Upstairs Downstairs - some questions for you

[lowlandlady]

why do most of the leading men, Lord wotsit, prince of wales, lustful yank - all look so similar?
No disrespect but is Ed Stoppard's mouth slightly obscenely full o' the lip.
Is the lady of the house not as pretty as that maid?
Does the lady of the house have two expressions? Smiling and smiling with a grimace?

SHE IS A BLOODY GERMAN SPY!!

I gave up on this last week.

Am I the only person on mn watching this? It's brilliant.

Best episode so far. Watch it on iplayer.

I've lost track. Where is Lady A in this episode?

Gone to her family on pre text scared of bombing but actually left him. Doesn't know about him and Percy yet b

Actually I loved this,and I say this as an obvious fan of the original

am enjoying this despite its faults.
it does some things well, it seems beautifully shot.

dirty nasty poisonous Percy!

There are some good things about it, agree about costumes, lighting and sets but there's a bit of a problem with some of the characters and the plotting is uneven.

The character of Hallam is awful. His apparent prescience and judgement over appeasement is undermined rather by the fact that he thinks lady P is brave and honest (ahem) and leaves drawers full of state secrets open. He's having anaffair with his wife's sister but won't let his wife model stockings. I really think Ed Stoppard's acting is wooden too.

It's an enormous mess but dd1 and I do love it. I agree Hallam is awful - as a character and as a portrayal. I keep waiting for the Duke of K to make a pass at him - notably bisexual as he was.
Who do we think is on the stretcher? Lady Perce topped herself?

I know, the atmosphere of Hallam and the Duke is almost Derek Jarman in its depth of homosexual frisson! That shot of them in chairs looking at the ceiling wtf? Is the director taking lcd every other day?

The plotting is bizarre but still, it is watchable, but you can't help but think this is drama by committee, that loads of big wigs in the bbc stuck their oars in despite knowing not a thing about drama other than the viewing figures for Downton.
I wonder if Stoppard is just hamstring by the oddnesss and uneveness of the whole production and the inconsistency of his character, it is all over the place and he's trying to make sense of that with his face while trying to convey the enormous stiff upper lip etcetc
The other problem is his wife comes across as a total mannekin (?) and percy though no Maggie Smith, is certainly less moribund than er indoors so you kind of understand his nobbing her.

dh totally sympathises with it as he thinks percy is evil but foxy.
dh also has got really bad romolagaraitis since seeing her in a film the other night. she is unacceptably lovely isn't she. cow.

I'd hoped it was the butler drowned in a sea of vomit and cowardice or maybe strangled by one of his piles, but we are not so lucky.

I think it will be the butler. Would they bring a dead servant out of the front door? I suppose they would.

Unfortunately chubfuddler, it can't be the butler because in the trailer for next week he was peering irritatingly round a door in a cowardly way!

It has to be La Strumpet Percy, or maybe the pretty maid?

chubfudd, I just got that, bit slow.
No it'd have to be up the back passage.

Hallam then. And then lady A marries that lovely American bloke.

do you think the chauffer and Hallam will get in an ugly blackmail naked tussel with homoerotic undertones that ends in tragedy n' murder most foul?

Ooh I do hope so. Perhaps whilst the duke of Kent watches.

Was it last night? Bollocks I forgot :(

it's so bad patti, it's good.
lawks

I seem to remember that when convenient Jewish plot device maid died of asthma last season she was removed by the undertakers via the servants entrance. I think the corpse going out the front door implies it's the quality and I think it really has to be Perse as she is plainly channeling unity mitford

I was quite disappointed that Alex Kingston has gone to Norfolk this week. I hope she's back next to slap Hallam around a bit

lord yes, he needs a good slapping but it will probably be the duke who has to do it again......
I love Alex Kingston.
Did you happen to see her that time on Graham Norton, she was so excited about whatever musician she was on that she all but straddled him and licked his face!
She is a force of nature, I liked in ER as well

Do we think they will get rid of Lady Persy though?
Although such a prize bitch the whole thing seems to revolve around her atm.

That's because they have no other ideas. How many times can Lady Agnes look slightly pained over the dinner menu after all?

I´m hoping thinking that it´s Lady P.

But not really dead but needs to pretend to be because of her spying.