Old thread was old and season 2 specific.

Back on in the US tonight for season 3!


At first I was skeptical, but now it's a good show to watch with the wife


I expect bad things to happen this season

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1/6/2013 5:17:33 PM

i need to get my antenna back for my TV so that i can watch it when it actually airs... til then it'll be watching the week after

but i too <3 this show

1/6/2013 5:44:12 PM

i watched s1 and s2 over the past week. i am so ready for tonight! love this show

1/6/2013 8:11:21 PM

you could download the whole of season three right now if you wanted to

but I won't spoil it

needless to say, I enjoyed it and I hope you guys do

1/6/2013 9:05:13 PM

where?

1/6/2013 9:14:52 PM

Icefilms probably has it, any torrent site

1/6/2013 9:48:58 PM

It came out in Europe last month so not too hard to find.

Let's not spoil it for those of us supporting PBS in the states ha?

1/6/2013 10:11:04 PM

http://chicvintagebrides.com/index.php/inspiration/downton-abbey-series-3/

Mary and Matthew's wedding; such gorgeous detail

1/7/2013 3:42:50 PM

poor Edith.

1/13/2013 10:47:49 PM

^

1/14/2013 2:56:33 AM

I guess the first episode kinda spoiled me cause I felt very cheated for only getting 53 minutes of Downton last night.

1/14/2013 9:55:36 AM

Word on the London streets is make sure to watch the Christmas Special before starting Season 3.

Mum's the word.

1/14/2013 10:17:40 AM

the 2011 Christmas special was great!

I have a coworker who is watching season 3 without ever watching season 2. Just went from season 1 on netflix to season 3 on PBS.... They keep asking me to fill them in on certain things

1/14/2013 10:26:14 AM

tell him/her to download season 2

even if you don't want to get on torrent sites, you can still watch it on HuluPlus

1/14/2013 7:08:15 PM

Boo-hooing over Ethel.

1/20/2013 10:53:58 PM

she did the right thing though. Probably should have gone it when it was first offered instead of "going down the road to ruin" lol


this was kind of a boring episode. I hope there's more drama next week!

1/21/2013 10:34:37 AM

Well, that was depressing

1/27/2013 10:00:45 PM

Ugh...

Every week now...

1/27/2013 10:50:15 PM

Woooo! SAG award! "Shut the French windows" haha

1/28/2013 12:05:13 AM

I love this show.

1/31/2013 7:12:09 PM

ok what the fuck is the christmas episode? I finished season 2 and i couldn't figure out if I was supposed to start S3 or watch the special. Immediately I realized something was off, but checked wikipedia and the release timelines and everything pointed to xmas. So I powered through it.

FML S3 picks up after S2 ends and the special appears to be sometime after S3?

Whoops, maybe I watched the wrong christmas episode? Forgot that S3 is probably only 6 episodes that could have feasibly aired on BBC before the end of 2012?

S1 -> S2 -> 2011 Xmas -> S3 -> 2012 Xmas?

[Edited on February 3, 2013 at 2:51 PM. Reason : .]

2/3/2013 2:47:55 PM

The Christmas special has not aired in the US yet. It will in a few weeks.

8 episodes + Christmas special = s3.

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2/3/2013 2:57:29 PM

2/3/2013 4:32:39 PM

Switching during the Super Bowl was smart. Good episode. Back to pigskin.

2/3/2013 10:12:31 PM

Quote :

"S1 -> S2 -> 2011 Xmas -> S3 -> 2012 Xmas?"

yes, exactly. The 2011 xmas special is on Hulu plus if you have it, season 2 episode 9

It sucks you've watched the 2012 xmas special before season 3 What did you use to see it?

2/4/2013 2:22:07 PM

the Christmas specials are always between seasons

And yes, Downton Abbey season 3 and the Christmas special have all already played in the UK which is why you can torrent all of the above online

2/4/2013 3:19:49 PM

^Right, I for some reason didn't think BBC since when I streamed S1 it was PBS Masterpiece Theatre. So after Netflix ran out I looked for S2. I knew the special was between seasons I just grabbed the wrong one.

