Series · ITV · 2010
Pass it on
Downton Abbey
60Watch it awake.
Service is looked at, not only worn. Soap, and still a serious house. Worth an evening.
The review
The danger of a show like this is nostalgia for a bell that other people had to answer. Downton does not entirely escape it. It does something better than most period soaps: the person with the tray has a plot that is not only gratitude. Carson, Mrs. Hughes, Daisy, Bates — they are not furniture.
Class is not redeemed because the lord is sometimes kind. The show knows that, on its good nights. Watch it for the work and the duty. Smile at the dress if you must, and do not let the dress be the lesson. A family can take it. Talk about who ate after the room was cleared.
Journal
Keep Downton Abbey in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
East of Eden
71 instead of 60
East of Eden is still a drama show, and it scores 71 instead of 60. What you gain is piety: The book underneath is a Genesis argument.
The eight
- 6Industry
A kitchen, a valet, a farm, a ledger. The day is made of tasks.
- 7Household
Marriages, a daughter who will not marry on order, a butler who is a kind of father.
- 5Piety
The chapel is there. Faith is sometimes a custom and sometimes a conscience.
- 5Courage
People tell a truth that will cost them their place.
- 6Republic
A village, a title, a war that reaches the downstairs.
- 6Temperance
It is restrained. It is also pleased to linger at the table.
- 6Truth
It tells the truth that somebody carried the tray, and gives that somebody a will.
- 7Stewardship
What it asks is what a house owes the people who keep it, and what they owe each other.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Downton Abbey · 60IMDb tt1606375
