3/06/16 8:40PM
Save
A-
Downton Abbey’s final Christmas special opens on an idyll. The Crawleys gather on the lush grounds of the manor,…
Reviews - Downton Abbey
2/21/16 9:23PM
Save
A-
The series finale of Downton Abbey (with the Christmas special still to come) doesn’t pull any punches: a death, a…
2/14/16 9:01PM
Save
B-
This episode is transparently, cynically manipulative, and I resent how efficiently it worked on me, from the tense…
2/07/16 9:01PM
Save
A-
Readers, we have seen the star of tonight’s Downton Abbey, and he is us:
1/31/16 9:00PM
Save
A-
As Downton Abbey races toward its conclusion, everything, and I mean everything, comes out. Mary confides in Tom one…
1/24/16 9:00PM
Save
B
“Tom the peacemaker is back,” Edith Crawley says after a contentious dinner, and she’s right. Over the years, Tom…
1/17/16 9:01PM
Save
B
In the first scene of Downton Abbey’s wedding episode, Mrs. Hughes sighs, “I don’t mind. Not really.” Those aren’t…
1/10/16 9:01PM
Save
B
For six seasons now, and over the years between 1912 and 1925, the residents of Downton Abbey have spoken of changes…
1/03/16 9:32PM
Save
A-
Downton Abbey’s return spotlights more than ever the era’s changing social and economic mores, the seismic shift…
3/01/15 10:00PM
Save
A-
In this last gasp of season five, there’s plenty to grouse about, then—as befits Downton Abbey’s Christmas…
2/22/15 9:18PM
Save
A
Now, this is what I like to see from Downton Abbey: deftly paralleled characters, a dragging plot arc culminating in…
2/15/15 9:01PM
Save
B
2/08/15 9:02PM
Save
B+
There are plenty of stories on tonight’s Downton Abbey, but Edith’s and Thomas’ are the most immediate and…
2/01/15 9:02PM
Save
B
No one in tonight’s episode really listens to the things they’re told, or to the silences that say so much. Nobody…
1/25/15 9:02PM
Save
B+
Called on the carpet by Lord Grantham, Daisy speaks with a candor and passion that seems to surprise even her. She’s…
1/18/15 9:01PM
Save
B+
In this episode’s opening scene, Lady Mary and Lord Gillingham sprawl amid tangled sheets, looking appropriately…
1/11/15 9:00PM
Save
B+
The world is getting smaller, and getting bigger. The wireless brings news and music from afar, even carrying the…
1/04/15 9:15PM
Save
B+
The fifth season of Downton Abbey opens with Edith on a bicycle, riding away from the manor, past a crossroad, as…
1/02/15 12:00AM
Save
B
Save
As they digest the show’s fifth season, Downton Abbey diehards will stumble repeatedly into the same conversation…
2/24/14 12:03AM
Save
A-
Save
I can forgive Downton Abbey a lot of flaws when it delivers pomp and circumstance. This fourth-season finale is a…