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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Monday, 4 February 2013
Men of Downton Abbey BEFORE Downton Abbey...Posted on February 3, 2013 by Cathy Chester
Mr. Carson, Jim Carter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WfUTDlmLMFk#!
Matthew Crawley, Dan Stevens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MMogFYhaHeA
Mr. Bates, Brendan Coyle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NU6o4Ticx-c
His Lordship, Hugh Bonneville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JexO-N39Nzg
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Downton Abbey Season 3: Episode 5 on Masterpiece Classic PBS – A Recap & Review 3 February 2013 by Laurel Ann (Austenprose)
By Laurel Ann (AUSTENPROSE)
Recap of episode 5 (spoilers ahead)
Lady Sybil has been laid to rest and Downton Abbey will never be the same. The family’s grief and mourning is very acute, especially by her husband Tom Branson whose future there seems uncertain. The baby must be christened and Tom is determined to have her baptized in his own faith. This appalls Lord Grantham who feels her life will be doomed as a “left footer.” Catholicism vs. Anglicism is discussed at dinner upstairs and down and there is a definite division of beliefs. The growing rift between Lord and Lady Grantham over local Dr. Clarkson’s advice to save Sybil vs. the London specialist Dr. Tapsell moves the Dowager Countess to step in and convince Dr. Clarkson to tell her son and daughter-in-law that Lady Sybil was destined to die even with the surgery he recommended. This realization mends the fence and they are reconciled in their grief.
Here are a few of my favorite moments from episode 5
“Did you hear about Tom’s announcement at breakfast? He wants the child to be a left footer.” – Lord Grantham
It was interesting to see all of the household’s reaction to the Catholic vs. Anglican issue. It helped us remember what era this drama is placed in and how important your choice of faith was.
READ MORE OF AUSTENPROSE'S RECAP: http://austenprose.com/2013/02/03/downton-abbey-season-3-episode-5-on-masterpiece-classic-pbs-a-recap-review/
Recap of episode 5 (spoilers ahead)
Lady Sybil has been laid to rest and Downton Abbey will never be the same. The family’s grief and mourning is very acute, especially by her husband Tom Branson whose future there seems uncertain. The baby must be christened and Tom is determined to have her baptized in his own faith. This appalls Lord Grantham who feels her life will be doomed as a “left footer.” Catholicism vs. Anglicism is discussed at dinner upstairs and down and there is a definite division of beliefs. The growing rift between Lord and Lady Grantham over local Dr. Clarkson’s advice to save Sybil vs. the London specialist Dr. Tapsell moves the Dowager Countess to step in and convince Dr. Clarkson to tell her son and daughter-in-law that Lady Sybil was destined to die even with the surgery he recommended. This realization mends the fence and they are reconciled in their grief.
Here are a few of my favorite moments from episode 5
“Did you hear about Tom’s announcement at breakfast? He wants the child to be a left footer.” – Lord Grantham
It was interesting to see all of the household’s reaction to the Catholic vs. Anglican issue. It helped us remember what era this drama is placed in and how important your choice of faith was.
READ MORE OF AUSTENPROSE'S RECAP: http://austenprose.com/2013/02/03/downton-abbey-season-3-episode-5-on-masterpiece-classic-pbs-a-recap-review/
Sunday, 3 February 2013
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Monday, 28 January 2013
'Downton Abbey' Season 3 Recap: Unbearable Tragedy Strikes Posted by Adriana Velez on January 27, 2013 at 10:36 PM (THE STIR)
To quote the Dowager Countess, "Nothing is as bad as this." It was her most memorable line of the episode. But this line was uttered out of agony, and I'd take a million of her barbs over that. Did you ever think you would see Violet crumple in tears? That was one of the most heartbreaking moments in this episode.
If you haven't seen this one yet, stop right here. MAJOR SPOILER ALERT. Oh my God, this episode was almost too much. So horribly tragic -- and so infuriating.
***WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD***
You saw this coming with Sybil, right? From the moment Sir Philip arrives on the scene, with his title and all that toff brotherhood between him and Grantham. Sybil was pretty much sacrificed on the altar of England's dysfunctional class system. Sir Philip breezes in, and Grantham immediately prefers him over the family physician, Dr. Clarkson. Oh sure, Clarckson's been wrong before -- but he knows his patients, and his vision isn't clouded with smug arrogance.
Grantham and Sir Philip are infuriating. But the misery over Sybil's death by eclampsia shortly after the birth of her daughter runs even deeper for the family. And what a horrible death it was -- from the scary labor down to the convulsions at the end. The kindest, most loving person in the Crawley family had an unjustly wretched end.
