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Originally Posted by JoeD
Having just watched the 2nd series of Downton Abbey (first was more enjoyable imo), I'm now wondering if there any books along the same lines? Either "classics" or more recently written.
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Well, I found it difficult to believe both series were written by the same author, frankly.
I thought I had Julian Fellows pretty well tagged as an intelligent writer and actor - you don't usually get Oscars and piles of awards for writing tosh, unless it's good, high-class tosh, naturally....
And the first series was, I thought, high-class, intelligent, well written,very enjoyable tosh, and led to the odd tussle for the remote and control of the Humax.
But the second series is just plain tosh.
And the trend has even extended to the actors, all of whom seem to have attended a course on the Art of Coarse Acting since the first tranche.
( Except Dame Maggie, of course, who long ago perfected imbueing ham and tosh with enough skill and pleasure for her to can play rubbish to me any day.and it'll still be better than many other actors can deliver Shakespeare.)
Of course, the actors are not served with much opportunity to deliveer anything but ham, considering many of the lines and situations they've been lumbered with.
It's got to the stage now where I'm loathe to miss it, because of the awful inevitability of it all !
Oh, alas and alack, how standars fell after the First War........
