Downton Abbey

Jacey that is a brilliant idea!! Please, please, please Gransnet will you ask him? Please???

Tonlght's scene where her young ladyship was given advice by the butler in bed in his pyjamas just took the biscuit. Mr Hudson must be spinning in his grave at the impropriety.

Well, that's it; not going to watch the rest of the series on the telly - I am just going to have to wait until the DVD set is out. I can't stand the adverts any longer, it spoilt the whole episode last night. Here north of the border, we don't have Aviva but an appalling thing advertising Jet2. I don't think I shall be missing much anyway - hrrrrumph - butlers in pyjamas buttoned up to the neck

So glad to have found so many others who think DA is twaddle! Thought I was the only one. Such a relief! And is JF "up himself"? Oh, yes.

Never thought I'd say this, but i think I'm going 'orf' it! Too many improbable scenes.... that tree stump was never an apple tree! WW1 injured look far too healthy ( apart from the 'injuries') there must be thousands of thin 'extras' about! In fact, the WW1 'stuff' has become far too cliched ( is that a word?)

Oh dear it looks as if I'm the only person who thinks it's a load of rubbish - having seen Gosforth Park, also written by Julian Fellowes, this is just the same only weeks longer. The wonderful Maggie Smith is camping it up wonderfully - it doesn't show how hard servants' lives were, some of the language used is fat too modern etc etc. I daresay I'll get a barrage of adverse comments, but as a history buff I find a lot of film drama of past times completely incorrect. The recent Henry Tudor was so off the real story that it was laughable.

Oh dear, this second series really seems to have gone downhill. I was so looking forward to it and I'm disappointed

It isn't really very good this time, is it? Seems to have lost the way. As dorset commented, Maggie Smith is doing a fine job, and I'll keep watching if only to see her. Awful 'layout' for the trenches, too.

I watched a bit of DA for the first time last night having heard so much about it and I'm afraid I found it, dare I say it? - BORING. It was all so obvious. I find hyped up films affect me in the same way. No, I won't be watching it again. Perhaps I watched too much Upstairs Downstairs in my 'yoof'.

dorsetpennt, you're def not alone - we seem to be enabling the "No" brigade to come out and be honest! I'm one of them.

I cringe even at the trailers which are enough to put me off.

Do you realise that this is the second woman Brendan has left in the lurch. In Larkrise, he left his wife allegedly to get work, as we now know was Downton Abbey. Is his current love aware of all the kids he left behind at Larkrise. If I were her I would shoot his good leg.

DA doesn't appeal to me. Just a bit too good to be true...and, whilst I'm having a full-blown moan, I would sooner clean a disgustingly dirty oven [not hat I have one] than tune into Strictly, Big Brother, or any other cringingly awful "reality show"...

supernana, I'm with you there! Although my oven is a bit on the mucky side...!

I've only just realised he was the one from Lark Rise.He has put weight on, hasn't he! I went off that when it became too formulaic [SP]and moralistic. Missed last weeks Downton Abbey due to being en vacances. When is The Killing coming back?

Crimson you didn't miss much last week, I really don't know why I am still watching it. It seems to be getting daftier by the minute. Now The Killing is something else, I think but might be wrong, it could be (hopefully) this year, whats left of it. They seem to be treading water on BBC4, what with the lst series of Spiral, which I love, then an episode of the cute Italian detective, tomorrow an episode of Wallander (different chappie) so it looks like they are building upto something. Well thats my impression anyway.

I gave up last week and watched Spooks instead. Really can't be doing with all the adverts - they drive me nuts

We spent the weekend in Paris police watching, giggling to ourselves as we walked past their vans at night saying to each other 'we know what you're really up to..we watch Spiral'.

Anybody watch it last night, I did. There was some tremendous highlights in this continuing drama. The eldest daughter was singing to the injured soldiers,beautiful voice, and who should walk in Mathew the missing soldier and they sang a duet, I collapsed in tears, tears of laughter, absolutely great. Mathew the big love interest, obviously has most weekends free, makes a quick dash home to the UK from France. The poor maid who was caught in bed with the villaneous Major, the one with the big bushy moustache, and the ending scene was her returning to Downton pregnant. I loved it all, best comedy on the television at the moment, its a laugh a minute.

.... and all this in the space of one episode!
..... and who told the 'downstairs' staff about the missing soldiers, or did I drop off for that bit?
.....and was it the quickest conception on record?
I know it's only fiction and the bounds of reality will be stretched BUT.....[sceptical]

Sorry !

How about getting the villainous Major cashiered? Or will it be the usual story of the girl who pays?

love Maggie Smith in this, she is brilliant, so natural and not a face lift in sight.

It's getting sillier by the minute! The maid is caught with the major, sent away and returned within a matter of a day or so announcing her pregnancy! The two missing soldiers return without so much as a scratch looking as cheerful as all-get-out, when they would have seen horrendous and horrifying things over the channel......seems as if Master Julian has been reading one of the 'penny-novelettes' left lying around by that lot below stairs!