Maggie Smith (Actor), Julian Fellowes (Director) | Format: DVD
(141)Release Date: February 7, 2012
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Season 2 of a Emmy® Award-winning Downton Abbey earnings as The Great War rages opposite Europe, and not even a relaxed Yorkshire panorama is giveaway from a effects. The group and women of Downton are doing their partial both on a front lines and a home front, though a power of fight usually serves to irritate a some-more informed passions love, loss, blackmail, and betrayal.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #6 in DVD
- Brand: PBS
- Released on: 2012-02-07
- Rating: NR (Not Rated)
- Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
- Number of discs: 3
- Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Number of discs: 1
- Running time: 544 minutes
Editorial Reviews
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...it stays a glorious, escapist party which, as a fabric of multitude is ripped asunder, a economy crashes around a ears and a autumnal sleet lashes down, should during slightest keep us dreaming until Christmas. --Andrew Pettie, The Telegraph
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Sex, blackmail, girls in good frocks and now a war. Downton Abbey only got even better. --Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
Customer Reviews
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457 of 470 people found a following examination helpful.
Absolutely Outstanding Period Drama
By Brett H
The severely expected second array of Downton Abbey picks adult dual years on from a initial array in 1916, in a center of World War 1. Downton Abbey has been converted into a handicapped home for harmed servicemen and a movement covers a duration from a Battle of a Somme adult to a finish of a war. As in a initial series, accepted events of a period, political, mercantile and troops are covered.
The wartime unfolding and a handicapped home environment yield an glorious credentials for some engaging story lines. The multiple of glorious tract lines, good behaving and a glorious environment arrangement all that is best in TV duration drama. This time turn we have 8 some-more episodes to supplement to a 7 in a initial series. As befits wartime, a costumes are not as decorated as in a initial array though they are entirely researched and suitable to a period.
There continue to be many glorious sold performances though discuss contingency be done of Maggie Smith. What a cadence of talent to expel her as Violet. She dominates each stage she appears in and mostly has some really humorous lines.
This DVD includes a Downton Abbey 2 hour Christmas Special that is substantially a singular best part of Downton Abbey to date. High play here with a cliffhanging murder hearing as good as a common romance, drama, profanation etc one would expect!
The UK has a prolonged tradition of producing excellent duration dramas and this is a many successful given a early 1980s when Brideshead Revisited: 30th Anniversary Edition took a universe by storm. Peak observation total in a UK are 11m that is an strange array for that market. It is appreciative to learn that a third array is already designed and we now know that this will cover an 18 month duration from 1920 to 1921. This one is expected to run and run and we would not be astounded to see Downton Abbey stability adult to a 1930s eventually.
196 of 201 people found a following examination helpful.
DVD Specs, Subtitles, and Christmas Special.
By Anthony
Amazon doesn't list some critical specifications so I'm only posting it here. we got them from a PBS website.
Length : 544 mins on 3 Discs
Subtitles : Yes
Number of Programs : 9
Includes a Downton Abbey Christmas Special
As for deteriorate 2, it's flattering most some-more Downton Abbey. More Matthew/Mary, Mr. Bates/Anna, and some-more dishonourable Miss O'Brien and Thomas. It's really engaging to see things start to change in a WW1 environment as good and some characters go by some large changes. The Christmas Special in sold is beautifully shot and creates me really vehement for deteriorate 3 that has already been announced.
163 of 174 people found a following examination helpful.
Well Worth a Wait
By lizzie
I can't examination this set, as it has not nonetheless been released. But we can tell others that it is good value a wait. Here in a UK we are on a 5th part of 8 and are betrothed a Chrsitmas special as well. we wish that will be enclosed in a US version, hence a Feb release. The story is set during World War we and there are some fantastic twists to a story! Those we adore and those we adore to hatred are all back, with some new characters as well. The scripts are really good written, Maggie Smith has some fanciful lines! The costumes and view are again lush. we am enjoying this array so most we have pre-ordered this set for my hermit in a US. If we desired array 1 and got concerned with a characters we will adore array 2 that continues their stories. It is a outrageous strike here and they are already articulate about array 3, to be set in a 1920's.
Update: a DVD set has come out in a UK. we can't know what will be on a US version, though a UK chronicle has a territory of deleted scenes. Have a demeanour during them, some pieces of a story make some-more sense. The reveiws here are mixed, as many suspicion it got too "soap opera" and predictable, while others felt it was unbelievable.
