Downton - urgghh!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/15/why-americans-have-fallen-for-snobby-downton-abbey.html

"If Fellowes were really interested in the true drama ...Lord Robert, whose income from land and rents would have collapsed with the long agricultural depression, would be unable to service his mortgage and, subject to the estate duties imposed to pay for old-age pensions, would have to sell the place to a wheat baron from Alberta."

"Yes, I know it’s perfect in its way. Nothing beats British television drama for servicing the instincts of cultural necrophilia. "