Michelle Dockery & Dan Stevens for Evening Standard Magazine

So, just to say, this makala is not mine, all the credit goes to MarlyK from Basket of Kisses here:
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Mathew Crawley and his Mum, Isobel, ride in one of those gorgeous cars that had to be hand-cranked. Matthew looks cranky. He is. You, too, would be in a foul mood if you’d been told wewe were about to inherit a beautiful castle, a large fortune, a title, and a household of servants to wait on wewe hand and foot. Isobel, his momma, chides him, “There’s no legal mechanism for wewe to refuse it. When wewe inherit, wewe can throw it away!” What else is an inheritance for, anyway?
Things get...

"DOWNTON ABBEY" – Series Three (2012) Retrospective

It took me a while to get around watching Series Three of "DOWNTON ABBEY". I had been inclined to watch it, while it aired on PBS last winter. But in the end, I decided to wait until the DVD release was offered through Netflix.

I suspect that some of my reluctance to watch the show's Series Three could be traced to my major disappointment over the lackluster Series Two. In fact, a part of me is amazed that the series' shoddy look at World War I could end up with an Emmy nomination for Best Drama. But I figured that series creator, Julian...