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Downton Abbey Season 3 Starts Tonight (PBS Masterpiece Theater)
PBS ^ | 1/6/13 | randita

Posted on 01/06/2013 1:57:11 PM PST by randita

The war is over, but intrigue, crisis, romance, and change still grip the beloved estate in the thrilling new season of Downton Abbey. Written and created by Julian Fellowes, with its all-star returning cast and Oscar-winning guest star Shirley MacLaine, Downton Abbey, Season 3 premieres January 6, 2013 on Masterpiece classic!

Post comments and predictions, please.


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To: randita
Gosh, I am totally flummoxed. I only knew her from her Downton charachter.

She was an awfully naughty girl the past few episodes.(which now may explain my attraction....)

101 posted on 02/11/2013 3:07:40 PM PST by llevrok (Unlike Obama, at least Nero could play a fiddle.)
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To: Intolerant in NJ
and the best exchange of the evening

A close second was when it was decided to make Tom the estate's agent and the Dowager said, "Yes. And then we can call him Branson again."

Maggie Smith rocks!

102 posted on 02/11/2013 3:13:22 PM PST by llevrok (Unlike Obama, at least Nero could play a fiddle.)
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To: FrdmLvr

“Depending on how many years this saga covers, the child will probably grow up to become a solicitor who will be appointed to the bench and will one day sit in judgement of Ethel, who went back to the streets as a prostitute, having failed as a cook and maid, and unbeknownst to him that she is his mother, he will throw her in prison in the effort to rid the lower classes of the scourge of prostitution.”

Hey, I love your storyline. Incredibly imaginative. You should be a writer on the series.


103 posted on 02/12/2013 2:26:24 AM PST by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: randita

Just goes to show what good makeup and hair can- and can’t!- do....


104 posted on 02/12/2013 6:08:13 AM PST by Eepsy
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To: FrdmLvr

HAH! The screenwriters borrow liberally from Charles Dickens. I hope they are paying royalties to Dickens’ descendants.


105 posted on 02/12/2013 1:52:24 PM PST by miserare
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To: bert

You guys are cracking me up.


106 posted on 02/12/2013 1:53:24 PM PST by miserare
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Pish-tosh! Maggie was phoning in her lines this week. Even she is tired of this old crock of a series.

And no wonder...look at who the bossman is...Julian Fellowes. (or is it Julian Fellatio?)


107 posted on 02/12/2013 1:56:57 PM PST by miserare
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To: FrdmLvr

“Having failed as a cook”...that would describe 99% of today’s American women.


108 posted on 02/12/2013 1:59:24 PM PST by miserare
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To: miserare

If you have major problems with all entertainment with which gays are involved, you must live a very drab life......


110 posted on 02/12/2013 9:47:28 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: randita; flaglady47; mickie; libbylu; Intolerant in NJ; Liberty Valence; TomGuy; higgmeister; ...
Heads up, m'lords and m'ladies.....final night tonight, alas and alack.

I'm going to have a little essay on Shirley McClain and her appearance on Downton Abbey on this thread sometime this coming week. A week's bout in the hospital with pneumonia has clipped my wings a little. But I''m carrying on in the best British stiff-upper-lip tradition, LOL.

Also, don't forget to bookmark this thread if you haven't as yet because I'm sure there'll be scads of critiques coming up on tonight's final episode.

Enjoy your evening, my dear friends.

Rule Britannia.....where there'll always be a Freepershire....

Leni

111 posted on 02/17/2013 3:00:11 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: llevrok

She is when she lets her hair down—literally. Just google her.


112 posted on 02/17/2013 3:17:44 PM PST by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: randita

I predict that Rose will be back.


113 posted on 02/17/2013 3:20:20 PM PST by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: MinuteGal

Please get well, that’s nasty stuff!


114 posted on 02/17/2013 3:26:34 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Thanks for your well wishes, Slim.

Enjoy the show tonight as will I.

Leni

115 posted on 02/17/2013 3:32:43 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: MinuteGal
It;s going to be a long haul until Downton comes back. We are visiting Blighty ths coming September. I just hope his Lordship has the guest rooms ready.
116 posted on 02/17/2013 4:50:39 PM PST by llevrok (Keep your arms out. ItÂ’ll make it harder for them to throw a net over you.)
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To: MinuteGal
Remember and set DVD's accordingly: Tonight's episode is 2 hours.

Check local listings for exact time.
117 posted on 02/17/2013 4:56:03 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy

I thought it was weird how they fast forwarded Mary’s Pregnancy. Last week she wasn’t pregnant. This week she gives birth.

And then the ending happened....Downton had to have the heir.


118 posted on 02/17/2013 7:52:23 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick
I thought it was weird how they fast forwarded Mary’s Pregnancy...the one criticism I have of the show - it's too slapdash too many times - the patriarch loses all his money in a bad investment, and all of a sudden Matthew inherits another fortune from some guy we never heard of before who just happens to die at the right time, and all is well again - a few too many coincidences and ontrivances at times - but not enough to make me not want a fast forward to season four.......
119 posted on 02/17/2013 9:06:57 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Well, now that Matthew is a goner, who will Mary end up with? And Tom, the Irish renegade, now running the estate, who will he end up with, the flapper girl, daughter of Scottish aristocracy who is coming to live with the Earl and Lady Grantham? Will they end up a twosome? Or, very outside chance, would Mary with her new baby, heir to the Estate, and Tom, with his baby by Sybil, both join the lonely hearts club band and end up together? Or will Mary have a new romance or remain forever true to Matthew’s memory? And will Anna end up preggers by Bates? And will the old Doc and Mrs. Crawley end up together? Will Thomas have unrequited love for Jimmy forever, as they become best bud’s. And is Ethel now a goner or will she come back in some further episode? So many loose ends, so little time.... But Carson and Mrs. Hughes will keep it all together, the glue of Downton Abbey.


120 posted on 02/17/2013 9:27:38 PM PST by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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