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

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.

My standard line is that it's gosford park without any edge wit humor or irony

still super watchable and fun though

Fun fact: iPhone autocorrects gosford with hoagies

iPhone knows the score.

well, not too bad to start with. i guess SOME PEOPLE think it's gonna be horrible.

i wonder if the 'christmas episode' will be broadcast with the rest of the episodes?

british tv that looks and sounds is written like british tv

ouuuuuuuuuuch

the most annoying person i know was using this show to try and get into the pants of american exchange students, i would like to feel like this sums it up in some way but it probably doesn't

some people know this season is bad

lol i don't doubt it. the first two hour shot had some worrying signs already

max RE YOU THE one who posted this link on facebook today:

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/07/why_liberals_love_downton_abbey/

cuz it made me want to watch it now...

unless you are another max.

no that was me!

i M THE ONE

the language is starting to stick out to me as not very period anymore. did people really say "give my confidence a boost" in 1917?

yeah, probably not

i'm done with season 3 of sons of anarchy so maybe i'll move on to this on netflix.

I still am so torn on whether I should bother with this.

The whole first season only has 7 episodes, c'mon, you can do it.

did people really say "give my confidence a boost" in 1917?

the term "self-confidence" was attested by the 17th century, and "boost" has been around since the early 19th, so considering their mother is american... it's possible.

watched 3 episodes and i can't say that i'm hopelessly addicted. i'll watch the rest though. kinda wish it were better...but its okay. i guess my one and only standard for anything soapy/dramatic like this is, do i care what happens to people? i don't really care in this case. actually, i have tweo standards. my other standard is, is this better stoned? again, this show fails on that front. but, its watchable enough.

went through both series and the x-mas special in the span of a week, ending last night at 1am.

feel like the series wrapped everything up and it could end here, if they wanted; bates is such a spineless wuss it's kind of hard to even care about what happens to him.

wife calls this show 'the butlers'

this show has replaced mad men as the thing most randomly tagged on to etsy/ebay descriptions

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.

― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, January 6, 2012 7:13 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

she called me yesterday and my prediction was 100% right, she talked about how badly written it was for a while and then said "oh i guess it's coming on talk soon bye" <3 u mom

Really disappointed at lack of tint-shifted anigifs itt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/fashion/downton-abbey-inspires-themed-viewing-parties.html

pondered for literally seconds whether this should go on quid-ag or here

classic picture btw

But the award for best costume might go to Patricia Morrison, 65, even though no one will see it. Ms. Morrison, the widow of the rocker Jim Morrison and author of a memoir called “Strange Days,” watches “Downton” alone in bed, wearing sweat pants and a tiara. “I happen to have two,” she said. “Who knew you could get tiaras on eBay? But I’m deeply disappointed that nobody on ‘Downton’ has worn one so far.”

This show is kinda ok but mostly meh. Strikes me as somewhat generic and occasionally hacky aristocrat drama. Most of its moves feel familiar.

Watching with my roommate - we killed the first season inside of a week and we've caught up with what's been shown on PBS. Total soap - I don't really care what happens to any of the characters (except the foxy maid in love w/ Bates), but I want to know what happens next week dammit.

It's a treat that our Sunday night viewing is Shameless then Downton Abbey. Fiona > Mary C

ugh this shit with a burned canadian with amnesia

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

― max, Tuesday, November 1, 2011 8:40 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

having just rewatched i mean re-screened gosford park, this is a truth bomb

also, with aristocratic characters who aren't all snobby scumbags from hell

so did bates axe his wifey or what

and when is that jerkoff thomas gonna get caught sexing a man

this show is redic (just finished sea 2)

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.

― jed_, Tuesday, November 1, 2011 8:24 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I actually don't get this complaint. it seems to tie up everything I wanted but the only thing left is them getting bates out

The Man Without A Face ep was terrible, Matthew/Mary/Sybil/Chauffeur/etc. drama plotted over waaaaaaaay too many episodes, Lord Grantham almost indulging in an affair - I dunno about over-plotted but it got too soapy in the second season.

agree to disagree maybe. idk I totally accept this show as a soap opera w/ no real deeper intent and mad men is probably exactly the same at its base except i understand it (mad men) more from an american perspective and want more THERE there

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsyfb4EBYq1qzh1f6.gif

would like to see animated version of this show w/all parts played by characters from super mario bros. universe.

well this happened.

fistfight next week?

:-) 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.

I am a property owner and a capitalist (when it suits my interests). My love of pre-code film is based in part on Hollywood's idea of 1930s upper-class life.

But during the first act of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, I was feeling like an anarchist and wishing I had a bomb to throw. Fortunately, "Noel Coward" came into the story, dropping his own sort of infernal devices along the way.

People are wishing for a DA prequel (the Countess in her prime, in the capitols of prewar Europe?). I'd rather see a flash-forward to 1960--Lady Mary and the estate ravaged by WWII, death duties and taxes, and the disappearance of the servant class?

And then the trailers before the new Spinal Tap movie included something for "Fackham Hall," which appears to be a distressingly bad parody of DA. No thank you.

i'd like to binge-watch Bosom Manor personally speaking