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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3986789, member: 833"] Binge watched the first season of Downton Abbey, which recently landed on Netflix. The show is reasonably entertaining, but is this really prestige television? It is very soapy. I get that the era was epitomized to silly, vapid people, but some of the "crises" are ridiculous, and seamlessly mixed in with real crises, like a major character scalitoing a man to death, or one of the servants doing something that results in the serious injury of one of the aristocrats, that I feel deserved a bit more serious reflection. The show also makes it clear which characters we are supposed to be rooting to hook up because they are the two best looking people in the show. The directors are a bit heavy handed too. The show uses some old television tropes like having a big plot line resolved in a single episode, which I only notice because prestige shows don't really do that much anymore. There are a lot of reaction shots, and we know how we are supposed to feel because of the music. Music is the new laugh track, but has greater utility because it can be used in comedies and dramas. There are many shows and movies that have covered the pre-war class system in Britain, and honestly, I think there are several examples of it being done better. Heck, Game of Thrones handled the human impact of the class system better, and that show had dragons and ice zombies. But I guess a show can repackage plotlines from the Young and the Restless and win awards if everyone wears fancy clothes and speaks British. [/QUOTE]

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