From the BBC comes a well written and well costumed drama series, Downton Abbey. Set in post-Edwardian England, the television series follows the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants during the reign of King George V.
The main male characters exhibit all the sense of style expected from an Englishman in the jaunty manner of the county manor. There is the patriarch, Robert Crawley;
the interloper heir Matthew Crawley;
and the gentleman caller, Sir Richard Carlisle;
There are several other notable characters that I am sure will be gracing this blog soon enough!
There is even a parody of the opening credits of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air that sets up the basic premise of the program:
and lest ye think it’s all a black tie and velvet affair, feast your eyes on yonder tweed and despair from envy,
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