Ann and I typically aren’t appointment TV watchers. News, House Hunters and The Daily Show/Colbert Report are about the only shows we watch religiously these days. We were also huge fans of The West Wing during its prime time run.
We’ve also become addicted to Downton Abbey, one of the series that runs on Masterpiece Classic on PBS. The First Lady is a huge Anglophile, and she says she was hooked before it even came to America from the BBC. It took me a season and a half to get there, but once I did, I enjoyed seeing how things really were (on both sides) underneath the façade, for the Crawley clan and for the downstairs staff.
I also like seeing the interactions between servants and aristocrats—seeing them speak to each other quite candidly, enlisting their aid, even seeking advice, despite the class difference. I find myself drawn to the characters. Rooting for the nice ones and hating on the evil people. Also seeing that there is a bit of yin and yang at work—that there is some good in the bad, and some bad in the good.
I’ve never been a real big soap opera guy, but I suppose this qualifies.
What's kind of a bummer is that Downton only ran for eight episodes on PBS here in the states, and the current episodes that are airing now (season 3) on the BBC won’t make it here until the first part of next year. So we’re in for a bit of a wait, and January 2013 seems like a long time away.
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