Late

The day got away with me. 

I spent part of it (re)watching Gosford Park, which I remember liking when it came out in 2001, but as is often the case with me, I had almost no memory of it. Lots of English people at a country house. Sometimes I had trouble understanding what they were saying. 

Now I see it through the lens of Downton Abbey, not surprisingly since it was written by Julian Fellowes. 

And I think there were too many aristocrat characters and not enough attention paid to the mechanics of character differentiation. How many bland, young blond men do you need to cast, really?

I do like to see Helen Mirren playing characters who aren't glamorous, though. That was nice.