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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Sunday, January 08, 2012 - 11:29 am 
I know there are a lot of fans of this show--new season starts this evening on PBS. 
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, January 08, 2012 - 12:22 pm
Loved the first season...I hope it holds up.
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Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Sunday, January 08, 2012 - 2:35 pm
I've been waiting for this as well. I really enjoyed Season 1.
(Doc Martin Season 1 started on PBS Saturday. I've seen season 3,4 and 5 just started on a Cdn channel, but I had never seen the first couple of seasons. I really like that show as well.)
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-16-2003
| Sunday, January 08, 2012 - 5:31 pm
if anyone else is in canada, be aware its on a few times. Here it repeats at 3am on Friday night.'
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Roteach
Member
06-01-2003
| Sunday, January 08, 2012 - 6:35 pm
Here in Boston they run the same episode back to back on Sunday night. Good thing as I don't get to the upstairs TV to see it until after 10. Does PBS have the episodes up for viewing later in the week in case I am too tired to stay up?
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Reenie
Member
06-24-2006
| Sunday, January 08, 2012 - 7:11 pm
I am crushed. I have DISHTV and for some reason, PBS here has not renewed their contract.
 WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Irsnappy
Member
01-13-2009
| Sunday, January 08, 2012 - 9:04 pm
Oh my goodness I absolutely loved this episode....sooooo much drama!!!!!! There were so many cast members that I wanted to give a shake to.....
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, January 08, 2012 - 9:19 pm
I can't wait!
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Marameko
Member
07-14-2002
| Monday, January 09, 2012 - 5:42 am
I love everything this show........even the music is beautiful.
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Lycanthrope
Member
09-19-2002
| Monday, January 09, 2012 - 7:33 am
I'd never even heard of this show until they mentioned it on the latest episode of Chuck. Then I come here and find it's got a pretty big following. Probably go grab this on DVD this week.
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Roteach
Member
06-01-2003
| Monday, January 09, 2012 - 8:11 am
I missed the beginning of it but the part that I saw was wonderful as always.
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Monday, January 09, 2012 - 8:56 am
So far, IMO, Season 2 is at least as good as Season 1.
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Roteach
Member
06-01-2003
| Monday, January 09, 2012 - 12:18 pm
Season 2 has gotten a lot of good press in the Boston Globe. That's a very good thing.
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Daydreamer
Member
05-30-2008
| Monday, January 09, 2012 - 12:39 pm
Reenie, don't depair; Amazon.com currently reflects that the DVD of Season 2 will be released on February 7, 2012 -- before PBS even finishes broadcasting Season 2.
(That's probably because Season 2 already aired in the U.K. between September and November, 2011.)
Also, Wikipedia reports that a third season already has been comissioned, and will air in September, 2012 -- which probably means Season 3 will air in the U.K. in September, and in the U.S. a year from now.
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Reenie
Member
06-24-2006
| Monday, January 09, 2012 - 4:02 pm
Daydreamer - thank you so much for that info!
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Monday, January 09, 2012 - 4:44 pm
I was a bit disappointed with last nights episode. There were parts that I thought dragged, although, overall I'm glad it's back.
I think I missed Bates in the 2nd half of the episode most of all. I do not like Thomas and did not watching the war scenes at all, probably because of their realism. I love Matthew and Lady Mary storyline. It's so British in nature.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Monday, January 09, 2012 - 5:05 pm
I find the actress who plays Lady Sybil to be stunningly beautiful. Nice girl too, in the series. I enjoy the cattiness between Lady Mary and her sister Edith. They are terrible to each other! Much more so last season.
I enjoy the "downstairs" action a bit more than the upstairs. The servants have interesting lives.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Monday, January 09, 2012 - 5:43 pm
Lady Sybil is the youngest one right? Both her and Mary are really pretty. When Mary is in the scene, I notice her more than anyone else.
The servants are very manipulative of the people upstairs ! They know how to get what they want.
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Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Monday, January 09, 2012 - 6:05 pm
Enjoyed every minute of it. The scenery, the settings, the music, the stories. I will miss Mr Bates though. Poor Anna, his wife was a piece of work.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, January 09, 2012 - 7:17 pm
I hope Mr Bates comes back! If that was his exit from the show it was too swift, I'm hoping there's more to the story, especially now the main guy knows he was protecting Mary's honour.
I find the war scenes very hard to watch too, even the talk about it. They all seemed so noble and brave then. I know people are still going through similar things nowadays but somehow then death seemed so inevitable. Stiff upper lip or no stiff upper lip, I'm not sure I could send a loved one off to war and not be a complete wreck 24/7.
And very touching stories about those who wanted to go to war and couldn't, and those who didn't and worked out ways around it.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 4:31 pm
I kept hoping Bates would strangle his wife and get away with it. I'm pretty sure Bates is going to be back after his wife meets with a tragic 'accident'. I hope.
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Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 5:02 pm
Yes OG, perhaps during a bombing raid...awful thought but she didn't appear to have any redeeming qualities.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 5:18 pm
I've forgotten, where did Bates get any money?
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Daydreamer
Member
05-30-2008
| Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 5:31 pm
Bates's mother died; old Mrs. Bates owned her own home in London, and he inherited that house.
(We had seen that house when Anna (who had accompanied the cook to London for the cook's eye surgery), visited Mrs. Bates, and thereby learned how Bates pretended to be the thief of his regiment's silver, to preserve his wife's honor.)
When Bates "proposed" to Anna he had suggested that they might rent that house for a while, then eventually sell it, leave Downton Abbey, and buy a B&B they would run.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 8:59 am
Thanks, DD, I'd forgotten all that.
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