The Strange Death Of Liberal England

It was so good I had to watch the whole first season in one sitting. (Got it from Netflix.) It was that good.

I've read a few novels that I like set in the Victorian period, and this was even better than reading about it; it was like being there. I also really liked it because I think this is a period in history that is generally *very* mis-understood by most people--people don't really understand why things happened the way they did back then, much less how people felt about it. Downton Abbey paints a picture of the Victorians in all their troubled glory, in their veritable eleventh hour--the last moments before it all came crashing down....The last episode in particular, has a terrible elegance, and a tragic beauty to it.

Update: And no, I haven't read the book, 'The Strange Death Of Liberal England', but I heard about it, and I thought, Hey, I watched that on TV.

And, since I guess it deserves a more personal note too...well, if you can't feel bad for Matthew, then I don't wanna be your friend.

Anyway.

.....

A pretty good show-- a pretty good show, in itself.

An over-rated show, which comes with being a historical drama. Not bad, in itself.

Although the thing about historical stuff is that it's a little.... fan-like....

Usually better as a sort of aide-memoire to studying something else, than drama totally in itself.

So that's why it's not *as* good, maybe, as some people carry on.... I mean, there's certainly worse, I don't know.... it's like with "Rome"-- although this actually a bit better than Rome, although Rome isn't bad, it has characters too-- Rome is, like, *really good*, if you're, like.... *that guy*, but actually it's kindof average. And this is better than average....

{And anything is like that, it's just that there's a difference between a use of the medium and the medium itself, and its quality-- even when we're not talking about something which is a base exploitation, or like that....

And some things are (stupid) you know, I'm just not in the mood.... because this isn't bad, itself, so why compare it to something that is.}

I don't know-- they're good shows, and I don't think that they're exploitations, like, you know, you buy the rights to a certain author's work, and then you just sell the label and the grand idea-- I don't think I need to get into another one of those speeches, you know-- and this isn't that, and in a way I'm not even disappointed or anything, it's just that.... I'd prefer, not to over-rate it or anything.

It is, rather good.

(9/10)