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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 19, 2013 19:36:56 GMT
Recently tried that everyone loves but neither of us could get very far with: Breaking Bad and House of Cards. *sigh* Had the same problem. Not watching BB this year made me feel in exile from the rest of the planet, but after a few episodes, I simply did not want to watch it. House of Cards was so highly recommended here & by various critics, but it seemed as there was some force field preventing me from wanting to watch it. Thanks for the Foyle's War recommendation, Lola. I'm wearing deepest mourning since Downton Abbey's season finale. (except for the Xmas special ~ yay! ~ then the endless wait for the next season ~ sob.) FW sounds like just the ticket for that essential Brit fix.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 28, 2013 4:33:37 GMT
And how did you enjoy Haute Cuisine, Mrs. Htmb? I just watched the 2013 Christmas special of Downton Abbey. *sigh* How do I love it? Let me count the ways. But, *sigh*, there is no more until autumn of 2014.
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Post by htmb on Dec 28, 2013 13:53:30 GMT
It's Ms. HTMB, Bixa dear and, yes, I enjoyed Haute Cuisine, though I tried not reading subtitles so missed some of the French dialogue. I doubt I would have enjoyed it as much if it had been in English and I wasn't using it to try to improve my language skills. I also found that I could watch Merlin, so I started at the beginning and watched three episodes. I have a long way to go before catching up to the last season, which is the only one I've seen. I have not had the pleasure of viewing any of the new season of Downton Abbey, since the typical way to watch in the US is via PBS. Broadcasting starts on the next Sunday or two.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 19, 2014 15:01:53 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2014 19:26:00 GMT
Well, because I did a Downton test weeks ago, I assumed you were talking about the same test, Bixa. This is the one I took. I took the Zimbio one and I turned up as Bates. So I'm a murderer to boot.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2014 19:45:54 GMT
Well, because I did a Downton test weeks ago, I assumed you were talking about the same test, Bixa. This is the one I took. I took the Zimbio one and I turned up as Bates. So I'm a murderer to boot. I finally took that test and apparently I am Bates as well. But since I don't watch the series, it is meaningless to me.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 1, 2014 3:06:59 GMT
Well, because I did a Downton test weeks ago, I assumed you were talking about the same test, Bixa. This is the one I took. I took the Zimbio one and I turned up as Bates. So I'm a murderer to boot. I've never watched Downton...but I did the test anyway and got Anna. Wifey material apparently....
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Post by Kimby on Jan 5, 2015 23:54:16 GMT
Downton Abbey just started airing Season 5 last night. We'll watch it, but not till it's available on DVD. From the library. (Could be awhile.)
I did watch the special about proper Edwardian manners and behavior that followed, though.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 22, 2015 23:34:14 GMT
We have recently begun watching Grantchester, just because it comes on right after Downton Abbey.
This Masterpiece Theater series on PBS features a vicar-turned-amateur-investigator and a gruff police inspector who become crime-solving partners in the hamlet of Grantchester. Set in time somewhere between Downton and today...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 9, 2015 1:37:58 GMT
This is hardly petty, as I'm feeling quite desperate about it ~ I just found out that season six of Downton Abbey will be the final season. *want to die*
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Post by Kimby on Sept 18, 2015 4:10:08 GMT
Bixa, jonesing for another season of Downton Abbey?
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 5, 2015 19:21:33 GMT
Poor Iain Glen -- he had to play a pettily vicious shit in Downton Abbey & is burdened with the most laughably melodramatic lines in Game of Thrones.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 19, 2015 3:11:22 GMT
Not the most revealing of trailers. Was it good?
Since we're doing dinner theater dining, I must reveal that during my early afternoon meal (First of the day. Breakfast, barf), I watched the Season Four finale of Game of Thrones -- an extravaganza of climactic moments leaving me with dry eyeballs because of not blinking once during the hour-long bloodbath. I felt that my repast of memelas with chorizo married nicely with the general moods of treachery, cold-heartedness, blood-thirst, plot switches etc. that characterize this compelling & suspenseful series.
For supper (cornbread & cracklings), I watched the most recent episode of season 6, Downton Abbey. The rustic snack wasn't really suited to the usual high-faluting tone of the series, but (without spoilers for the poor N.Americans who've yet to see season 6) there was blood.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 5, 2015 23:19:53 GMT
Soooooooooo. You watched a show set in 1960. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. My shows: Vikings -- pretty good, although probably not to be counted on for accuacy. The Good Wife -- much better this season. was sort of floundering at the end of last season. Downton Abbey -- sixth (& last! ) season. continues to be deeply satisfying, although the most recent episode was awfully soapy.
