Lately I'm watching Downton Abbey - in order from start to finish

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3. I generally liked it a lot.

I personally was disappointed at how it finally ended, but you may not feel that way at all.

However, given that Lady Violet was apparently already well into her 70s in 1912 when the series begins, and while Maggie Smith is a wonderful actress and deserves the part, she really ought to have died by now. Or someone should remark that both her her parents lived to be 100, something like that.

That said, the series does a fantastic job of mostly moving things with the times. Changes in clothing. Changes in behavior. Those kinds of things. But it does fall in allowing a married servant to remain working in her job. That just was not done then. Okay, I get that the writers and producers really liked the characters and the people who played them and wanted to keep them around, but that kind of break from what the reality was back then is jarring. Some other story lines really move it into soap opera territory, but heck, they're all speaking in those wonderful accents so who cares?