thehighshelf:

Downton Abbey took 1.5 seasons to turn into The Killing, but it managed it nonetheless.

That is, it substituted pretending to be smarter than the viewers for being good, until it burned every bridge.

Max’s article on Gawker was right. I’m sorry! I used to love you Downton, before you got bogged down with the dumb Anna/Bates stuff, and Sybil and Branson apparently never talking to each other for months at a time, and the dragging on of the Mary/Matthew/Lavinia/Sir Richard /Pamuck’s Ghost story line.

Oh Downton, we could have had it all, as Adele would say.

We could have had it all…