After six seasons and two movies, Downton Abbey is still just rich English people sitting around a big house, waiting for other rich people to visit.
made its way onto our screens in 2010, my grandmother has exclusively referred to the show aswhich used to annoy me in the way people continually getting lyrics to famous songs wrong annoys me.and one equally tedious cinematic outing, I’m convincedis about a working girl named Abbey who has to make ends meet downtown and finds herself swept up in a dangerous yet intoxicating world. Or it could be a gritty urban drama about a reformed criminal who finds salvation in prison.
That’s it; that is the entire plot. The Crawley family leaves their current house to holiday in the South of France at their new house. Now I’m all for a work trip that doubles as a holiday, but even Julian Fellowes must’ve been a bit nervous when he pitched the idea to Universal. “So, the plan is to shoot on location in the French Riviera for six months.”style, they attempt to inject as much pearl-clutching into this flimsy storyline as possible.
“Do sit down,” instructs the Dowager Countess in the film’s trailer, as if this will be a challenge for the Crawley family, for whom sitting constitutes a hobby. “I’ve come into possession of a villa in the south of Frah-nce,” she declares, before revealing that a former lover has passed away and bequeathed her the property, seemingly out of the blue.
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