Downton Abbey (2019)
Is there anyone who didn’t watch all six seasons of Downton Abbey and wait with baited breath during the finale hoping it would all turn out all right? If there is, I haven’t met her. Like millions of others (I’m assuming), my mom and I dressed up in our 1920s finery to attend the premiere of the Downton Abbey film.
It picks up only slightly after the last episode left off, and thankfully, there are no terrible upheavals to the plot or large consequences to the ending that we all loved so much. Downton has to prepare for a visit from the royal family, and everyone’s in a tizzy. Mary, of course, is a difficult, little pill – but how else would Carson get lured back for the movie? She goes behind Thomas’s back and asks Carson to return to his duties for the occasion because she fears the new butler can’t handle it. It’s rude, but at least Thomas gets to have some fun during his days off.
He’s not the only one who gets to have a blast: Tom Branson is the belle of the ball! He’s just adorable in this movie; even if you didn’t like him when he initially showed up behind the wheel all those years ago, he’ll sweep you off your feet. Imelda Staunton is the “guest star” of this episode, which could only have been cuter if she’d had a couple of scenes with her off-screen husband (Carson, for those of you who didn’t know). The whole movie is cute, and just as light as I was hoping it would be. I hope there won’t be any more films, for I fear Julian Fellowes will feel the need to upset the apple cart, like selling Downton during the Crash of ’29, going forward in time twenty years, or worse. For now, the 2019 movie is all I’ll need. It’s nearly perfect.
More Maggie Smith movies here!
It picks up only slightly after the last episode left off, and thankfully, there are no terrible upheavals to the plot or large consequences to the ending that we all loved so much. Downton has to prepare for a visit from the royal family, and everyone’s in a tizzy. Mary, of course, is a difficult, little pill – but how else would Carson get lured back for the movie? She goes behind Thomas’s back and asks Carson to return to his duties for the occasion because she fears the new butler can’t handle it. It’s rude, but at least Thomas gets to have some fun during his days off.
He’s not the only one who gets to have a blast: Tom Branson is the belle of the ball! He’s just adorable in this movie; even if you didn’t like him when he initially showed up behind the wheel all those years ago, he’ll sweep you off your feet. Imelda Staunton is the “guest star” of this episode, which could only have been cuter if she’d had a couple of scenes with her off-screen husband (Carson, for those of you who didn’t know). The whole movie is cute, and just as light as I was hoping it would be. I hope there won’t be any more films, for I fear Julian Fellowes will feel the need to upset the apple cart, like selling Downton during the Crash of ’29, going forward in time twenty years, or worse. For now, the 2019 movie is all I’ll need. It’s nearly perfect.
More Maggie Smith movies here!