'Downton Abbey: A New Era' is Julian Fellowes's Finest Fan Service
The sequel to the 2019 film ‘Downton Abbey’ obligingly serves up more of the same
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The sequel to the 2019 film ‘Downton Abbey’ obligingly serves up more of the same
'Downton Abbey' never pretends to be anything more than what it is, a romanticized frothy soap opera fantasy with expensive china that will warm you like a well-worn angora sweater. The sequel adds a movie crew and a French villa gifted to Lady Grantham.
“Downton Abbey: A New Era” is not all that “new.”
'Downton Abbey: A New Era' continues the British TV family saga with a new sequel involving a silent movie and a French villa with mystery attached.
Maggie Smith as Violet Crawley still gets all the killer lines. In "Downton Abbey: A New Era," she turns her curmudgeonly cutlass on a new-fangled invention called "sound movies" as the visually stunning Abbey is being rented out to shoot a talkie. Oh, and she inherits a posh villa in the south of France.