Downton Abbey TV Club | S6:E1
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🗓️ 4 January 2016
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Crack open some Veuve Clicquot and enjoy this free preview of Slate's Downton Abbey podcast, a TV club series that's just for Slate Plus members. If you are not yet a member and you'd like to listen along as we recap each episode of the show’s final season, learn more at Slate.com/Downton.
In this edition of the podcast, Outward Editor June Thomas and contributing writer Seth Stevenson discuss the Season 6 premiere.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening, ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.6 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:18.6 | Welcome to the Sleep Plus TV Club for Downton Abbey Season 6. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm June Thomas, and I'm here with Seth Stevenson for the final countdown. |
| 0:27.9 | Seth, are you ready to say goodbye? |
| 0:30.3 | Shrimpie, I will never be ready to say goodbye to Downton. |
| 0:35.0 | We'll break out the Verf, Clico. |
| 0:37.1 | It's been a long road. Can we really mark the end? As Lady Mary said, Bates and Anna's subplot, can we really mark the end? But we must break out the verve-clico and celebrate the end of something that's brought us all so much joy. Well, Balmy, I just have to say one thing. To you, it's Lady Shrimpie. Okay. I apologize, Lady Shrimpies. I didn't mean to demote you. But this is 1925 June. |
| 0:59.2 | Are you going to tell me times are changing? |
| 1:00.8 | Times are changing. Whoa. That's new one downtown abbey. So where shall we begin this week? This week's, we're back. And so we had a supersized episode. What was the outstanding |
| 1:13.0 | theme for you this week? Well, I think times are changing as always was the theme. The people |
| 1:19.5 | living in the downtown abbey lifestyle are like the dot commerce of 1999, and now it's 2001. |
| 1:26.2 | Oh, I remember those days well. The sword of Damocles is falling, and now it's 2001. Oh, I remember those days well. |
| 1:28.2 | The sword of Damocles is falling, and everyone realizes the gig is up. |
| 1:33.3 | The good times are going to stop rolling, and everything has crashed in this sector, that |
| 1:40.6 | being the obnoxious Lord and Lady's sector, and everyone needs to get out, and everyone's looking for a safe landing. |
| 1:47.7 | And so we have the staff, the downstairs staff, all kibbiting with one another, much like the employees in the breakroom of Pets.com might have in August of 2000, wondering what's going to become, what's our escape pod, where are we going to go to |
| 2:01.1 | what's going to happen? And then, you know, we have upstairs Lord Grantham and Lady Mary |
| 2:06.2 | talking about how they're going to manage this estate in the future and whether they need to |
| 2:11.6 | downsize. And we have the estate next door, greatly affecting Daisy's father-in-law, the farmer, |
| 2:16.2 | I've forgotten his name. Mr. Mason. |
| 2:17.9 | Mr. Mason. And once again, there we have the estate being bought and the former owners |
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