Category: Review
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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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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…
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Fackham Hall: Absurdly Funny Satire of Downton Abbey Is a Laugh a Second
– Side-Splitting, Absurd Romp – by Gregory Nussen | Screen Rant | December 3, 2025 Welcome back to the big studio comedy. Jim O’Hanlon’s Fackham Hall, a wildly funny, laugh-a-second satire in the vein of this year’s The Naked Gun, is a refreshing return to a style of physical, performance-based comedy woefully lacking in today’s market. Yes, a lot…