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Downton Abbey
OMG, this show totally wins at melodrama! I was giggling a few times at the pearl-clutching and hand-to-the-forehead stuff. This show is so much fun! WWI soap opera!
- I love the Harriet Jones and Prof McGonagall show! They're in a position to argue philosophically about the goings on of Downton Abbey. (Sometimes getting carried away and not thinking of the lives affected in their arguments, especially Cousin Isobel. She tends to have a black-and-white morality, while the Dowager's is very grey.) So they offer this sort of above-it-all commentary on the ongoing shenanigans.
- The Dowager got in some funny lines again - Maggie Smith must have loads of fun with them. She's sort of turning into The Cool Granny. Mwah.
- Mary and Matthew: could two people pine any harder? XD I expect they'll go through lots of angst this season, spend a bit of time engaged to other people, then finally admit their love. Although I suppose they could go really angsty and have one of them get married, drawing things out for another season or so.
- Mrs. Bates is EVIL. Heh. (Recognized the actress from The Tudors.) But at least people are starting to know that she's forcing Bates to do things. My prediction: MURDER MYSTERY. There would be a few people who would love to see her dead. But Bates was happy before she turned up and so CLEARLY that had to be squashed. XD
- Matthew's fiance looked really familiar to me - the actress was in an episode of Ghost Whisperer and an episode of Poirot, so I guess that's where I've seen her. I don't really have much of an opinion on her, other than it looks like she's got her own drama going on in the preview next week.
- Sybil's storyline looks promising. I'll be interested watching her start up with being a nurse. (I'm fairly indifferent to the sort-of romance with the chauffeur. But then I'm not overly invested in any of the romances going on.)
- I'm not super annoyed at Thomas for wounding himself to get out of the trenches. Yeah, the guy's a dick, but it's clear he's got massive psychological trauma going on. He'll come home with a whopping case of PTSD and in those days they didn't know how to treat it. I actually feel kind of bad for him at the moment.
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