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LOL........I was just watching on TV "Back to the Secret Garden", when I suddenly realized that the castle looked really familiar. Its the Downton Abbey (Highclere) castle! I got confused for a minute, not knowing which show I was watching. "Back to the Secret Garden" was done in 2001. It must be a popular place for films.
Well, they will have to figure out some other way to torture him because that's the role he plays best: tortured soul.
Bumping this thread for the new season. Spoiler alert, so stop reading if you didn't see the latest episode.
So, what the ? Is this violence added because they've run out of story ideas? I'm not liking this dark turn.
I'm also p*ssed off she's starting to move on with her life wtih romance and business and not with taking care of her kid. Yea romance is really more of a priority in life that taking care of kids you brought into the @#$@ing world. Yea, yea, it's only a t.v. show .....
Trees don't grow on money
That scene shocked me and I don't know why. I'm sure it was as common then as it is now. What pissed me off was the way she needed to handle it. I'm really hoping Bates' character is smart enough figure this out, and I'm really hoping that Anna gets revenge somehow. Maybe that was the point, a shock out of left field. The author seems to enjoy those.
I haven't been watching this season, but honestly, I have to say that this show is over-rated. I've seen so many costume dramas over the past 30 years out of the UK that are so much better.
This one happens to have an original screenplay and while that is lovely, it's just not up to par with classic costume dramas based on literature.
That said, of course I will, at some point, devour all of it. I've seen season 1-3 and will watch 4 when it comes out on DVD.
More spoiler alert............
You know she'll get pregnant and will take forever to tell Bates what happened. I was a bit disappointed that it might be turning too much into the likes of U.S. daytime soaps. I hope I'm wrong.
I do think they were smart to advance 6 months after Mathew's death. I love the character that plays his mother.
I had similar thoughts.
I find it strange all the dissatisfaction cased in the context of it "turning into" an American-like soap opera. Julian Fellows has consistently said, since the start, that that was precisely what he was interested in bringing (to British television). I don't see such melodrama any differently than the machinations of O'Brien and Barrow early on - perhaps I view those even worse because they were so petty and trivial by comparison.
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