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On The Edwardian Country House...

Posted May 28, 2002 9:27 PM.

I can't be the only person who has been watching The Edwardian Country House religiously. And I can't be the only person for whom a great proportion of the attraction of the show has been Ken Skelton, the Hallboy.

Tonight's episode was extraordinary and fascinating - collisions between staff and family - collisions between barely 20th and barely 21st Century life - collisions between the head of the household and the wonderful character of the astonishingly proficient, hard-working and idiosyncratic French cook. If this is a series that comes to the US, all Americans among our party should definitely invest the time...

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