Downton Abbey on Vice

  • Apes on a Gilded Treadmill

    The really tragic events at Downton Abbey are not Lady Cora’s miscarriage (brought about by the sinister, ever-machinating Miss O’Brien with a strategically placed bar of soap), or Bates’s unjust conviction for killing his wife (who ate a poisoned pie to make her suicide look like murder), but Ethel ruining the kidney soufflé for Mrs. Crawley’s luncheon and the fact that Bates is never shown getting anything to eat in prison. Full story

    2013 Feb 4 Gary Indiana Stuff
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  • Nimrod Visits Downton Abbey

    Our misunderstood British friend visits the Season 3 press conference for 'Downton Abbey' to find out why there aren't any black or Asian people on the show. A woman we're pretty sure was Shirley MacLaine tells him that he asked the show's creators the questions no one dared to a… Full story

    2012 Sep 14 Nimrod Kåmer Stuff
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  • Explaining British TV to Americans

    So there's a show sponsored by the London Tourism Board, a chef who swears and takes his shirt off, a bunch of people who can't talk about their feelings, and a serial choir-starter? Full story

    2012 May 16 Oscar Rickett, John Klingler Stuff
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