Category: Media
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Fackham Hall Review: Downton Abbey Spoof is Fast and Funny
– Enjoyable Silver-Spoon Romp – by Adrian Horton | The Guardian | December 5, 2025 Period drama parody has some decent and often smart gags and benefits from a game cast including Damian Lewis and Thomasin McKenzie. Perhaps it’s the feeling of end times in the air: after years of inactivity, spoofs are making a comeback.…
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VIDEO: Damian Lewis and Katherine Waterston Trade Serious For Silly in Fackham Hall
– Corpsing – by MovieWeb | YouTube | December 5, 2025 Actors Damian Lewis and Katherine Waterston are Lord and Lady Davenport in the new British ‘Downton Abbey’ meets ‘Airplane!’ spoof ‘Fackham Hall.’ Known more for their serious roles, they talk about “corpsing” and breaking character amongst the silliness, and why they love this kind…
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Fackham Hall: Come for Damian Lewis, Stay for the Chaos
– A Gloriously Unhinged Spoof of British Period Drama – by Damianista | Fan Fun With Damian Lewis | December 5, 2025 Christmas came early this year in the form of Fackham Hall, Damian’s gloriously unhinged spoof of the British period drama. I managed to catch an early screening on December 3 — but only…
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Fackham Hall: Manners Go Out the Window
– Slapstick Parody and Shenanigans – by Patrick Ryan | USA Today | December 5, 2025 There’s nothing particularly funny about “Downton Abbey.” That’s precisely what makes it so rife for parody in “Fackham Hall” (in theaters Dec. 5), a deeply silly send-up of PBS’ long-running period drama, as well as other tart British fare…
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Fackham Hall: One of the Funniest Comedies of the Year
– Score 9/10 Amazing! – by Tyler Nichols | JoBlo | December 4, 2025 PLOT: A new porter forms an odd bond with the youngest daughter of a well-known UK family. As the Davenport family, headed by Lord and Lady Davenport, deals with the epic disaster of the wedding of their eldest daughter to her…
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Roger Ebert Review: Fackham Hall
– Score and Costumes Perfectly Suitable – by Nell Minow | Roger Ebert | December 5, 2025 You’d think it would be easy to parody beloved period British dramas because they have so many guilty pleasure repeated tropes: huge historic houses, romances within and between upper classes and their servants, swooningly fabulous clothes, luscious meals,…
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Downton Abbey Gets the Naked Gun Treatment in Fackham Hall
– Fackham Harder? – by Jordan Hoffman | Vanity Fair | December 4, 2025 The team behind this delightfully stupid British import on what makes the upper crust so funny, their encounter with Julian Fellowes, and why the ex-prince Andrew should give it a watch. Fackham Hall looks like a typical period British drama—at least until…
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Fackham Hall: Keep Calm and Chuckle On
– Rated R for All Manners of Crudeness – by Natalia Winkelman | New York Times | December 4, 2025 Clever sight gags jazz up this “Downton Abbey” sendup about a bookish aristocrat under pressure to marry her first cousin. “She’s 23 — a dried-up husk of a woman,” Lady Davenport (Katherine Waterston) snipes to…