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Downton Abbey TV Club | S6:E1

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Film Reviews,, Tv & Film

3.6 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:14.4

Welcome to the Sleep Plus TV Club for Downton Abbey Season 6.

0:18.9

I'm June Thomas and I'm here with Seth Stevenson for the final countdown.

0:24.3

Seth, are you ready to say goodbye? Shrimpi, I will never be ready to say goodbye to Downton.

0:31.4

We'll break out the Verve-Clico. It's been a long road. Can we really mark the end? As Lady Mary

0:37.0

said, Bates and Anna's subplot, can we really mark the end? As Lady Mary said, Bates and Anna's subplot.

0:38.9

Can we really mark the end?

0:40.5

But we must break out the Verclico and celebrate the end of something that's brought us all so much joy.

0:46.1

Well, Balmy, I just have to say one thing.

0:47.9

To you, it's Lady Shrimpie.

0:49.6

Okay.

0:50.3

I apologize, Lady Shrimpy.

0:51.6

I didn't mean to demote you. But this is 1925, June.

0:55.6

Are you going to tell me times are changing?

0:57.1

Times are changing.

0:58.8

Whoa, that's a new one downtown Abby.

1:01.5

So where shall we begin this week?

1:03.5

This week's, we're back, and so we had a supersized episode.

1:08.4

What was the outstanding theme for you this week?

1:12.7

Well, I think times are changing.

1:18.9

As always was the theme. The people living in the downtown abbey lifestyle are like the dot commerce of 1999 and now it's 2001. Oh, I remember those days as well. The sword of Damocles

1:25.7

is falling and everyone realizes the gig is up.

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