MEAN and MASSIVE

SEB: downton abbey series 2 spoilers I gave you so far my reviews for the first four episodes of the first series of Downton Abbey. The Crawley family and their staff filled my early summer evenings with good amount of English drama, secret passions and lots of intrigues. However, with the new shows on the [...]

SEB: downton abbey s01e04, 104 episode review I thought the fourth episode of the series was somehow the weakest, focusing mainly on the crew without any major dramatic event. I still enjoyed it, there’s nothing like conspiracies in the staff chambers to warm my heart, but still – if there’s a typical “second act” moment, [...]

SEB: tca awards nominees Later this summer we will hear what the Television Critics Association loved most this year. This year’s TCA Awards would be hosted by Parks and Recreation‘s Ron Swanson – Nick Offerman (so no matter what the critics chose, it’s going to be a hell of an event). A group of around [...]

SEB: downton abbey s01e03 review Downton Abbey continues to fill my evenings with sophisticated English humor. This time we took a break from most money matters, to focus on a beautiful stranger that entered the estate and got Mary’s full attention. But Lady Mary was not the only one to want play with the Turkish [...]

SEB: downton abbey s01e02 review Continuing my reviews marathon with British period drama Downton Abbey (ITV). The second episode was slightly different in tone I thought, funny at times (English humor that works very good for me on summer nights), and with Violet Crawley becoming a true aristocrat bitch. On this second episode, following the [...]

Downton Abbey takes us long, long time back. Perhaps not so long back (1912 was just a century ago), but enough that everything seems estranged at first. The show’s creator Julian Fellowes made a clever decision, to place the sink of the Titanic as the story catalyst, and to place it in the very beginning [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m trying to improvise and find new shows to watch and cover until the Summer Schedule is in full gear (end of June, more or less). I’ve started with Angry Boys, and now I’m adding a special marathon for the award-winning British period drama, Downton Abbey. The series has received mostly [...]