I’m yet another American who watches entirely too many of these TV shows about repressed English people. If you do as well, you’ll love this.
Part I
Part II
Via Val Trullinger who is a terrible, terrible influence on me.
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Welcome to the club! There are lots of us USA folks who despise most modern USA attempts at comedy and turn to the Brits for relief; while I like USA ‘classic’ comedy (Firesign Theatre, Ted Healey and his 3 Stooges, Laurel&Hardy, Abbot&Costello, Charlie Chaplin), I despise ‘modern’ sitcoms and most current standups. Fawlty Towers and As Time Goes By are far more entertaining to me than Seinfeld or Maude; Keeping Up Appearances beats Friends hands down! And they can take those bad imitations of Japanese ‘Endurance’ (Blackout, Fear Factor, and other so-called reality shows) and toss them in the compost alongside the fish heads and limp cabbage.
A friend of mine got me hooked on “Downton Abbey” in the first season. I do enjoy quite a bit of British television and this certainly is more enjoyable than most on tv, especially when it comes to drama.
Not fond of most of the U.S. adaptations (certainly prefer “Sherlock” than the debacle that is “Elementary”). Ever see the show “Episodes”? It deals with (well, in the first season anyway) a British couple who made a very popular and sophisticated show over in the U.K. and were convinced to adapt it for the U.S. Needless to say it gets very dumbed down.
Very little broadcast tv I watch anymore – mostly cable or DVD.
*takes a bow*
Being without cable for a while now, I’d avoided Downton Abbey. But it’s reached the point where far too many of my friends watch it, so I’ve plunged into it. Halfway into Season 2 now. Okay, I understand the appeal, it is well done, I like the writing and acting.
But I love this spoofery as well!