Anyone fancy a general Downton Abbey chat?

[BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz]

I'm rewatching at the moment and have so many thoughts about it but no one I know really watches it.

I love the house, it's on my list of places to go if I'm ever in the area. I do wonder how much of it there is we don't see in the show.

I always wonder about the relationship between upstairs and dow stairs generally, and how much artistic license is used to make the Crawleys seem nicer.
Would they really pay for their cooks cataracts operation? And fund their valets legal fees? I'd like to think so.

I'm reminded in the early episodes how cruel Edith and Mary are to one another yet they do a great job of developing Edith into such a likeable person. Furious they killed off Sybil but I love the version of Tom we get after her death.

It will be on ITV hub as well. As ITv3 are currently showing it. Around 5-6pm

Yes, that’s Andrew. Laura Carmichael who plays Edith is gorgeous in real life. They really do make her look frumpy in the first season.

Sad that it’s leaving Netflix. It was on Prime too. Not sure if it still is. Going to have to buy them all now. I’ve watched it so many times but still love it. We visited highclere too and it was lovely but the other poster was right, it does seem so much smaller than on TV.

O' Brien, played by the wonderful Siobhan Finneran.

Bumping this cus I'm on a rewatch! I love it! ❤️

Annoyed Netflixs won't have it in future, every now and then I go back and rewatch the whole lot. Maggie Smith is just fabulous as the Dowager, her restrained but obvious grief when Sybil dies always gets me