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    "He won, deal with it"

    Something something, don't feed the trolls.

    Thomas, a servant in the 1920s (and in the 1910s), has had suggestions and even portrayals of encounters throughout this show, from the very first episode of the first season. Aside from expecting historical accuracy from Downton Abbey which skims around it, as has been pointed out in various reviews, the suggestion

    I dunno, I feel by the end, Joan had embraced change and progress and didn't so much not want that freedom as to be suspect of it, since she had had success or at least survival under the old "system".
    I thought it a twist that the show's happy ending for her was owning her own business and having her own secretary

    "Social Justice Warrior" is the new "PC Police" or "feminazi". There are people that misuse/misinterpret social justice, sure. Like anything. But "SJW" is moreover used as "anyone that advocates a progressive political opinion I don't agree with generally because I am a bigot", thus why someone like Fellowes would

    There's no need for every show to be conservative, either, is there?

    It's true. Dan Egan is not a billionaire and is currently serving as his campaign manager.

    It's even more disquieting when you realize those prostitutes were dressed up like a woman who wouldn't be famous for another decade or so.

    "Straight romance is the sine-qua-non of the family unit, the propagation of the species, the basic building block of society, etc., and has been for thousands of years"

    "Funny"? If you find injustice (as you purport it, anyway) "funny", I suppose.

    "Slick Willie" and "Hillary is unfuckable"…. please climb back into your worm hole to a 1993 airing of Limbaugh's program and stay there.

    I'm glad you put "feminist" in quotations, as I'm not about to assign that title to people who handwave sexual harassment as well as the politics of (consensual) sex with someone who is very much your work subordinate at the time.
    Also not here for the "feminists" lecturing millennials in general, as it's usually some

    A) It's not a show, it's a movie. A minor nitpick, but you ARE commenting in the review.
    B) His name got "dragged through the mud" to becoming a Supreme Court justice while Anita Hill was portrayed as, at best, a con artist by the Right.

    Oh, and the shtick really doesn't work when you actually look at the casting in HBO's movies. I mean, Julianne Moore played Sarah Palin. Greg Kinnear in a bad balding head is playing Joe Biden. It's really not as Democrat/Republican clearly cut as some people might believe.

    That poor "conservative black guy"!
    :( :( :(
    Say, whatever happened to him, anyway?

    Troll game weak. The paranoid "everyone-is-out-get-conservatives-because-Hollywood-is-totes-liberal-just-look-at-the-Oscars!!!!" shtick is funny, sure, but boy does it get old quick.

    Yay! Another bingo square on my Cosby Exhibit Defender Lines card! Did I say "yay"? I meant "…sigh."

    Hang on while I fill out this bingo card of Cosby exhibit defender lines…

    While it was an "open secret" for many years to apparently quite a few people, it never came to be acknowledged the was it has been in the past year nor was Cosby even prosecuted for his alleged crimes. To say that "it's a bit late to start crying foul" overlooks the secrecy complicit in why he was allowed to go

    This seems a considerable strawman to throw up for a serial rapist (oops, "alleged" serial rapist) who escaped any kind of persecution for decades and whose victims are still, you know, alive and walking around and stuff.
    And maybe the fact that other historical figures did reprehensible things is something we need to