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Downton Abbey: Innocence in the Age of Irony

Tom Gualtieri explains the secret of the hit show’s popularity. Continue reading

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Captain America, The Earl of Grantham & The Office of Deliverance: The New BBC Comedy “Twenty Twelve”

In which Dennie Wendt raves about “Captain America” and “Twenty Twelve,” the new BBC comedy starring “Downton Abbey”‘s Hugh Bonneville about a (make-believe?) team trying to deliver the Olympic Games to London. Continue reading

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On Watching Downton Abbey in Jamaica with Richard the Night Watchman, and Other Musings

Lord Grantham in Jamaica, William James in the astral plane, and other unknowable things that Janet Steen has lately been pondering. Continue reading

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