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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I stopped watching about 15 minutes in.  I think the show should have stopped running a season or two ago.

First of all, I just couldn't get into, "OMG, Lady Grantham will have no one to dress her, the horror!!!"  But whatever, perhaps that was a crisis in 1920's upper class England.

But beyond that, there simply would not have been the interaction or personal relationships between the help and the nobility in that time period in England.

And for PPs who will say "but those people worked in their homes for X years, of course, they got to know them," you don't know anything about British upper class culture then or now.

So, as a period piece, it fails on so many levels.

There's very little character development.  I mean, most of the characters are pretty much the same with the same problems as they were first season.  Even the estate has the same problem:  Who will run it?  It's like there's no real story arc, just kind of an eternal return to the same themes.

I don't know if I'll continue with it.  I think it should have been just a 1 or 2 season show.

Flame away![/quote]

You know, I think it was originally intended to run one season. It was so successful that the network asked for more.[/quote]

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