<p>I’m a sucker for these British period pieces…good writing or bad! i think its the costumes and settings. If anyone hasn’t visited the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC and you love this kind of drama, you really need to make a visit. The downstairs servants/kitchen area is reproduced in period detail as is the “upstairs” and it makes you feel like you are in the middle of one of the dramas!
I’ve read that Jean Marsh had a stroke and won’t be able to film the next season of the Upstairs/Downstairs remake.</p>
<p>Thanks for the links on page 1. Didn’t know where to go get second season. DD rolled her eyes when she saw what I was watching on the computer :D</p>
<p>ihs76- Where are you watching the second season ? What link?</p>
<p>Bleh, season 2 has been really quite disappointing.</p>
<p>SJCM: per post #5, I’m going through</p>
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<p>You have to click through ‘search links’ and it redirects to sites where you can watch it. I found it’ll let you watch 72 minutes before turning you off for a while. Where there’s a will, there’s a way :D</p>
<p>Hear yee, hear yee. Downton Abbey JUST started on pbs. Series 2.</p>
<p>Enjoy Season 2! It is crazy thing.</p>
<p>you’ll get that feeling/when you’re sipping darjeeling/with a lemon scone…/DOWN-TON!</p>
<p>West Coast here, very excited for Season 2. I just finished Season 1 on netflix streaming…I found it very addictive. Like a soap opera but more classy and socially acceptable, after all it’s PBS :)</p>
<p>Just watched first episode of Season 2. Love it!</p>
<p>It was wonderful!! Why can’t we have more television like this? I love Masterpiece Theater, and I love PBS.</p>
<p>2 Hours flew by so fast last night.
Question-could someone provide the backstory about the “butler” who is courting Anna now, and claimed to honestly have a lung condition. Is it true that he is ill? </p>
<p>And, I forgot what happened with Mary and Matthew</p>
<p>Also, Maggie Smith is stunning to watch in each and every scene. The fashions are just amazing!</p>
<p>So glad to see this thread. I’m a newbie to DA. DH and I watched Downtown Abbey last night for the first time. We really enjoyed it. We both read Ken Follet’s Fall of Giants last year. DA reminded us of the book. Can I watch Season 1 online anywhere? I kept mentioning to DH that their home looked like Biltmore. Were parts filmed at Biltmore? </p>
<p>I got the impression that the butler’s lung condition was more of an excuse to avoid the war than an actual condition but since I was watching for the first time, I could be totally wrong.</p>
<p>I watched DA, season 1 on Netflix, in November, Packmom.
While waiting for Season 2 to begin, I discovered Mad Men, on Netflix and watched all four seasons in a week. </p>
<p>It’s shocking to me to think that DA occurs 1918 and forty-fifty years later Mad Men in the 60’s. Life in aristocratic England early 1900’s and JUST two generations later life in the 60’s.</p>
<p>Dare I tell you all that the Christmas Special has been uploaded to YouTube? It is one big spoiler so you DO NOT want to watch it unless you can handle the season being wrapped up plot-wise. Search for Downton Abbey Christmas Special 2011.</p>
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I thought the same thing at the time. </p>
<p>Still, put ladies in big hats and sweeping skirts and I will be sucked in every time. :)</p>
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<p>Molesley was sent by the Granthams to be butler/valet to the Crawleys when they first arrived at Downton. He isn’t ill, he just doesn’t want to go to war. </p>
<p>One of the things I like about DA is that some of the characters are turning out to be more complex than they initially seemed. Who knew that O’Brien had a heart (when she talks to Lang about her brother having shell-shock), or that Thomas would actually weep for someone?</p>
<p>Sorry to be the lone dissenter, but H and I settled in last night to watch the beginning of Season II, and I had to leave after 45 minutes. Too obvious, too kitschy, too soap opera. I liked the first season (but didn’t love it). Now it’s trying to appeal to Miss Marple fans. Sorry</p>
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<p>To each his own. </p>
<p>I loved it. I stayed up until 11 watching it . . . I NEVER make it through 10:00 shows! It IS a bit more soapy than season one but that’s ok by me.</p>
<p>I love this show…what a joy to see Elizabeth McGovern after all these years, too. Had to DVR last night, I will be watching later!!</p>
<p>I took the “which character are you” quiz at the pbs website. I am the dowager! ha ha</p>
<p>With One Life to Live ending this Friday, happy to see DA back…I too NEVER stay up for the 10-11 hour on most weeknights; last night flew by…</p>
<p>I did forget alot of what happened on season 1 but like any soap, you could pick it up pretty quickly…</p>
<p>The whole Facebook/twitter pop ups during the show were a little weird with it being a period drama…but all good…</p>