Eminently entertaining! The plots are densely interwoven and they kept me gripped, often in spite of myself. It's all so elegant and well acted that it draws one in to be pampered by it's ornate splendour. I enjoyed the most recent episode where they drew so many threads together and niftily contrived some reversals of stereotype. Racial prejudice is gently gone over, (It was actually embedded in the culture and ruthlessly applied in those days) and reversed for the sake of variety, so Lord Sinderby is shown to be the one concerned with a mixed-race marriage. His thoughts can be summed up as 'They're all very nice but I wouldn't want my son to marry one'. The Earl is far more urbane but I'm sure that there's some unspoken thoughts drifting through his mind such as 'Some of 'em have bank accounts this big.' Any historian could build a career out of picking holes in Downton but they're welcome to their ivory towers and leave the rest of us to merrily suspend belief and disbelief and enjoy the entertainment.
Review of Downton Abbey
