I'm writing this as Downton Abbey launches its third season. Its fans, yours truly included,
will eat it up.
But the phenomenally successful upstairs-downstairs TV soap opera also has its detractors, most amusingly so James Parker in the February issue of The Atlantic Monthly. His article Brideshead Regurgitated sees the show as a sad fall from the more literary Brideshead Revisited. of many seasons past.
Parker won't prevent me or the legion of fans from watching Season 3. Besides quite a few chuckles he also dished up two
delicious similes, one about the dialogue and the other about the "emonic lady's maid O'Brien's hairdo.
Though Parker admits that the dialogue "spins light-operatically along in the service of multiplying plotlets an is not too hard on the ear" he does warn that. . .
As for O’Brien's hair. . .Now and again a line lands like a tray of dropped spoons.
Her hairstyle consisting of two ringlets perched on her forehead like horns
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