I'm glad I fit this in

Last night I finished Season 2 of Downton Abbey.  It is impossible to watch just one episode at a time.  I sit down to watch and when I look up 5 hours later, it's time to go to bed.  (This usually only happens to me if the Salvatore Brothers are involved.)  Thank goodness I finally listened to the thousands of people recommending this show - because I desperately need another TV show to follow.

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Thanks to time off from work combined with an addictive personality, I finished all the DVD's and now have to wait an entire week to see the beginning of Season 3.  Since G is not here, this means I need to learn how to use the DVR.  Necessity is indeed the mother of invention.  Or at least training, in this case.

SPOILER ALERT BELOW

I'm usually not one for British films/shows.  Except for The King's Speech which is amazing and I would like to own.  (I realize this is probably confusing since I want a British accent and love all things British and would move to either London or the English countryside at the drop of a bonnet.)  I'm all about the literature; give me Pride and Prejudice any day of the week.  But watch the movie?  No thanks.  So much of the wit of British classics is internal; in descriptions of character's thoughts, feelings, opinions.  Yes, some of this is conveyed in dialogue, but so much of it comes across as spoon-feeding the audience.  I get frustrated, so I never ever watch any of those films.  And this is why I was never interested in Downtown Abbey.  But eventually I caved to peer pressure and boy did it pay off!

Maggie Smith is the best actress ever!  OMG I love her disdain for America.  The scene where she fights with the swivel chair that was invented by Jefferson (?) and she goes, "I've had enough fights with Americans today."  Her eye rolling, sighing, intervening mannerisms kill me.  No doubt she helps carry the show.  C, my source of all things pop culture, tells me that Cora's mother enters the scene in Season 3 and there is some entertaining conflict with Her Lady Crawley.  Can't wait!

Last night when I watched the last episode and Matthew and Mary finally got engaged?  That was the best!  My heart soared and I was tempted to waltz around the room with Orca, and then put that episode on repeat for the next 3 hours.  How I'm supposed to wait an entire week between shows from now on is a mystery to me.

I want to meet Sybil's baby and see the Crawley wedding.  I want Bates to get out of prison and make little servant babies with Anna.  I want more drama with O'Brian and Thomas even though it sets me on edge.  I want someone to please clobber Daisy over the head with a rolling pin.  And then do it again.

If you haven't watched this show, you have an entire week to make up the time!  Chop, chop!