Downton Abbey Cast Gracefully Recovers from Water Bottle Gaffe
Last week, the internet world was torn asunder when a promo image from the upcoming season of Downton Abbey surfaced featuring a plastic water bottle in the background. But now, the cast has taken the silly blunder and turned it into a way to raise money for clean water around the world. Show 'em, Downton!
Downton Abbey Forgot Water Bottles Didn't Exist in 1924
"Guys, what year is it? I can’t tell because of my water bottle. Oh, it’s the 1920s? Crap." These are the thoughts of whomever left their plastic bottle behind during a Downton Abbey promotional shot of the Earl of Grantham and Lady Edith Crawley, according to the Daily Mail. Thank you silent stranger who didn't throw…
Miss Downton Abbey? Here Are Some Season 5 Spoilers.
We may be lightyears away from Season 5 of Downton Abbey, but let's stir the spoiler pot, shall we? This week, some cast members escaped the Dowager Countess' disapproving gaze and served up some TV tea.
This Downton Abbey Board Game Will Destroy Your Friendships
If you need a birthday gift for a Downton Abbey superfan, look no further: Via the Daily Mail, here is an actual board game based on the show. Because you can only play Settlers of Catan for so many hours before someone gets knifed.
'Downton Abbey': The Worst House Party Ever
Despite Downton Abbey's refinement and pretty costumes, the British period drama has always flirted with the idea of being just a big-budget soap opera with plot lines involving incest, a murder trial, and an intentional miscarriage. But there's really no trope as quintessentially soap-y as that of rape. And last…
Sunday Sign Off: Lady Edith Is Going to Have a Great Decade
Lady Edith moves to 1920s Berlin, becomes a bon vivant artist, attending various orgies and drinking parties with Michael Gregson while working on a literary masterwork that starts out an innocuous chronicle of the Berlin social scene and transforms into a terrifying tale about the rise of fascism in Germany. Tell me…
There’s No Earthly Way You Can Watch All the TV Tonight
Unless you're Adrian Veidt or James Woods in Videodrome and (spoiler alert) your stomach has turned into a weird VCR vagina, there's no way you'll be able to keep up with all the television you are required BY LAW to watch this evening. Seriously, the Sunday afternoon/evening lineup is so daunting…[How daunting is…
Sunday Sign Off: Downton Abbey, Rise of the Machines
Sure, we could spend the whole new season fretting over Downton's precarious finances, OR the writers could have devised a whole new story arc: the luddite Mrs. Patmore learns that the machines are plotting to take over Downton and must set about destroying all telephones and electric mixers even as the people around…

