Is not It Romantic? Romance Author Teresa Medeiros On Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey NY Occasions best-selling author Teresa Medeiros has written a lot more than 20 books, including Goodnight Tweetheart and her latest historic romance, The Pleasure of the Hug, out now. Here she creates by what helps make the PBS hit Downton Abbey so completely irresistible: You will find two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: Downton Abbey. Due to its glorious costumes and smattering of history, we love to to pretend watching it's an intellectual exercise. However that Downton is really a cleaning soap opera within the grandest tradition from the genre. We have basically abandoned soaps within our own culture. I lost my beloved Guiding Light in '09 and something Existence to reside only agreed to be the most recent casualty to fall underneath the programming axes. We might have forfeit Erica Kane forever but because of Downton, we are able to now agonize over Mary and Matthew's turned away passion and sigh with tender yearning as Anna the maid pines on her noble valet Bates. The show has handled to show muddy, miserable The First World War in to the coolest conflict because the Moldavian massacre on Empire. And may there be something more scrumptious than booing the dubious doings of ladies' maid O'Brien and her sneering minion, Thomas the Evil Footman? The show has mastered a standard feature of the classic cleaning soap - high cliff-wardrobe hangers that stop us panting breathlessly for the following week's installment. Others may prefer mindless entertainment but on Sunday nights, you will find me parked at the front of my television, munching popcorn and enhancing my intellect by watching Masterpiece Classic. Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now! -Teresa Medeiros