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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 344019" data-attributes="member: 22">I&#039;m probably not using the phrase correctly, but I think of UP/DOWN partly as a comedy of manners in the same way as THE SOPRANOS is: it mines the social strata, etiquette and pecking order, and the myriad little nuances contained within, of the world in which these characters live to great effect.&nbsp;I&#039;m not necessarily huge on period dramas either, but one thing I think UP/DOWN captures so well is, while everyone inside the house knows their place and what&#039;s expected of them (more or less),&nbsp; an increasing sense of unease of the world outside shifting and changing - Lady Marjorie&#039;s comments about divorce being a good example.&nbsp; The soaps have always done it - Albert Tatlock or whoever saying &quot;It&#039;s not like it was in my day&quot; etc. - but UP/DOWN has an added dimension of hindsight. The writers know and we know how far things will change in a way the characters don&#039;t.I look forward to the next instalment!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 344019, member: 22"] I'm probably not using the phrase correctly, but I think of UP/DOWN partly as a comedy of manners in the same way as THE SOPRANOS is: it mines the social strata, etiquette and pecking order, and the myriad little nuances contained within, of the world in which these characters live to great effect. I'm not necessarily huge on period dramas either, but one thing I think UP/DOWN captures so well is, while everyone [I]inside[/I] the house knows their place and what's expected of them (more or less), an increasing sense of unease of the world [I]outside [/I]shifting and changing - Lady Marjorie's comments about divorce being a good example. The soaps have always done it - Albert Tatlock or whoever saying "It's not like it was in my day" etc. - but UP/DOWN has an added dimension of hindsight. The writers know and we know how far things will change in a way the characters don't. I look forward to the next instalment! [/QUOTE]

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