So after Season 2 I had season 3 episode 1 and 2012 christmas special queued up trying to figure out which to watch. I didn't want to inadvertently spoil anything by browsing threads or wiki entries for too long and thought for sure S3E01 would recap the xmas events.

tl;dr:
I thought it was a PBS venture and that since 1/2013 was Season 3 that 12/2012 had to be the right special to watch after Season 2.

2/4/2013 4:35:10 PM

without giving away spoilers, the christmas special redeems the season finale imo. season finale left me rolling my eyes.

2/4/2013 5:21:39 PM

i've learned a lot about pre-eclampsia and eclampsia on Wiki in the last 15 mins.

2/4/2013 10:43:57 PM

So is season 3 the last season that they're making? Seems like I heard that somewhere.

2/5/2013 7:25:50 AM

Not true: they're definitely doing a season 4

2/5/2013 9:25:28 AM

2 hours tonight. Pumped

2/17/2013 8:56:17 PM

This appears to be last week's 2 hr episode

2/17/2013 9:00:59 PM

75 dollar tote bag or cookbook??? Decisions decision.

Or 175 dollar DVD of downton

Oh snap 450 dollars I get everything and a cd soundtrack. BOOM SOLD

[Edited on February 17, 2013 at 10:05 PM. Reason : U]

2/17/2013 10:04:17 PM

Uhhhhhhhhhh that was just wrong

2/17/2013 10:36:46 PM

Spoiler alert


They said on the new that a main character might die. I thought it might be the baby, then thought everything was ok, but once I saw him in the car I knew he was a goner.

[Edited on February 17, 2013 at 11:03 PM. Reason : U]

2/17/2013 11:03:22 PM

So was that the Christmas special?

2/17/2013 11:12:19 PM

Not cool.

2/17/2013 11:13:25 PM

Yes, that was the Christmas special

and yeah, people knew he wanted to leave the show

based on the setting, I was waiting on a hunting accident the whole time I was watching that episode

in any case, he's really dead and I hope this show doesn't become THE EDITH SHOW next season

2/17/2013 11:26:34 PM

........ugly cry.

2/18/2013 12:13:26 AM

Edith is unremarkable, I'm sure they wouldn't focus on her character. More likely Rose will get the most attention.

And why would he want to leave a solid gravy train? Does he think he can do better? I know many tv actors have thought the same thing and fell flat on their faces.

2/18/2013 7:09:53 AM

If any of the cast starts hinting that they might want to leave, Julian Fellowes kills their character off.

2/18/2013 9:19:13 AM

Two good articles

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/02/17/downton-abbey-matthew-death/?hpt=hp_t3

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-downton-abbey-recap-finale-matthew-death-20130217,0,4394373.story


I think I've gone through all five stages of grief since last night.

2/18/2013 1:06:34 PM

^^ Honestly, can you think of a better way to write him off of the show besides killing him?

Everyone would've been much more upset had he run away with some other chick, etc- it would've had to be something entirely out of character for Matthew

2/18/2013 2:09:11 PM

I can understand the death having to happen but the execution (lol pun) was just way too harsh for me. Maybe a little good bye deathbed scene? I dont know. But the dead face and eyes and the blood running down...

2/18/2013 2:36:16 PM

My gf had a pretty trying day at the hospital yesterday with family, and was looking forward to a relaxing evening watching this. apparently it was pretty upsetting.

2/18/2013 2:40:50 PM

welp.

i'm caught up.

3/4/2013 8:01:19 PM

3/5/2013 6:42:15 AM

3/5/2013 8:37:18 AM

I just heard about Call the Midwife. Season 2 starts this Sunday on PBS so I figured I'd mention it here for the PBS viewers.

I haven't seen Season 1, but it was enthusiastically/aggressively recommended to me as meticulous, gritty, heartwarming, every positive adjective ever.

3/26/2013 8:10:24 PM