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Downton Abbey: Episode Four on Masterpiece Classic PBS – A Recap & Review

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, tagged , , , , , , , on 31 January 2011 | 48 Comments »

The curtain fell with a heavy silence on the final episode of season one of Downton Abbey on Masterpiece Classic last night. What a cliffhanger. Screenwriter Julian Fellowes is such a tease. Luckily, there will be a season two. I cannot imagine being left dangling with (oh I will not spoil it for those who [...]

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Downton Abbey: Episode Three on Masterpiece Classic PBS – A Recap & Review

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, tagged , , , , on 25 January 2011 | 16 Comments »

Episode three of Downton Abbey aired on Masterpiece Classic on Sunday. The “engine of social change is roaring through society,” its ripples even reaching traditional life at Downton. As the family upstairs and their servants downstairs face change, they are forced to make choices. Some like Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) and the Dowager Duchess (Maggie [...]

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Masterpiece Classic 2011 Season Preview

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 1 December 2010 | 25 Comments »

One of the consolations of being trapped inside during the cold, wet Pacific Northwest winter in the prospect of great television from Masterpiece Classic on PBS. Celebrating its 40th year on the air, the longest-running and most-honored drama series in primetime announced its new 2011 season this past week. There are some exciting new productions [...]

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Masterpiece’s Sense and Sensibility 2008 Revisited: Part Two

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged , , , , , , , , on 9 February 2009 | 3 Comments »

The rebroadcast of episode two of the 2008 mini-series Sense and Sensibility concluded last night on Masterpiece Classic and I am duly satisfied, not only with this production but with Jane Austen’s amazing story. You can catch up on my thoughts on episode one here. Sense and Sensibility has really grown on me over the years. It [...]

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Masterpiece’s Sense and Sensibility 2008 Revisited: Part One

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged , , , , , on 2 February 2009 | 8 Comments »

They say that time and distance are the best healers. After revisiting the 2008 miniseries of Sense and Sensibility last night on Masterpiece Classic, I have to agree. This controversial new adaptation by Andrew Davies which premiered last March has mellowed for me, and the rough edges that I wrote about in my initial review [...]

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Sense and Sensibility: Conflict of Heart Over Head: Episode Two

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Masterpiece Classic, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged , , , , , , , , on 6 April 2008 | 8 Comments »

“I, and only I, knew your heart and its sorrows; yet, to what did it influence me? — not to any compassion that could benefit you or myself. — Your example was before me: but to what avail? — Was I more considerate of you and your comfort? Did I imitate your forbearance, or lessen [...]

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Withstanding Sense, or Sensibility: Review of Episode One

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Masterpiece Classic, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged , , , , , on 30 March 2008 | 9 Comments »

  Marianne began now to perceive that the desperation which had seized her at sixteen and a half, of ever seeing a man who could satisfy her ideas of perfection, had been rash and unjustifiable. Willoughby was all that her fancy had delineated in that unhappy hour and in every brighter period, as capable of [...]

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