Thread: Downton Abbey
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Old 07-11-2011, 09:14   #70
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Re: Downton Abbey

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Originally Posted by garinda View Post
Apparently it took His Serene Royal Highness Archduke Julian Fellowes something like seventeen years to write, and perfect, the first series of Downton.

Because it was such a ratings hit last year, he wrote the whole second series in seven weeks.

It shows.

Still a great cast of actors, fine locations, and well observed period detail, but the storyline, and the writing stank.

I didn't even care enough to watch to the end.

I switched over and watched TOWIE.

Much more gritty realism.

It did decline very rapidly in the 2nd series - it must have been really bad to switch over though- what a shame...
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