay-off to Thomas being gay was the bye-the-bye revelation that Lord Grantham was gay after all (they teased he and Bates were lovers in season one) and him going off saying "So what if Thomas is gay? When I was in boarding school, I can't recall all of the times I was fricking around with my chums"
> I loved that the pay-off to Thomas being gay was the bye-the-bye revelation that Lord Grantham was gay after all (they teased he and Bates were lovers in season one) and him going off saying "So what if Thomas is gay? When I was in boarding school, I can't recall all of the times I was fricking around with my chums"
Why do you twisted homosexuals always have to come up with sick fan fiction?
He was contracted for three seasons and didn’t renew. They had plenty of time. The fact they killed him in the christmas special which aired on Christmas Day is hilarious though.
Anyone who can appreciate the Sopranos as a character driven drama will have the same appreciation of the characters in Downton Abbey.
>media illiterates and morons who own truck nuts will seethe at this comparison
Agreed. Sopranos overall had better writing but DA has an otherworldly feel due to the location shooting and fabulous period costumes.
Fine if you skip all the Bates/Anna bullshit
The rape storyline was shit and Thomas still being a prick to Bates felt stupid after Bates saved him from going to prison. It's a shame because Bates himself is a based character.
I don’t watch things that are clearly made for women
Liked it when it was called upstairs downstairs. Also downtown Abbey rips off the plot of Trinity by Leon uris. I'm not laughing with you in laughing at you.
Should have ended after the the main actor and the little sister actress died.
They dragged on it for too long and jumped the shark.
Agreed. But money overrides good sense. Hence the dungpile that was seasons 4-6 (with a few notable bright spots, like Lily James' character Rose.)
>Irish chaffeur marrying into nobility
>other servants see this and just accept it
>gay butler
>noble girls being prostitutes (outside of the youngest one)
>noble girls being prostitutes
pretty accurate tbh, check out the mountbattens
>Her daughter Pamela Hicks wrote a memoir in which she describes her mother as a man eater and her mother's many lovers as a succession of "uncles" throughout her childhood
>Pamela describes Edwina as a detached, rarely seen mother who preferred travelling the world with her current lover to mothering her children
>Her affair with Jawaharlal Nehru, prime minister of India, both during and after their post-war service has been widely documented
I only watched Downton Grabby
obnoxious britgay slop
maggie smith isn't enough to redeem it for me when there's better things to watch with maggie smith in them god bless her
Edith was the Meg of Downton Abbey
The old guy who left her was a champ