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Julian Fellowes Presents Downton Abbey II: Just kidding: Doctor Thorne.
Slate ^ | May 20, 2016 | Willa Paskin

Posted on 05/20/2016 8:39:13 AM PDT by C19fan

Downton Abbey just finished its six-season run two months ago, but if you have been fiending for British accents, period costumes, poorly managed hereditary estates, class tensions, love stories revolving around a young woman named Mary, and the nostalgic eye of Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, here comes Julian Fellowes Presents Doctor Thorne. The miniseries, adapted from an Anthony Trollope novel, arrives on Amazon on Friday, having aired earlier this year in the U.K. under the simple title Doctor Thorne. For its move to America, the show has put on airs. These airs reflect Amazon’s ambitions, ones that will perhaps last only for the duration of this series, to challenge PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre. In a rumble between Masterpiece Theatre and one Amazon costume drama perhaps a lone cravat would be mussed, but Amazon’s usurper intentions, however fitfully meant, are a more interesting illustration of the relentlessness of change—an obsession of Fellowes’—than Doctor Thorne, a perfectly serviceable, occasionally adorable, utterly predictable period drama.

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: drthorne; julianfellowes; period; trollope; tvprograms; victorian
As a FYI, Prince Harry's ex-WAG Cressida Bonas appears in this period piece.
1 posted on 05/20/2016 8:39:13 AM PDT by C19fan
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Prince Harry is looking more and more like Mark Steyn.


2 posted on 05/20/2016 8:40:15 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("We like us the way we are. That makes us real, true friends." ~ The Undead Thread)
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Looks like a winner to me. The wifey will love it.

Doctor Thorne Trailer on YouTube

Doctor Thorne Search on YouTube

3 posted on 05/20/2016 8:49:06 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Still a Cruz Fan but voting for Trump)
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PBS discovers the soap opera...


4 posted on 05/20/2016 8:58:38 AM PDT by 556x45
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“Looks like a winner to me. The wifey will love it. “

So will I.:-)

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5 posted on 05/20/2016 9:01:24 AM PDT by Mears
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How I loved and miss ‘Downton Abby’- and ‘Mr. Selfridge’.

‘Masterpiece Classics’ are the best.


6 posted on 05/20/2016 9:10:22 AM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan (girl type) ANGRY? REFUSE TO VOTE? HELLO HILLARY!!!)
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I have it in my AmazonPrime queue, but I haven’t watched it yet.


7 posted on 05/20/2016 9:20:14 AM PDT by TomGuy
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I think stuff like this, you either love it or can’t stand it.


8 posted on 05/20/2016 9:35:46 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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How I loved and miss ‘Downton Abby’- and ‘Mr. Selfridge’.

I'm not impressed by Selfridge but Downton was outstanding.However,I think in terms of quality of acting and writing Upstairs/Downstairs was better despite their paltry budget resulting in sets,etc being a bit "drab".

9 posted on 05/20/2016 9:40:31 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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Never watched ‘Upstairs,Downstairs’. Only discovered Masterpiece Classics when I began to hear so much about ‘Downton Abby’
As for ‘Selfridge’, I guess I liked it so because of Jeremy Piven, whom I loved on that HBO series..forgot the name- something ‘Posse’?


10 posted on 05/20/2016 10:10:58 AM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan (girl type) ANGRY? REFUSE TO VOTE? HELLO HILLARY!!!)
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Oooo I will love it.
Love period costume dramas and the architecture.
Loved, loved, loved the clothes in Downton Abbey, even if the story got a bit old after awhile.


11 posted on 05/20/2016 10:19:40 AM PDT by Lorianne
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I love Doc Martin. Selfridge, having hard time getting into and no replacement for Downton Abbey.


12 posted on 05/20/2016 10:35:17 AM PDT by Engedi
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Never watched ‘Upstairs,Downstairs’

OK...FYI...if you liked Downton (which I *certainly* did) you'll love Upstairs/Downtairs.But be warned,it features about 50 episodes so be prepared to spend some time in front of the TV.And fear not,it's popular enough so that any public library worth its name would have all the DVDs so you need not buy anything.

13 posted on 05/20/2016 12:29:47 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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Thanks. I’ve heard a lot of complimentary things about ‘Upstairs Downstairs’. Think I’ll try watching.

‘Entourage’ is the HBO show I was trying to think of where I learned to love Jeremy Piven. (Star of ‘Mr. Selfridge.’)


14 posted on 05/20/2016 8:47:10 PM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan (girl type) ANGRY? REFUSE TO VOTE? HELLO HILLARY!!!)
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