Review: The Imitation Game
The year is winding to a close, and you know what that means: Oscar bait season! Yes, it's that glorious time of the year when we all try to wash...
Upstairs Downstairs: Family Ties
[caption id="attachment_569" align="alignleft" width="150"] Image: BBC[/caption] Previously on Upstairs Downstairs: Hallam knew that appeasement was a really, really bad policy, but his bosses were a bit slower to realize that....
Upstairs Downstairs Recap: The Newcomers
Image: BBCAs luck (and the BBC and Masterpiece programmers) would have it, series two of Downton Abbey took its bows in the US the very same night series two of...
Summer Games
After a 12-year hiatus due to the war, the 24th Summer Olympiad opened in London on July 29, 1948. Following the 1936 Berlin games, which were…awkward, to put things mildly,...
Upstairs Downstairs Recap: No Going Back
recap of Upstairs Downstairs series 2 episode 6
I’ll See Your Coventry and Raise You a Hamburg
Let it never be said that the Brits can’t get good and mad when the occasion warrants it: on November 16, 1940, the RAF bombed the hell out of Hamburg...
What Could Go Wrong?
So, when a mustachioed megalomaniac in a snappy uniform decides he wants a chunk of Czechoslovakia, you should just give it to him, right? That, apparently, was the thought process...