READ MORE; http://thestir.cafemom.com/entertainment/150209/downton_abbey_season_3_recap
Sunday, 27 January 2013
Downton Abbey Season 3, Episode 4 Recap: A Shocking Death Hits the Crawley Family Next Article 26 minutes ago by Gemma Wilson (WET PAINT)
To those among you who resisted the “Who died at Downton?” spoilers, we’re wiping the tears from our eyes long enough to tell you that Downton Abbey will never be the same. If you haven’t yet watched the January 27 episode, you best move along to something — anything — else.
There is no way to sugarcoat this news: Lady Sybil Crawley (Jessica Brown Findlay) is dead, and nothing is right with the world.
Lovely Lady Sybil — who wore scandalous harem pants, fought for women’s rights, helped housemaid Gwen get a job as a secretary, worked as a wartime nurse, married for love, and wanted nothing more than her independence — dies shortly after giving birth. Mrs. Hughes (Phyllis Logan) is spot-on when she says, “The sweetest spirit under this roof is gone.”
As we open, Sybil is in the early stages of labor. The family doctor, Dr. Clarkson (David Robb), is on hand, but Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) has also hired doctor-to-the-rich-and-richer Sir Philip Tapsell to handle the actual delivery. Everyone is worried, but in a standard, floor-pacing kind of way. Even the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) is there, explaining, “I hate to get news second hand.”
Dr. Clarkson starts to fear that Sybil may be in danger of eclampsia, but Sir Philip essentially tells him to shut up. “I warn you, Doctor, if you wish to remain, you must be silent.” Dr. Clarkson is adamant, and eventually Lady Grantham (Elizabeth McGovern) sides with him. He wants to get Sybil to a hospital for an emergency C-section, but Sir Philip won’t budge, and Lord Grantham only trusts his fancy doctor. So Sybil stays put.
But good news: It’s a girl, and everyone’s fine! The exhausted Sybil only wants to sleep, and everyone — both upstairs and down — finally goes to bed.
'Downton Abbey' Recap: 'Like Too Many Women Before Her' The women - and men - of Downton pay the price for the patriarchy (ROLLING STONE)
By Sean T. Collins
January 27, 2013 10:05 PM ET
The thing about comfort food is that when someone serves you a piping hot plate of it week after week, you never suspect that one day they're going to grab it and smash it into your face.
Downton Abbey is just a soap opera, as both its admirers and detractors will tell you; what side of that divide they come down on depends on both how they feel about the genre itself and this show's impeccable version thereof. And while people die on soaps all the time, those deaths are typically tearjerkers, not gut-punchers. That's certainly been the case on Downton until this point, where the major deaths – Kemal Pamuk, Cora Bates, William, Lavinia, even the Crawley heirs whose deaths on the Titanic started it all – have meant more to us in terms of how they've affected the survivors than the dyers themselves.
So I'll admit it: Despite the ominous rumblings from across the pond, where this season aired months ago, I never saw this coming. Not when Dr. Clarkson mentioned his concerns about pre-eclampsia. Not when the family really started to fight about which doctor was in the right. Not when the childbirth seemingly went off without a hitch. Not when Sybil was issuing ominously final-sounding instructions about how her family should be treated. Not even when the panic-stricken family gathered in Sybil's room, watching her scream and pound her own head and seize and convulse and gasp for breath. Surely, surely, something could be done. That's the kind of show this is, right?
Wrong. And in proving it wrong, creator/writer/showrunner Julian Fellowes and actress Jessica Brown Findlay delivered more than just one of the most physically unbearable-to-watch death scenes this side of Breaking Bad or Deadwood – they served up the show's most powerful broadside against its own sexist system yet.
Every woman I know who's experienced pregnancy and childbirth has at least one jaw-dropping story of creepy or condescending or infuriating paternalism by some male medical professional or other. Well before you get into the well-documented War on Women territory of moving to convict rape victims who abort their pregnancies of felony evidence tampering, women's physical and psychological pain during this process is too often treated like an inconvenience to be brushed aside or powered through rather than treated with all due hippocratically mandated urgency. If those needs are not taken seriously, neither is the gender that generates them.
In tonight's episode, that paternalism becomes tragically literal. That tragedy is foreshadowed when an ebullient Lady Edith learns she's been offered a gig as a newspaper columnist, with a carte-blanche remit that would make a 21st-century freelancer of any gender flip the eff out. (Ahem.) Without even realizing how condescending he's being, Robert reacts as though the editor only made the offer to draught off the great Earl of Grantham's family name. When he looks at his daughter he sees neither her talent nor her need for support, only a weaker-sex reflection of himself. And among his peer group, he's a relatively open-minded guy! Downton Season Three's laser-precise exploitation of Lord Robert's weaknesses has been kind of remarkable to behold.
