Surely you don't mean to suggest that at any point from the first episode on,
Downton Abby was anything more than a colorful and somewhat quirky soap opera,
mostly devoid of anything approaching the reality of the British class system
as practiced at the time? It was dumbed down from the get go.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Dec 7, 2013, at 1:41 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> There are way too many British programmes which go that way, Andrew. Downton
> Abbey is just such.
>
> Chris
>
> On 5 Dec 13, at 21:38, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> There is a theory that it was dumbed down and blanded out because they
>> wanted to sell it to the US - but I'm far too polite to suggest such a thing!
>
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