Downton Abbey

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Film Reviews,, Tv & Film

3.6 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, June Thomas and Seth Stevenson discuss Downton Abbey--the movie. It’s been four years since viewers visited the upstairs or downstairs of Downton. Much to our critics’ delight, seemingly nothing has changed, save for Lady Mary’s hairdo. As Downton Abbey prepares for the royal visitors, quips fly and schemes are afoot. But will the servants clash with the unsavory, arrogant royal retainers? And will Downton survive the visit with its dignity intact?

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0:00.0	You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:03.6	I want to tell you my secret now.
0:06.4	I see dead people.
0:09.5	Silent Green is people.
0:13.3	No, I am the father.
0:16.6	Oh, Rushburg.
0:23.0	What's in the box? What's in the box?
0:26.2	You maniac!
0:28.2	You blow it up!
0:31.3	Damn you all the hell!
0:39.4	Hello and welcome to Slate's spoiler specials for Friday, September 20th.
0:42.9	I'm June Thomas. I'm the senior managing producer of Slate Podcasts.
0:46.4	And I am here to talk about Downton Abbey.
0:49.7	I'm not going to tell you who I'm with yet because I want you just to be thinking,
0:53.4	are they bringing back the band? Is the band getting back together? Yes, I'm here with Seth Stevenson. Hello, Seth Stevenson. Hello, June. It's like we never left this podcast studio. We didn't. It's only been, what, four years since the last episode of Downton Abbey, slunk off of PBS. And yet here we are again, ready to talk about the shenanigans upstairs and downstairs.
1:16.5	Times are changing. History rolls forward, but Downton remains.
1:21.8	I talked about a band that requires musical instruments. Do you have any musical instruments?
1:33.2	June, I had my valet, climbed deep into the catacombs, the storage catacombs of Stevenson Abbey to dig out an old instrument.
1:35.5	This is the bell.
2:17.5	If you didn't listen to June and I in the past, this is a bell we would often use to summon hot towels or a small glass of brandy when we needed to as we were podcasting. Oh, when I needed my frocks to be adjusted. Which was all the time. All the time. embarrassingly. I know. Mid podcast, you'd be like, I need this ham. It's down to my heel, but I need it further out. Longer, longer. And so you would ring the Royal Seamist. The seamstress or maybe even the Queen's Seamstress. Yeah, yeah, when I really want the nice kleptomaniac to salt me out. The light-fingered Seamor, the Queen. We're already getting ahead of ourselves. We're already talking about the film. So, Downton Abbey the television show has been away for four years, but guess what? They made a movie.
2:18.7	They made a movie out of it.
2:20.6	Before we get into spoiling all the things that are to be spoiled, can I just say, I kind of loved going back to downtown.
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