Category: The Beat
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Downton Abbey S4 Ep-6
Oh Downton, sweet Downton…this is the stuff we love you for- the modern world throwing the Abbey in disarray, Lady Edith sulking, hearts broken, Grandmamas up in arms over trivial affairs of great importance, Carson confronting the challenges of the new world; a black man…it was all jolly well good and jolly well Downton. The…
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Scandal. S.3 Ep.4- Say Hello To My Little Friend
I’ll be honest, this was not the most thrilling episode of the season so far, but funny enough I found myself drawn into the story, maybe its because it takes us away from the Liv Fitz dynamic which I have grown out of, but even when its less than thrilling Scandal has something over and…
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Downton Abbey; S4. Ep 5.
Mrs Patmore is not doing so well in the modern world; ELECTRICITY?!! BUT WHY?!! I swear you thought it was going to get her head or something. Lady Grantham has a new maid, Baxter, who knows that Americans like Orange juice at breakfast which makes her a godsend in Cora’a book for bring back memories…
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THE RACKETEER – John Grisham.
John Grisham is one of my favourite crime authors, second only to James Patterson. He has his formula but manages to churn a different tale using same said formula most every time. The Racketeer starts out in the usual Grisham flair, lawyer and his legal woes but soon pans out into something much more, for…
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Madam Reads: The Racketeer by John Grisham.
John Grisham is one of my favourite crime authors, second only to James Patterson. He has his formula but manages to churn a different tale using same said formula most every time. The Racketeer starts out in the usual Grisham flair, lawyer and his legal woes but soon pans out into something much more, for…
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Scandal S3. Ep3- Mrs Smith Goes To Washington.
Washington played host to one Mrs Nesbitt, mother of Chris Lawrence who was killed under the patriot act for crimes of terrorism. Mrs Nesbitt is convinced there was more to the story than meets the eye and after several fruitless attempts to get answers as to why her son was killed, she took her campaign…
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Downton Abbey S.4 ep. 4
Ahhh so we meet our black character in Downton and therein lies the race and class debates. It seems a little predictable but I’d like to see how they work with this. “Jack Ross, at your service.” The Galant Band Leader as Aunt Rosmund calls him. “Things have come to a pretty pass when you have…
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Scandal s3 ep.2; Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
The President’s mistress take two. Except this time Fitz actually did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms Locke. Pope vs Pope. As pointed last week, this season gets more personal for Liv so there were flashbacks in this episode and we get to see the dissolution of the relationship between herself and her…
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Downton Abbey S.4 Ep.3
Well, well, well…we wanted drama and we got drama. Ugly drama. Tense drama and this week was something of a winner. Downton returned to its old splendour of grand entertaining with an Australian opera singer for their evening’s entertainment. How very civilised. Much of this week revolved around romance and scandal. Upstairs, Lady Edith was…