January 16th, 2012
Started watching Downton Abbey, which is kind of great, particularly if you like genre mash-ups. You can practically hear the pitch meeting: “It’s Mad Men . . . in a house . . . for the Jane Austen set!”
(Never mind that it’s really for the Waugh set. I don’t think that producers–even at the BBC–would get caught up in such trivialities.)
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Just watched the first two episodes on netflix…me and my wife are hooked…going to try and get through the whole first season so we can catch up to the current season.
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This of it as my thank-you to you for giving me Justified.
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Or, think of it. That too. Coffee.
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Have you started calling your husband “Wynn Duffy” yet?
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Totally unrelated to this post, but because I don’t want you or your readers to miss this, here is another awesome Algis Valiunas’ piece:
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2012/01/the-cursed-poets-and-their-gods
Maybe someday he’ll write a Downtown Abbey post…
Galley Friend J.E. January 17, 2012 at 12:32 am
It’s delicious. Highbrow soap opera at its best. The only negative is Elizabeth McGovern. Surrounded by dozens of superb actors, including several, especially Maggie Smith, with authentic gravitas, she seems filled with helium. Real appointment TV.