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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…
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Fackham Hall Review: Downton Abbey Meets Agatha Christie
– Damian Lewis: Memorable and Delightful Performance – by Maggie Lovett | Collider | December 3, 2025 Earlier this year, as summer waned, moviegoers reacquainted themselves with the satire genre as The Naked Gun took critics and audiences by storm, reminding them that it’s perfectly fun to laugh at the genres we love. Now, as winter approaches, Fackham Hall is…