Downton Abbey’s final Christmas special opens on an idyll. The Crawleys gather on the lush grounds of the manor,…
The series finale of Downton Abbey (with the Christmas special still to come) doesn’t pull any punches: a death, a…
This episode is transparently, cynically manipulative, and I resent how efficiently it worked on me, from the tense…
Readers, we have seen the star of tonight’s Downton Abbey, and he is us:
As Downton Abbey races toward its conclusion, everything, and I mean everything, comes out. Mary confides in Tom one…
“Tom the peacemaker is back,” Edith Crawley says after a contentious dinner, and she’s right. Over the years, Tom…
In the first scene of Downton Abbey’s wedding episode, Mrs. Hughes sighs, “I don’t mind. Not really.” Those aren’t…
For six seasons now, and over the years between 1912 and 1925, the residents of Downton Abbey have spoken of changes…
Downton Abbey’s return spotlights more than ever the era’s changing social and economic mores, the seismic shift…
In this last gasp of season five, there’s plenty to grouse about, then—as befits Downton Abbey’s Christmas…
Now, this is what I like to see from Downton Abbey: deftly paralleled characters, a dragging plot arc culminating in…
Goddamnit, Edith.
There are plenty of stories on tonight’s Downton Abbey, but Edith’s and Thomas’ are the most immediate and…
No one in tonight’s episode really listens to the things they’re told, or to the silences that say so much. Nobody…
Called on the carpet by Lord Grantham, Daisy speaks with a candor and passion that seems to surprise even her. She’s…
In this episode’s opening scene, Lady Mary and Lord Gillingham sprawl amid tangled sheets, looking appropriately…
The world is getting smaller, and getting bigger. The wireless brings news and music from afar, even carrying the…
The fifth season of Downton Abbey opens with Edith on a bicycle, riding away from the manor, past a crossroad, as…
As they digest the show’s fifth season, Downton Abbey diehards will stumble repeatedly into the same conversation…
I can forgive Downton Abbey a lot of flaws when it delivers pomp and circumstance. This fourth-season finale is a…