Manor House
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Movie Reviews of Manor House
Movie Review: Life circa 1906
Summary: 5 Stars
Volunteers lived at this English estate for three months, learning how life was for the gentry and the servants in the early 1900s. This particular show deals a lot with the relations between the family and the people who are serving them. The volunteers had no idea what they were getting themselves into until they lived there.
This is the type of "reality show" that I prefer, mainly because you learn about history in a different way. When studying history, you typically just learn the facts and then move on. In this show, you get to see real people living that way and how difficult it was for them having to adjust to a different mind set. Things were a lot different and by just reading about it, you don't really get a sense for that.
Movie Review: The best reality show
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched all six hours of this television program on PBS, and it changed my entire outlook on reality programming. The show places a group of peolple in a giant Edwardian Manor, and they have to act as if the last hundred years never happened. The main conflicts in this series arise from the social status between the master family (upstairs) and the servants (downstairs).This series was not only educational, but very entertaining and different. Especially if you are even slightly interested in the British culture at that time. I would not recommend this, however, for people with really short attention spans.
If you ever get tired of The Bachelor or American Idol, or any other reality program, give this a try. It is worth every penny.
Movie Review: MR. EDGAR RULES!
Summary: 5 Stars
MANOR HOUSE is probably the best reality show I've ever seen. So well-cast, so loaded with real social meaning, and full of the kind of tension that recent REAL WORLD incarnations could only hope and pray for. (Even if I had no interest in history, my interest in gossip could keep me watching these people circling each other for hours.) It's also more provocative in many ways than game-based reality programming, because it FEELS like there is a game going on in MANOR HOUSE all the time. You leave the show with a creepy sense of how much "play" there is involved in any kind of social living. It's also fascinating to see how hard those who benefit from social imbalance work to justify what is, in essence, just good luck.Movie Review: I can't say enough good things.
Summary: 5 Stars
This series is wonderfully entertaining. It is reality televison with class. I thoroughly enjoyed every second of each episode. One of my favorite parts is when the kitchen maid attempts to defend herself against the lecturing master of the house and he quickly reminds her that it is inappropriate for her to address him directly. When the Olliff-Cooper family gets overly comfortable with their borrowed status, they ruffle plenty of downstairs feathers.The show is educational and fun for everyone...except for the hallboy and skullery maid that is.
Movie Review: Manor House on PBS
Summary: 5 Stars
What a wonderful 3 part program! I had often wondered what it would be like to go back in time and experience the customs and every day life of the early 1900's. PBS makes it happen in this reality show. Set in Scotland at a rambling Manor of the era, ordinary people are transformed into Edwardian servants and their masters. It is interesting to see how they all adapt (or don't) to their roles and bond together, especially that of the servants. If anything, it is well worth the money to see the devilishly dashing Kenny and his wild antics at work!