Posts tagged downton abbey
gif from dawntonabbey, via Buzzfeed’s How It Felt Watching Season 3 Of “Downton Abbey” As Told By “Downton Abbey”
Which above gif, now that I’ve had a couple of months to chew on the season finale, is at least partially expressive of how I feel about how that season ended.
Indiana Jones and the Peril of the Middle Child
Completely Unauthorized Indiana Jones/Downton Abbey Fanfic
Javier Grillo-Marxuach1.31.13
Presented with pre-emptive apologies to Julian Fellowes, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Herge, Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, David Lean, E.M. Forster,…
I finally got a chance to read this, and it is WONDERFUL.
Reblogging this so I can remember to read it later.
Hoping to prove that neither England nor PBS have a monopoly on wealthy people in corsets embroiled in soap opera scandals, NBC has drafted Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes to recreate that sort of heightened costume drama Stateside with The Gilded Age, an “epic tale of the princes of the American Renaissance, and the vast fortunes they made—and spent—in late 19th-century New York.”
America steals everything. Yes, I will watch this.
I BET YOU THEY WILL HAVE YOUNG CORA LEVINSON AS A CHARACTER AND SHE WILL BE A BUCCANEER OVER IN LONDON IN A SUBPLOT AND IT WILL BE FELLOWES VERSION OF A CARTMEL PLAN TO SNEAK THAT PREQUEL STORY INTO CANON WITHOUT ITV HAVING TO FOOT THE BILL.
Truly, if this isn’t somehow part of the Downton Abbey universe, I’ll be sad. It has to be.
(I wonder if they’ll manage to do for, say, the rise of organized labor in the US what they did for the Troubles in Ireland.)
I nearly fell off the couch laughing at this line. Which meant I missed Bates’s cheeky little smirk at the end there.
(via branaghing)
Via Tom and Lorenzo, Dan Stevens wearing That Men’s Collection from Prada. (You know the one.)
I was thinking earlier that Dan Stevens doesn’t really photograph well, despite being entirely watchable on film. Looks like someone figured out how to fix that problem.
More of this pictorial of the men of Downton Abbey here, including Hugh Bonneville looking kind of adorable.
Since Downton Abbey S3 is airing in the UK and some people have found ways to watch it here, it seemed time to drag this one out of the vaults again.
“And he’s got three daughters: Hot, Way Hot, aaaaaaaand The Other One.”
“Nice Guy, Mean Guy, Mouse Girl, and Super Bitch!”
I thought this was a pretty good roundup on the appeal of Downton Abbey, and I particularly like this observation:
As oppressive as I manage it would be to live under such rigid social and moral codes, I still can’t help but be drawn to the idea of a common decency. Like I previously mentioned, one of the things that prevents Downton from becoming your average upstairs/downstairs tale is the level of intimacy between the characters, and the sense that there is a pervasive deference to fairness.
That “pervasive deference to fairness” may well be the most fantastical thing about the whole show, but that—in addition to it being so superbly acted—is why it’s such a delightful bit of escapist TV.
Sophie McShera of Downton Abbey, in character as Daisy, and in a civilian-clothes photoshoot. From Papermag’s gallery of Downton Abbey characters in and out of costume.
Some of these are real shocks. Siobhan Finneran (O’Brien) and Phyllis Logan (Mrs Hughes) are the big ones, and right up there as well is Jim Carter (Carson), not so much because he looks different as, well—you’ll see.
Somewhere, at this very moment in time, this actual multi-chapter, 10,000-word fanfic is being written.
(via chicklittumbls)
