"Don't think for one moment that you will see ME in dropped-waist frocks!"
Awards, ratings, a Christmas special and a third series. Hmm. ‘The Wire’? ‘Mad Men’? ‘The Killing’? We’re wondering what series 3 of ‘Downton Abbey’ could possibly deliver. Are there any clichés left? That flicking sound is Mr Fellowes and co leafing through the pages of ‘The 1920s, a short introduction’. We just can’t wait for the Charleston – not to mention the Black Bottom – mentions of gangsters and prohibition in New Yoik, the General Strike, jazz, flappers, aeroplanes and the rise of some brown-shirted types in decadent Berlin. Meanwhile the staff are dwindling because they’re all off to the shops and the factories. If we’re missing any stereotypical landmarks of the age, they’re sure to turn up next Autumn.
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