That probably doesn't help them much. Running something like Downton is a huge expense and selling your other properties to get a few years of operating expenses just puts you in the same place in a few years. It'd actually be pretty dumb to do that.

Doesn't his whole arm not work, hence having it in a sling?

There's been pretty good research showing that if the media in a metro area heavily covers a suicide, the suicide rate in its coverage area will go up afterwords. I'd be shocked if there wasn't at least something along those lines happening with spree killers.

That's weird, I always thought Cardinal Bernard Law commented on here as Brian Jud.

It's crazy how good a Holmes adaptation it is, while mostly just being hilarious.

Yeah. Somehow I think Bates identifying himself as a murderer in the course of threatening his cell mate who he's just seen appearing to inform to the guards about something is going to turn out to be another really stupid thing that Bates has done.

As a storyteller and plotter of things, I don't like Julian Fellowes. The whole idea of stretching the show over almost a decade now and not dealing realistically with the implications of that (aging, servants appearing and disappearing randomly) is no fun.

I hope "This channel has an executive devoted entirely to making sure tits appear" was the clinching argument with the 'rents.

I think we'll get the new Dunk and Egg novella, at least.

I think we'll get the new Dunk and Egg novella, at least.

@avclub-884c4beddd8c98bb3b016bdfcc1bcdf8:disqus I'd take the point to be that a lot of entertainment by and featuring black people is really no better than a ministrel show, in Spike Lee's opinion, and fills a similar place in the culture.

@avclub-e3f5ab7f02122f95b801e13e2c586d6a:disqus Yeah, good point. The ancestors I've been told about, don't know if any of these are even true, include Crimean Germans who are supposed to have left Germany in 1840s and then came to Michigan in 1880s. And, allegedly, an Irish deserter from the British Army during the…

Gotcha, E.Buzz. That's certainly true.

Plus, the slave trade was formally outlawed in 1808 or something. So by the period just before Civil War, almost slaves would have been at least a generation or two removed from Africa* and American slavery was humming along just fine.

I interpreted that ending partially as Tarantino tweaking the audience for demanding that ending or World War II movies for generally providing something along those lines as their endings.

Let's not go overboard.

I think, in the OP's mind, we're just supposed to be mad and that's the main thing.

I think, in the OP's mind, we're just supposed to be mad and that's the main thing.

Fred Williamson and few others went there in the 70s, but probably Quentin Tarantino is one of the few who's seen these things.

Fred Williamson and few others went there in the 70s, but probably Quentin Tarantino is one of the few who's seen these things.