Enter the odiously arrogant doctor Sir Phillip, and the mistake that costs Sybil her life. Confronted with a difference in opinion among two male medical professionals – one of whom has known Sybil not just as a patient but as a person (and even a staff member, during the War) since birth and therefore reacts to her uncharacteristic appearance and behavior with alarm, the other who'd never even met her until the day before and therefore blows it off – Robert and Cora split on what should be done. Naturally, the default decision is to do what her father prefers: nothing. The delay costs them precious time, preventing them from taking the question to Sybil's husband Tom to make the final call; by this point Sybil herself is too incoherent to make the decision herself. Father knew best, until he didn't.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/downton-abbey-recap-like-too-many-women-before-her-20130127#ixzz2JEqTnmup
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Michelle Dockery devastated by Lady Sybil death Source: Bang Showbiz
Michelle Dockery was "devastated" while filming Lady Sybil's death in 'Downton Abbey'.
The 30-year-old actress ・who portrays Lady Mary in the ITV1 period drama ・ and Laura Carmichael, who plays Lady Edith, were disappointed when Jessica Brown Findlay's alter-ego was killed off, and the brunette beauty really misses her "distinctive" laugh. She said: "We knew a couple of weeks prior to filming the episode what was going happen to it felt like this huge build up. One of the last scenes we shot with Jessica was where the sisters say goodbye to her, and me and Laura Carmichael [Lady Edith] were just devastated playing it.
"We've spent three years of our lives together so Jessica going was as wrench. I miss her laugh, it's really distinctive."
While Michelle was distraught filming Sybil's death, she puts her full trust in 'Downton Abbey' co-creator Julian Fellowes and is "excited" to see what is going to happen to each character in the show.
READ MORE: http://www.list.co.uk/article/46721-michelle-dockery-devastated-by-lady-sybil-death/
'Downton Abbey' Season 3 episode 4: Lady Sybil's baby arrives, get out the hankies By Andrea Reiher January 27, 2013 10:00 PM ET (ZAP 2 IT)
This might just be the finest episode "Downton Abbey" has ever done. It is certainly a masterclass in acting from everyone involved. Be warned: Don't keep reading if you haven't watched yet.
Lady Sybil has died in childbirth. What an absolutely gut-wrenching hour of television. When Sybil goes into labor, there are some issues and Dr. Clarkson wants to move her to the hospital. But Lord Grantham's stuffy specialist Sir Phillip says everything is perfectly normal.
And a healthy baby girl arrives. But Sybil goes into seizures in the middle of the night and dies, with her family surrounding her, begging the doctors to do something. By that point it's too late.
Kudos to Elizabeth McGovern and Allen Leech as Cora and Tom. Their acting in Sybil's death scene was rip-your-heart-out good. This episode could really be anyone's Emmy reel, though -- from the Crawleys to the staff to Lady Violet. Maggie Smith's small moment at the end with Carson and then the hitch in her walk said more than 1000 words could express.
It was also a nice showing for Anna and Thomas, both of whom were closer to Lady Sybil than the other staff. Really just stellar work all around.
READ MORE: http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/01/downton-abbey-season-3-episode-4-lady-sybils-baby-arrives-get-out-the-hankies.html
HUGH BONNEVILLE ENJOYS THE DOWNTON LIFE (Express)
Sunday January 27,2013
By Adam Helliker
OUR favourite smoothie Hugh Bonneville is certainly enjoying the perks of being a Downton Abbey star. The Sherborne-educated actor was in skittish mood at the National Television Awards, describing to a female admirer what he was wearing.
“Socks by M&S; throwing their stuff at me they are. Asda, Lidl, they can’t get enough of me! And I’ve just come out of the tanning salon so I’m right up there with the Italians.”
Thankfully Hugh’s ego is kept in check by his lovely wife Lisa. A grounded figure, who met Hugh as a teenager, Mrs Bonneville says she is “unfazed by the glitz of the showbusiness world” and is bemused when she sees women swooning over her hubby.
READ MORE: http://www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/373669
By Adam Helliker
OUR favourite smoothie Hugh Bonneville is certainly enjoying the perks of being a Downton Abbey star. The Sherborne-educated actor was in skittish mood at the National Television Awards, describing to a female admirer what he was wearing.
“Socks by M&S; throwing their stuff at me they are. Asda, Lidl, they can’t get enough of me! And I’ve just come out of the tanning salon so I’m right up there with the Italians.”