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Post by deyana on Nov 18, 2015 14:35:48 GMT
I've just discovered a show called Downton Abbey on Netflix. And I'm captivated. Reminds of the old Upstairs Downstairs show years back that I vaguely remember watching. Link: www.itv.com/downtonabbeyThe great thing about watching it on Netflix is that I can watch it when it suits me and apparently there are three seasons. Not sure if they will be making anymore. Maggie Smith is SO suited to her character - a mean old bag with a sharp wit (In her own words)
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Post by mich64 on Nov 19, 2015 18:53:21 GMT
I enjoy all three programs Bixa! Soon the new season of Vikings will begin here in Canada as will the last season of Downton Abbey . Also looking forward to the catching up on seasons of Game of Thrones. We had a day tour booked in Ireland to see some of the areas where Game of Thrones is filmed but I cancelled when we realized how much walking was involved, while I could have done it, we had serious doubts as to whether I could keep up with the group since this would not be at my own pace. Maybe next time.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 19, 2015 19:45:54 GMT
Yaay for you, Mich, although I am kind of jealous that you still have a whole season of Downton left to see. There is a Downton thread here. And there is a link in #4 of that thread to take you to discussion of the show in this thread. Best of all, if you follow that link you can see my darling Darla playing the part of Lady Mary. The Game of Throne sites in Ireland must be in pretty rugged territory, right? You can go into training for next time. Do you have any idea which parts of Canada were used for sites in Vikings? There is some beautiful, wild scenery & I think some is in Northern Ireland and some in Canada. Also, when will season 4 start? I watched a youtube video interview with the Vikings cast. The interviewer asked if the cast had to train for their roles. "Rollo" (Clive Standen) pointed out that the real warriors would have been people who farmed and rowed heavy boats, so were always in shape. I think he was side-stepping the obvious -- that there is a lot of beefcake in the show. Also, did you know that the very beautiful Katheryn Winnick ("Lagertha") had started three martial arts schools by the time she was 21 years old? Edited to add that I just saw the last episode in Season 3. I was wrong -- it's only filmed in Ireland.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 15, 2015 1:12:19 GMT
I watched it out of CHOICE! That's even more amazing when you consider that Lily James made me crazy with annoyance in her part on Downton Abbey. I did disapprove of the costumes at the ball being from the Victorian era, but you can't have everything. Also, Cate Blanchett's wardrobe channels Joan Crawford, but is fun anyway. I had a Cinderella book as a child and adored the illustrations. I did not realize it then, of course, but they were taken from Fragonard paintings and made me very picky about any interpretation after that. What this particular version of Cinderella gets right are the many scenes that seem to be taken from paintings, the excellent effects with the mice, the sets, and the casting of the female roles.
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Post by tod2 on Jan 2, 2016 12:24:20 GMT
Yes, which one Bixa? We have one here but I can't think of the name just yet! We don't bother with staying up. We saw lots of rockets explode on our way home from an early dinner. Our TV showed some dangerous and frightening images of New Year in Durban the large city on the Indian Ocean. I would hate to have been there among those loonies.
We are mainly in front of the TV even during the day which never happens unless it's holidays...I love watching murder mysteries and am looking forward to the last series of Downton Abbey. One of my favourites at the moment is Shetland. For a start I adore a Scottish accent!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 2, 2016 16:52:17 GMT
while watching my beloved Australian soap opera. . . Which soap opera is that, Bixa? Yes, which one Bixa? We have one here but I can't think of the name just yet! ... We are mainly in front of the TV even during the day which never happens unless it's holidays...I love watching murder mysteries and am looking forward to the last series of Downton Abbey. One of my favourites at the moment is Shetland. For a start I adore a Scottish accent! Quoting myself below from when I began watching A Place to Call Home. Last night I watched the final episode of Season 3 -- meaning I binged through three seasons in just under a month. Really, the show should be called a "nighttime television drama" rather than a soap opera, as it has high production values, a large cast, good actors, and mostly believable situations. The intensely dramatic interrelationships, personal mysteries, and love complications are what tip it deliciously into the soap dish.Oh, thank you, thank you, Australia! Finally found something for my period drama jones. Just watched the first episode and it promises to soapishly deliver everything: secrets, grudges, romance, scandal, etc. ~
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Post by Kimby on Jan 4, 2016 3:25:16 GMT
Downtown Abbey's final season begins tonite, but we're watching the Green Bay Packers vs. the Minnesota Vikings football game instead. Guess we'll wait till we can get Downton from the library and binge-watch.
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Post by htmb on Mar 7, 2016 3:39:02 GMT
I've just watched the last episode of Downton Abbey. It was a fine ending.
