https://cartermatt.com/46230/downton-abbey-season-3-episode-2-review-pbs-talking-shirley-maclaine/ TV News, Interviews, and Reviews Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:10:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://cartermatt.com/46230/downton-abbey-season-3-episode-2-review-pbs-talking-shirley-maclaine/#comment-88494 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:10:52 +0000 http://cartermatt.com/?p=46230#comment-88494 Her performance was disappointing. Next to Maggie Smith, I think she fell flat. I agree with Deb. The caricaturisation was off the mark.

]]> https://cartermatt.com/46230/downton-abbey-season-3-episode-2-review-pbs-talking-shirley-maclaine/#comment-88288 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:20:59 +0000 http://cartermatt.com/?p=46230#comment-88288 Oh – I should have added that I’m assuming a woman of high society, not social reformers like suffragettes. Different cloth altogether!

]]> https://cartermatt.com/46230/downton-abbey-season-3-episode-2-review-pbs-talking-shirley-maclaine/#comment-88286 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:13:10 +0000 http://cartermatt.com/?p=46230#comment-88286 I was disappointed with the portrayal of the American heiress written for Shirley MacLaine. She seemed to be played more like a young person of the 1920s rather than an older one. If, for argument’s sake, the character is 70, then she came of age during and after the American Civil War and took her place in American aristocratic circles in the gilded age of the 1890’s-1910. That kind of woman in her seventies was known for her decorum, manners, and restraint. I realize that Jullian Fellowes was trying to draw a strong contrast between social mores on different sides of the pond, but she became a caricature and it cheapened some of the encounters and didn’t take us to the depth that was available.

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