Thankfully Hugh’s ego is kept in check by his lovely wife Lisa. A grounded figure, who met Hugh as a teenager, Mrs Bonneville says she is “unfazed by the glitz of the showbusiness world” and is bemused when she sees women swooning over her hubby.
READ MORE: http://www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/373669
Saturday, 26 January 2013
Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen: What is the ultimate Pride and Prejudice cast? From Colin Firth and Keira Knightley to Laurence Olivier and Alison Steadman, which actors would you hand pick for the ultimate Pride and Prejudice screen adaptation? Vote now...
Ellie Walker-Arnott
3:12 PM, 25 January 2013
Jane Austen's sunniest novel Pride and Prejudice celebrates its 200th anniversary on Monday. And it's got us thinking...
The iconic love story has sparked numerous adaptations, from the classic Laurence Olivier version to the 2005 romantic blockbuster starring Keira Knightly and Rosamund Pike. (It even inspired Helen Fielding to pen Bridget Jones's Diary...) But if you could hand pick actors from across the best-loved film and TV adaptations to make an ultimate cast of characters, who would you choose?
Do you firmly believe no other Darcy could beat Colin Firth emerging from that lake in a wet shirt? Is Keira Knightley's pouty performance in the 2005 your favourite Lizzie Bennet? Maybe Alison Steadman's shrieking Mrs Bennet strikes you as the best? Or perhaps bare-chested Johnny Wickham in the upbeat Bollywood adaptation Bride and Prejudice is your favourite?
Friday, 25 January 2013
‘Downton Abbey’ season 4 spoilers: Major Michelle Dockery scoop! (CARTER)
Of course, let’s start things off here with a warning: if you want to be surprised about the ending to “Downton Abbey” season 3, you really need to stop reading now.
I DON'T DARE PUT ANYTHING ELSE HERE FOR THE AMERICAN AUDIENCE - CHECK OUT THE REST OF THE ARTICLE HERE: http://cartermatt.com/47216/downton-abbey-season-4-spoilers-major-michelle-dockery-scoop/comment-page-1/#comment-88993
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Hugh Bonneville: “I Hope ‘Downton’ Ends While We Are Ahead” By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 (BBC America)
Here’s a worrying thought.
Hugh Bonneville, star of Downton Abbey, thespian of note and general all-round thinking person’s Lord of the Manor, has expressed a worry that the TV series that not only made him a household name (in places where Downton is a hit, obviously) but also keeps him in hot dinners, should end sooner rather than later.
His concern appears to be keeping the brand alive at the cost of the things that make it a success, namely the period in which it is set, the age and experiences of the characters, and Julian Fellowes’ ability to make the passing of history sit comfortably within the world he has created.
He told the Mail: “I am sure the money men would like it to go on for ever and ever because it does sell extremely well around the world. I think the next series is nudging forward and starts six to eight months ahead from the last and I think we will start to bump into other period dramas if we are not careful time wise.”
By which he presumably means Brideshead Revisited, revisited.
READ MORE: http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2013/01/hugh-bonneville-i-hope-downton-ends-while-we-are-ahead/
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
NEWS/Downton Abbey Recap: Sybil and Branson Are on the Lam by Christina Dowling Sun., Jan. 20, 2013 8:00 PM PST (E!)
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Tom Branson (Allen Leech) brought some rainy weather with him when he crossed the Irish Sea and he has quite the tale to tell. Something that is a surprise to no one who has watched Downton's previous two seasons is that Tom is fighting for an independent Ireland. We might as well admit we are huge nerds for Irish history, but if you aren't caught up you should probably get on Wikipedia so you understand the Maud Gonne, Countess Markievicz and Lady Gregory shout-outs. Long story short he was present—but feeling very guilty—when a country house was burned to the ground. Ruh. Roh.
Turns out that Tom, while he might be wanted for arson, isn't a terrible person who left Sybil pregnant and alone in Ireland. It was all part of the big escape plan. But presumably getting banished from Ireland and stuck at Downton was not. However it is terribly convenient for the Bransons to come back to stay: All the drama is back under one roof!
Out of Favor: Bates (Brendan Coyle) is still walking in circles in the most depressing place in the world. And even worse he hasn't been getting any letters from his dearly devoted wife, Anna (Joanne Froggatt). Bates learns he is actually quite good at working the system in prison. Maybe he's done some hard time before or just watched a lot of Oz.
READ MORE: http://www.eonline.com/news/380369/downton-abbey-recap-sybil-and-branson-are-on-the-lam
Saturday, 19 January 2013
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