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 17, 2016 10:55:17 GMT
Here in the UK, we've moved on to the second series of Happy Valley (which is, of course, anything but), which has just concluded to more or less universal praise. Committed Downton Abbey viewers may have some trouble adjusting to the characters played in this by familiar faces! ITV has also started an adaptation by Julian Fellowes (of Downton fame), of Trollope's Dr. Thorne, for those who like bonnets, furbelows and plots about marriage and wills. Not bad, and some very good acting, but oh dear, three egregious misuses of "and I" already (wrong even now, and utterly anachronistic for the 1850s), together with some other minor verbal slip-ups. I expected better. Meanwhile, the BBC's sumptuous version of Le Carré's The Night Manager continues. Not sure I buy it all, but it is fabulously stylish: BBC4's Saturday night Scandivillainy slot is now to be filled with a Danish drama called Follow The Money. We shall see. My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by tod2 on May 28, 2016 14:38:19 GMT
Watched another episode of Vera yesterday and found out that Phyllis Logan who plays Mrs Hughes in Downton Abbey did not have her broad Scottish accent! I suppose just as well because she looked every inch like Mrs. Elsie Hughes and I was trying to extricate her from the character.
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 13, 2016 12:02:54 GMT
This one is still in the future, so hardly "recent", but it may be of interest. Penelope Wilton, who played Isobel Crawley (very subtly, in my view) in Downton Abbey (and who has just been "Damed" in this year's honours list) stars in a new drama series about a group of women who are inspired to embark on a new venture in their lives after meeting at an Ann Summers party (i.e., a sales party for, ahem, personal pleasure requisites). My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 11, 2017 20:47:20 GMT
The new series of Poldark has started on the BBC. The accounts are healthy, the mine is doing well, so naturally there are dark forebodings; elsewhere, a pretty young governess has arrived - and there is galloping. Bosoms and horses' rumps are heaving all over the place. It's up against a new crime series called The Loch, which looks as though it might be a case of jumping on the bandwagon of murky doings in bleakly beautiful scenery (especially since it comes after a re-run of Vera). It stars Siobhan Finneran whom you would recognise from Downton Abbey and Happy Valley (and quite a lot of other things as well). My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by Kimby on Jul 17, 2017 12:29:03 GMT
We watched Handmaiden (not to be confused with The Handmaid's Tale). Set in Korea, this unrated period film combines elements of Downton Abbey with Behind the Green Door (the porn classic) and features a con game that keeps getting better in each of three chapters. Loved it.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 2, 2018 15:36:18 GMT
The Kimbys have been watching Woman in White, a mystery/drama in 5 parts on PBS. It’s based on a novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, and has all the elements we love in our British Isles dramas: orphaned sisters, one betrothed to an evil nobleman, a mysterious insane asylum escapee, fantastic costuming (dressing for dinner when they are already dressed up by today’s standards), palatial homes... Between Downton Abbey, Wolf Hall, The Crown, Victoria and now this, my royalty itch is being seriously scratched lately! In the link below, don’t read the Plot, unless you like spoilers... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_White_(novel)
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 29, 2019 4:54:03 GMT
So I went back a couple of pages in What is the Last Movie You Saw because I remembered some chat about the Downton Abbey movie. lugg asked me if I had seen it. Looking back I see that for whatever idiotic reason I addressed her as Bjd when answering and just now noticed it. Sorry, Lugg! I did know it was you & apparently had some kind of brain slippage. I haven't seen the Downton Abbey movie yet and yes, I know it has awful reviews. But I consider the series just wonderful entertainment and allowed myself to be emotionally manipulated by it, plus I adored the clothes. I expect the movie to fill the same bill. Anyway, back to the present ~ my neighbor said that if I was a fan of the tv series, that I should see the movie. I dialed it up on my handy-dandy laptop amd wallowed in it, dreadful directing and all. I'm laying the rather jerky flow and somewhat uncommitted acting at the door of the director, although the script writer should be locked up until he or she learns how to write conversation that sounds like people talking. Still, the whole syrupy thing, complete with pat solutions and happy endings for almost all, seduced me by the end and provided exactly the experience I wished to have.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 2, 2024 16:29:55 GMT
I was compelled to watch The Killing of the Sacred Deer again yesterday for two reasons. One was because I needed to see another movie by Yorgos Lanthimos after Poor Things. I also have the DVD of The Lobster, but I specifically needed to see Barry Keogan again after all of the controversy with Saltburn. I remembered him very clearly from Sacred Deer because he totally traumatised me with his weirdness back then and I never forgot his performance. I don't know how old he really was, but he was playing a 16 year old. And Barry Keogan in The Banshees of Innisherin was also unforgettable as the sexually molested simpleton. Anyway, I confirm that that first performance in Sacred Deer is as creepy as I remembered, even worse than his character in Saltburn. Looking a bit deeper into his biography, I saw that such roles must be easy for him since his drug addict mother died when he was 12 and then he proceeded to go to 13 different foster homes before his grandmother took him in.
Still, I hope that he progresses to more "normal" roles if he can do that. He was a sweet young teenager in Dunkirk before his tragic death at the hands of Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy being the psychotic one this time).
Lugg, if you have not seen the rest of Saltburn yet, it might intrigue you to know that the movie ends 15 years after the early events. But the Downton Abbey vibe never ends.
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