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Title: very entertaining
Review: This is a lovely lush series with production values more like Brideshead than Upstairs, and is thoroughly enjoyable. It seems more accurately to be a 20's and 30's era drama in its characters, other than the dowager countess, who have the buffer look and attitudes of the 20's rather than the historically accurate depiction of the Edwardian age. The servants of this Earl seem unrealistically to have very personal relationships with the family. I do believe that the relationship was much more formal and distant, like most employee-employer relationships today. However it is a lovely series with a performance by Maggie Smith as much a jewel as Gielgud's in Brideshead. It would be good if PBS made a short film exploring the actual servant-master relationship during the Edwardian period as a companion piece, but this might be a hard sell. But, regardless, Hoorah for PBS.
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