Category: Print Media

– Silliness Reigns Supreme – by Patrick Gibbs | Slug Magazine | December 6, 2025 We’re just reaching the end of the awards season rush, which means that critics have been watching heavy drama after heavy drama, with the occasional respite for a documentary about Nazis, the conflicts in Palestine and Ukraine or other violence.…

– 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.…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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,…