While I still love this show I am starting to get a little worried for a couple of reasons. Obviously we all knew that Oscar's bid for Gladys was going to fail. However Mr. Russell's promise to Gladys that he would back her once she falls in love seems a little shallow. Wasn't she in love with her first suitor? Mrs. Russell put her foot down and was the end of it, so suddenly Mr. Russell is going to grow a spine? My next worry is this return of Turner, not so much that she has returned as a fake, but because in the coming attractions she seems worried that Mrs. Russell will "expose" her. She will be exposed the minute she comes anywhere near the Russell house, are we forgetting that all the servants know her? Are we also thinking that Oscar will not find out, lets remember her and Oscar were working in secret for a while. Mrs. Russell is the least of her problems. The gossip around her will be immense. Lets face it though the reaction of Mrs Russell was priceless and a great way to end the episode.
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Agnes is extraneous
jp-2069 November 2023
The Russells are why we're here. Their chemistry, their storyline, the presence, makes the show. Christine Baranski continues to do a poor Maggie Smith impersonation and I don't know what's going on with Cynthia Nixon. Was she kicked by a horse or something?
Miss Brooke's acting has improved since season one. Everyone else in the scene still acts circles around her but at least she's not doing the same hand gestures over and over again and that's refreshing.
I'm really intrigued by the Russell's son and his new romance with the seedy woman from The Good Wife. The sets are gorgeous and while the dialog feels a little stilted, I suppose it's meant to sound that way.
I look forward to each episode; it took way too long to get to season two.
Miss Brooke's acting has improved since season one. Everyone else in the scene still acts circles around her but at least she's not doing the same hand gestures over and over again and that's refreshing.
I'm really intrigued by the Russell's son and his new romance with the seedy woman from The Good Wife. The sets are gorgeous and while the dialog feels a little stilted, I suppose it's meant to sound that way.
I look forward to each episode; it took way too long to get to season two.
Don't Give In
Hitchcoc6 November 2023
The beauty of this show is that many of the characters are so ensconced in their own self-importance that they walk over everyone. They have no principles and take their greatest joy in outdoing each other. It's as if they were in a real war where the casualties are two competing Opera Houses or a marriage proposal or a house in the country. Right now, Mrs. Russell is on a roll. But who should show up but a former servant who has the goods on Mr. Russell. In the background is bad blood among the servants. That witchy woman can't seem to figure out that all she has to do is mind her own business. And, at some point, these "pillars" of industry are going to take action against striking workers. A lost is at stake.
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