[malkee]

Haven't posted on FR in a while but this story caught my eye.

And I wondered my liberal friend didn't watch Downton Abbey, even though it's available on basic cable.

[Quick Shot]

sorry I must be oblivious, what is a “Downton Abbey?”

[TomGuy]

there is no inherent need for good TV to be left of center

Nothing makes me change the channel quicker than a tv character spouting a political or social agenda comment that has no relation to the program.

Broadcast TV needs to be watching the numbers to see what people will/want to watch. Every season, several new programs are pulled within weeks because people won't watch them. Yet, the next season, broadcasters try similar programs with their underlying political and social agendas stuck in the scripts.

[albie]

And I wondered my liberal friend didn’t watch Downton Abbey”

...and I don’t understand how a conservative can have a “liberal friend”. I had a few and I no longer associate with them. I have liberal in laws coming to town this weekend and I’ll avoid them like the plague.

When I found out my daughters piano teacher of 5 years was a lib, I fired him and told him I won’t knowingly give money to someone who supports the destruction of my country, family and income.

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[DManA]

It’s just “Dynasty” with a funny accent.

[randita]

DA ping list?

[ops33]

But the real question is, who won the cricket match, the House team or the Village team?

[mollynme]

Stories sympathetic to virtue, preservation of property and admiration of nobility and of wealth can be told beautifully and to wide audiences, and I suspect they will be more and more in the future.

One hopes so.

[GSWarrior]

Elizabeth McGovern, aka Lady Cora, fronts a country rock band. Check it out. Who knew she could sing?

[MinuteGal]

Just as many freepers knock and mock good conservative candidates for not being 100% politically "pure", so they knock and mock an intelligent, well-written show series for not being ideologically "pure".

A homosexual is portrayed in the Abbey family manor as well as an Irish marxist rebel. They are woven into the narrative in a way that you don't feel they are there for shock value.....nor leftist propaganda value. Indeed, it's just the opposite.

There are other slices of life.....a moneyed brash American relative, and a young family member involved with a married man and involved in the "shocking" new world of jazz and the beginning of the post-WW1 flapper era. Two murder mysteries are woven into the plot, and, horrors....the story line of a prostitute.

I suggest the critics of this show confine themself to Merry Melodies cartoons and Mother Goose stories if the ups and downs, good and bad of real life offend them so terribly.

Rush himself stated on the air that he's watched every episode without fail....that's good enough for me. If he was offended, he would have tuned out.

Leni

[MinuteGal]

Ping to list...

Leni/MinuteGal

[wardaddy]

Aside from the homosexual tells

It’s a wonderful show

Setting and acting

[Gritty]

My wife and I caught the first series of Downton Abbey on Netflix. We had never heard of it until some friends raved about it.

What a great show! It is entertainent TV as TV should be! No filth, no bad language, no gratutious sex or violence, no trendy adolescent plot lines for the maturity challenged, no PC nonsense. It is simply marvelous entertainment with terrific actors and great costuming!

We can't wait until they post Season Two. We check constantly for it.

[Fledermaus]

I’m surprised my left wing Porlandia parents like this show.