Creators:
Julian FellowesScreenplay:
Julian FellowesComposer:
John LunnCast:
Hugh Bonneville, Martin Walsh, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, Joanne Froggatt, Matthew Goode, Lily James (more)VOD (3)
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We return to the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey for the sixth and final season of this internationally acclaimed hit drama series. As our time with the Crawleys begins to draw to a close and we see what will finally become of them all, the family, and the servants who work for them, remain inseparably interlinked as they face new challenges and begin forging different paths in a rapidly changing world. Secrets and rifts threaten the unity of the family, while those below stairs continue to navigate social changes which put their futures in jeopardy. The final season of the multi-award winning series follows all our favourite characters as they strive to find happiness once and for all. Will Mary choose the right path? Will her sister Edith finally get a break?! Will Carson and Mrs Hughes actually make it up the aisle?And will Anna and Bates overcome the many hurdles that have been set before them? This season offers all the highs and lows, joy and sorrow, that viewers across the globe have grown to love, with the added excitement of discovering how it all wraps up and it should be the most wonderful and satisfying season yet. (Universal Pictures UK)
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Now that the series is over, I can’t help thinking that many filmmakers would give their left arm to be able to make a first season half as good as this show’s first season. Not to mention the seasons that followed. Anyway, it’s the end of a long series that was about exactly the things I enjoy most about Britain. I will definitely miss it and I sure wouldn’t mind if a couple more seasons were made.
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The first few episodes were very routine. It would seem that the development of some characters has been forgotten and conflicts are being re-created where they were resolved long ago. Then, suddenly they started coming back, long since mourned, and the whole thing started to cycle into itself. Oh, the sacred memories of Lady Sybil! Lady Mary, for a change, had a suitor with an interest in motoring, and Lady Edith was still dealing with the drama of her unacknowledged child, with the gap between old and new widening under the stairs... Yet I admit that the final drama of how much of a bitch Lady Mary is reawakened my curiosity. It's really not easy to choose Downton as a darling show where especially high society women should be loving every minute of it, and then face the fact that the main character is utterly vain, uninteresting, and awkward in every way. Fortunately, Lady Edith's stories from the milieu of her magazine are much better, and the cohort of characters in the immediate vicinity also entertains. Including the touching story of a broken homosexual and Karl Marx in a chef's apron. Yes, I'll probably never see a historical saga from the first half of the 20th century without preconceived stereotypes, but I can hope, can't I? I'm also not worried that there won't be a sequel. At least the film has already been announced.
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For the vast majority of the time, I enjoyed the final season of Downton Abbey at least as much as the first four seasons. But then there was the last episode, in which the fates of all the characters were handled in the style of the most clichéd soap opera. I simply have to take this fact into account in my review, although I hate to because it degrades the overall impact of this otherwise magnificent narrative saga. (65%)
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