Bam! The heirs to the family's insane estate sink with the Titanic and suddenly everything is flipped upside down. The writer of Gosford Park, my #9 film of the past decade, created the most expensive British TV series ever, which is presumably why the first season is only seven hours long. Those two facts explain why
This Recording rightly called it "the ideal Mad Men replacement". My face also zagged when I read such ridiculous praise, but after we polished off the season in exactly one week I was concurring hard. If you aren't craving more after the first episode you can probably quit, and while it may be tame the capital "D" drama cranks up fast after that.
