I have it all planned out--dinner at 6:30 p.m. then clean-up in the kitchen finished by 7:30 p.m. and then a quick hot shower and into my jammies. By 7:45 I'll be in my favorite wing chair with a glass of brandy and great anticipation for the beginning of the fourth season of Downton Abbey. Would you believe my husband likes Downton also? He really does, he isn't faking it to make me happy. Actually, I think he likes seeing Isis in the opening frames . . . . Thanks to all of you in the UK who have seen the program and kept it to yourselves. I'd really hate to know what is going to happen "before it happens." [/i]
I couldn't tell you a thing about it Jane as I've never watched it. If you don't want to know what happens before it does just ask me!! I can keep a secret.
Eileen, I am SHOCKED! You have never watched Downton Abbey? You must catch up on seasons one through three, and enjoy season four. Warning--it is addictive. My husband and I look at each other on Friday night and say, "What is a 'weekend'?" One of the Dowager Countess' better lines, and she has a lot of them!
Kildale, NO! I like to try to figure out the story line/plot and see if I'm right (haven't done too well, yet). Anticipation is almost as good as watching Downton.
Oh man! Downton!!!! I'd had friends telling me for a couple of years that I should watch, that I'd love it, that it was worth the time etc. I'm not a huge TV watcher to begin with, plus the show just didn't sound like my kind of thing. Those period things, set back in time, english….none of it sounded appealing. But I'd had so many people tell me I'd like it, that I decided to cue up a couple of the episodes from season one on my iPad to watch while I was fasting, and then recuperating, from my colonoscopy. I knew I wouldn't be able to do much during that time, and so I figured, why not? A great way to pass the time, I could tell folks I'd watched the show and as predicted it just wasn't my cup of tea and it would finally shut them up. Well. Yes. About 15 minutes in to the first episode, and I was hooked! Absolutely and completely. I watched the entire first 3 seasons over the next month! I haven't seen the first episode of season 4 yet…..I had misunderstood when it was coming on, so I missed it when it aired. Lee's been looking for it so he can record it for me, which I think is supposed to happen this weekend. And he's got the TV all cued up to record all the coming episodes. I am SO excited!!! After the last episode in season 3…..well, I just had NO clue where they were going to go from there! What a shocker that was!!!! **I don't want to say anything about it if there are folks who haven't watched it yet, but man! I'm really curious to get your take on that! **
Who would have thought that a series involving WWI era folks would be of such interest to people now? But I'm hooked too! We've been made to wait so long for the series to start again, I was counting the weeks and months. (Oh that Maggie Smith!)
Ronni, I'm glad you are enjoying Downton. Cuatro-gatos, I think the producers and PBS are very surprised that people have an interest in a pre-WWI, WWI, post-WWI drama. I agree that Maggie Smith (Dowager Countess Violet) is a stitch. Only Dame Smith could bring off some of her lines with such panache.
The Dowager Countess of Downton is a pip! Dr. Clarkson: "You want me to lie?" Violet: "'Lie' is so unmusical a word." ~~~~~~~~~~ Robert: "I'll do it on one condition – no, two. First, Matthew must agree . . . Second, you will both admit it when you realize you were wrong." Violet: "Oh, well, that is an easy caveat to accept, because I'm never wrong." ~~~~~~~~~ Violet: "I do think a woman's place is eventually in the home, but I see no harm in her having some fun before she gets there." ~~~~~~~~~ Isobel: "Were you a very involved mother with Robert and Rosamund?" Violet: "Does it surprise you?" Isobel: "A bit. I'd imagined them surrounded by nannies and governesses, being starched and ironed to spend an hour with you after tea." Violet: "Yes, but it was an hour every day." ~~~~~~~~~ Robert: "They do say there's a wild man inside all of us." Violet: "If only he would stay inside." ~~~~~~~~ One of my favorites was following the scuffle between Sir Richard and Cousin Matthew. Violet: "What on earth's the matter?" Sir Richard: "I'm leaving in the morning Lady Grantham. I doubt we'll meet again" Violet: "Do You Promise?" ~~~~~~~~ "One forgets about parenthood... the on and on-ness of it." ~~~~~~~~ "What, pray tell, is a 'w e e k - e n d' ?" ~~~~~~~~ And one for we Stewies…."That is the thing about nature: there is so much of it."
Jane,..i have to admit i looked at one or two episodes and they were great but alas i never seemed to be home when they were shown again,..as for "Lonesome Dove",..now i could break a leg getting home for that
I just have to share this with you all. I had to Google Downton Abbey. I wasn't sure if it was a movie or weekly show. I feel very boring. I watch a NEWsie channel or I uses Law and Order as a sleeping pill. :-?
Jane, you are soooo safe from me. I don't even have a TV. Now, my dd LOVES Dr. Who. from some show from the BBC. Her and her friend watch (on you tube) all kinds of Dr. Who stuff and she even had a messenger bag knitted or crocheted for Caity for her birthday. It is really cute.
