In the season finale, the Crawleys take a visit to Scotland, the staff takes a trip to a fair and a journey comes to an end
Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey Watch: Thoroughly Modern Crawley
Jazz + cricket + criminal activity + the modern woman + a christening + estate management = a mega two-hour episode
Downton Abbey Watch: The Week After
The estate begins to recover from shocking recent events
Downton Abbey Watch: The Good, The Bad and The Absolutely Terrible
When something goes wrong at Downton, it’s not just the guilty who suffer
Downton Abbey Watch: Double-O Downton
Lady Edith writes a letter and the Bates family doesn’t get enough of them—also, a pop quiz about spoons
Downton Abbey Watch: Wish Him Well and Let Him Go
It’s a big day for Lady Edith—and for the show, which proves its plots can evolve without jumping the shark
Downton Abbey Watch: A Wedding and Some Unexpected News
Welcome to the 1920s, Downton residents — just in time for an aristocratic wedding
Downton Abbey Watch: Life Is a Game
All good things must come to an end — this season of Downton Abbey, Bates’ death sentence, our quickly dashed dreams of a flappery spin-off called Coming to A-Mary-Ca — but if we have to leave Downton until the fall (or …
Downton Abbey Watch: Mastercheese Theater
Say what you will about Downton Abbey’s melodramatic, overwrought, this-is-just-Dallas-set-on-a-moor twists and turns, but you cannot say that this is a show where nothing ever happens. This week, Julian Fellowes and company …
Downton Abbey Watch: The Ballad of Sad Lady Edith
I think we all know where we have to begin here: Poor Edith. Poor, poor, sad, pathetic, wobbly-chinned Edith. This episode dangled in front of her everything she has always wanted: a romantic future with her cousin (a little …
Downton Abbey Watch: House of Despair
The formula for a cult hit is a tough one to sketch out. Though it seems odd to think of Downton Abbey as anything but a television juggernaut, it wasn’t necessarily destined for iconic status. No one was waiting for an …
Downton Abbey Watch: Missing In Action
If you haven’t heard, World War I is really hot right now. In a full-page editorial in the Sunday New York Times, British novelist William Boyd (who also wrote and directed a movie called The Trench, so we can consider him an …
Downton Abbey Watch: Bayonets Versus Feather Dusters
Last week’s season premiere of Downton Abbey was all about the dissonance between the home front and the real front and how the two worlds could be so closely connected while operating on an entirely separate set of stakes and …
