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You've piqued my interest!
Just watched Downton Abbey Season 6, Episode 8- amazing how much this episode accomplished including letting Edith's secret out of the bag! One more episode to go, but we have to wait until mid-March. So when will they fit in the Christmas episode?
I'm watching The Man in the High Castle on Amazon prime, and it is excellent! Makes me wish I had read the book first, though.
You've piqued my interest!
Just watched Downton Abbey Season 6, Episode 8- amazing how much this episode accomplished including letting Edith's secret out of the bag! One more episode to go, but we have to wait until mid-March. So when will they fit in the Christmas episode?
Oh, yes. That was a brilliant episode. The season took a while to warm up, but ended explosively.
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That sounds as though it is an extraordinarily interesting series.
I'd call it watchable (MIHC). Regarding Downton, the 9th episode is described as the final episode. Is there another Christmas special that is part of the story or just a special reminiscent type of show?
The ninth episode is the Christmas episode, as far as I am aware. The actual series when it was broadcast here had eight episodes, followed by the Christmas episode (the ninth).
Now, I have to say that the eighth episode was really excellent; that breakfast scene was awful, and brilliant, Edith was magnificent and Mary superb, icy and toxic; I also really liked the scene where Tom with vehement passion put a few home truths to Mary.
Thanks. I asked because the previews did not look Christmasy.
They almost had to much story progress in the eight episode.
They wrote Edith as an amazing and forgiving character. It's hard to imagine anyone falling for Mary other than for positional social advantage. I don't remember her ever letting her hair down. I'd have to rewatch the Michael Crawley episodes to see remember if she ever acted like anything other than a cold aloof fish.The references about opening big houses to tours for income was quit the projection into the future.
The US does not have as many grand homes as the UK, (I don't think) but the several I have visited, The Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California and Biltmore in Ashville, North Carolina both followed the same path, they were unsustainable for the original owners as just a residence. The Hearst Castle is owned by the the California Park System, and although Biltmore is still owned by the Biltmore family (I think), it is a commercial enterprise."Opening our home for tours on a regular basis... Obscene!" Or something like that.
Former home of William Randolf Hearst
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Well, @Huntn, the thing about ancestral piles in the UK - and elsewhere - is that a great many of them have centuries of family lore and history in them, and that they have a tale - or tales - to tell.
Downton Abbey was actually shot on location in Highclere Castle, not a movie studio. The fact that the rooms, fittings, and furnishings were authentic added to the 'feel' of the series.
Re Matthew Crawley, by the third series, it was clear that Mary and he were happily matched, and that Mary's more acerbic side had receded somewhat.
Downton Abbey was actually shot on location in Highclere Castle, not a movie studio. The fact that the rooms, fittings, and furnishings were authentic added to the 'feel' of the series.
Re Matthew Crawley, by the third series, it was clear that Mary and he were happily matched, and that Mary's more acerbic side had receded somewhat.
Mary was just too reserved. I don't remember an instance of her expressing happiness by word or action. Yes, they are probably there, but viewing the series as a whole, in summary fashion, they have eluded me.
As far as the rest, yes I know and agree. As an aside, the kitchen scenes were filmed on a set.
Mary was just too reserved. I don't remember an instance of her expressing happiness by word or action. Yes, they are probably there, but viewing the series as a whole, in summary fashion, they have eluded me.
As far as the rest, yes I know and agree. As an aside, the kitchen scenes were filmed on a set.
Oh, yes, the 'downstairs' scenes were indeed filmed on a set, because the kitchens of Highclere castle had been modernised and could not be used - or credibly imagined - as set at the time of the First World War, or the 1920s.
Mary was about as content as we ever saw her when she was married to Matthew, but that, as we all know, changed subsequently after his death and subsequent departure from the series.
Terrific series - one of my all time favourites.
Mine as well. Actually I like all of the Star Trek "spinoffs".
This looks pretty fantastic!
Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney, a man who has been to the ends of the earth and comes back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father's shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself. But his father's legacy is a poisoned chalice, and with enemies lurking in every dark corner, James must navigate increasingly complex territories to avoid his own death sentence. Encircled by conspiracy, murder, and betrayal, a dark family mystery unfolds in a combustible tale of love and treachery.
Starring: Tom Hardy, Michael Kelly, Jonathan Pryce, Oona Chaplin, David Hayman
Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney, a man who has been to the ends of the earth and comes back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father's shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself. But his father's legacy is a poisoned chalice, and with enemies lurking in every dark corner, James must navigate increasingly complex territories to avoid his own death sentence. Encircled by conspiracy, murder, and betrayal, a dark family mystery unfolds in a combustible tale of love and treachery.
Starring: Tom Hardy, Michael Kelly, Jonathan Pryce, Oona Chaplin, David Hayman
Watching the first episode of "BlindSpot"...there's a marathon today.
Looks good so far
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Edit; VERY GOOD so far 
Looks good so far
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Edit; VERY GOOD so far
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I can't stop watching Fuller House. I shouldn't, but I can't help it. It's not a good show at all.
And I ****ing love it.
And I ****ing love it.
The Pilgrims (American Experience-PBS)- Good history regarding the Puritans/Pilgrims origins and voyage on the Mayflower to establish the Plymouth Plantation, Mass. 70000 native Americans lived in the area. A plague brought by European fisherman wiped out a swath 15 miles inland up and down a substantial portion of the coast. The Pilgrims believed the sickness and death was God's providence making way for them to settle.
Watched Blindspot (Season 1, Episode 11) and Suits (Season 5, Episode 15).
(My favorite TV Shows).
(My favorite TV Shows).
Blindspot proves that tattoos don't make the human body prettier. I don't remember why I stopped. watching it pretty early on.
I don't remember why I stopped. watching it pretty early on. 