Downton Abbey - ITV1

Not sure I like Joanne Froggett with blonde hair.
I'm also confused about the daughters - who's who etc... my life is one big confusion at the moment!
 
I shall be watching, really enjoyed it. The aRAB are way too frequent, but as shuttermaze said, posting along as it airs is fun, so I think I will watch rather than taping and fast-forwarding.
 
Lady Sybil talking about a "professional qualified woman" - no such creature in 1912

Mention of a "boyfriend" - terminology unknown in 1912

Maid walking up to her mistress to ask after her mother - the presumption of the gel. I wonder if she can get away with it because this is set north of Watford where "we speak as we find". In many houses the servants were obliged to turn and face the walls when their "betters" were walking along the same corridor.

As part of her contract was Siobhan Finneran obliged to have her face pumped full of botox - it moves nary an inch as she spits yet more and more venom.

I find I'm watching this just to spot all the faux pas. Julian Fellowes must know better - he did 8 years ago in Gosford Park.
 
Boer War, or apparently the 2nd one according to Wikipedia - ended only 10 years before the year this is set:1912. If Dan Stevens character is 28 like actor then he would have just been going to Uni. So if u make character a tad older at 30 then mother would have been free to nurse in SA while son started studying medicine somewhere common and redbrick like... Manchester ;). Only just though.

PS: what's a weekend ? :D
 
Downton Abbey has been a rare treat from ITV on a Sunday evening. Dame Maggie Smith just steals every scene she's in, I adore her. Brendan Coyle as Bates is wonderful too, and someone for me to swoon over. I've loved both of those actors in anything I've seen them in.

All in all it's a very good cast and very well acted. I can't be bothered nit picking at all the historical inaccuracies there may be and that's coming from someone who likes her history too. It isn't a documentary, those things would matter more to me if it was. There just doesn't seem enough to get wound up about, and I just want to relax and enjoy a good bit of drama. It's rare on ITV of late to be able to do so.
 
I completely agree with you. In so many ways DA is conservative, cliche-ridden claptrap but I am hugely enjoying it nevertheless. It's classic Sunday evening comfort viewing and it looks gorgeous!

I'm loving 'Sybil' - her progressive female storyline feels a bit shoed-in sometimes but it's refreshing to see that she isn't the type to simply accept her fate and languish in the 'waiting room' - as Mary so aptly put it - merely hoping to make a good marriage.
 
Sorry I didn't mean to come across that harsh!!

I kinda did get what you meant btw. There hasn't been much to pick out in the last 11 years thanks to all this reality TV claptrap floating about.

Life On Mars, Shameless, This Is England 86, Ashes To Ashes (S1+2 only), Sherlock, maybe Doctor Who and that fabulous Shakepeare remakes the BBC did in 2005 (Macbeth in particular with Keeley Hawes and James Mcavoy) stand out to me. Downton Abbey I haven't seen properly yet. Ep 2 will be watched tomorrow!
 
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