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Downton Abbey: Episode 2
SONIA BRAND-FISHER: Episode two of Masterpiece Classics’ “Downton Abbey” has begun to unearth both tension and hope that we will see unfold in this new season. Cora and Mrs. Crawley have begun shooting daggers from across the rooms that are left to their usage after Downton has gone through its full conversion into a convalescent home for wounded soldiers.
ZOË RICE: Like Sonia, I felt that the second episode of Downton rushed to fit too much into its designated time slot. Any TV program – but especially one that sets up numerous suspenseful plot threads – will jockey with the problem of pacing. Too slow and viewers complain that nothing happens, but too fast and what does happen feels either disingenuous or somewhat unsatisfying, as if we didn’t earn it. For me, the reveal of Lavinia’s deep dark secret fell into the latter category.
HOWARD MEGDAL: I largely agree with Sonia and Zoë, but allow me to spotlight a plot point that really didn’t work for me: Thomas, back to run the house? Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Culture
Tagged Downton Abbey, Masterpiece Classics, scandal, World War I
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Should Huma Run?
MOLLY SCHOEMANN: The idea of Huma Abedin running for her husband’s newly vacant seat in congress is pretty absurd to me, mainly because it seems like the sort of position that Abedin, if she aspired to it, would be perfectly capable of running for on her own, and not on the back of her recently resigned-in-disgrace husband.
HOWARD MEGDAL: While I agree with Molly that Huma is capable of running for this or another position on her own, this is less about her husband’s disgrace serving as her only way in, and more about the reality of politics as largely recognizing opportunity. Continue reading
Posted in News & Politics
Tagged Anthony Weiner, Charles Schumer, Congress, Huma Abedin, scandal, stand by your man, Twitter
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