The pitt. Awesome as always. I'm glad they found a less dramatic catastrophe than last year. It was great don't get me wrong, but so many shows feel the need to always escalate, I'm glad they went another direction. Really sink into the day to day stuff.

Downton Abbey. It's a soap opera, but worth watching for the wardrobe and settings alone. I need to get me an English tailored suit. Well done period piece. My only gripe is too many camera cuts, and the music is a bit much. Sometimes less is more.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Calling Downton Abbey a soap opera is pretty uncharitable. Soap opera implies melodrama - stereotypical characters and long, drawn out, unsubtle plots. Downton is written and acted far too well to be a soap opera IMO.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

It's well done and acted for sure.

But stereotypical characters? I mean you've grand ladies, a stodgy dowager countess, a stodgier butler, scheming servants. There'snot a single character that doesn't fit a stereotype.

And as for long drawn out unsubtle plots? That's all the show is.

I'm digging it don't get me wrong, but it's definitely a soap opera