Review: Downton Abbey “Episode Four”

This week on Downton Abbey, Thomas has returned from visiting his sick father with a rather sullen, ghost-like face on him. I did a double take for a second I thought I was seeing Dracula’s Jonathan Harker (or Renfield) returning from Transylvania. Miss Baxter gathers clues sporadically (Thomas taking a spoon from the kitchen / …

2015 Screen Actors Guild Television Winners!

The winners of the 2015 Screen Actors Guild Awards in television categories.

2015 Screen Actors Guild TV Predictions

The 2015 Screen Actors Guild awards will be handed out Sunday, January 25. Who will take home the prizes in nine TV categories? The staff at Awards Daily TV weigh in with their predictions.

Review: Downton Abbey “Episode Three”

Plodding along at a steady pace, Downton Abbey ambles into the fifth season’s third episode with some anticipation of drama and conflict. Perhaps not the high drama of Games of Thrones or the conflict of Breaking Bad, but it would be preposterous to expect such things. I’m starting to sound like the Earl of Grantham. …

2015 Golden Globes TV Results: The Affair, Fargo, Transparent

“Good evening. Good evening and welcome you bunch of despicable, spoiled, minimally talented brats.” And so co-host Tina Fey kicked off the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards Sunday night which, thanks partly to Fey and her partner Amy Poehler (more about them in a minute), breezed along mostly entertainingly even while the specific awards seemed …

Downton Abbey: The King’s Speech

A friend of mine seems surprised that so many people like Downton Abbey. Why do so many people love a show where nothing happens, she asks. Define nothing. A country estate of lords and ladies, away from the big bad world we only hear about – post-war 1924. In that context, I am not always …

Downton Abbey: Returning to Form

Like a lot of these grand shows we watch, viewers have to wait and wait for the new season to finally begin. Personally, my enthusiasm for Downton Abbey had waned slightly in this time. That is not particularly reflective of how much exactly I like the show, more a parallel of how I feel about this genre of TV (or movie) and my indifferent excitement when the wife and I first started watching it. Being British myself, I should of course be salivating at the mouth at the anticipation of season five and then dabbing it away with a folded handkerchief.