Use System Theme. Dark Theme. Light Theme. Continue Watching. Watch Now. Featured on Shop. Appearance Adjust the colors to reduce glare and give your eyes a break. You have the maximum of videos in My List. You have the maximum of shows in My List. More More Downton Abbey, the award-winning series from Julian Fellowes, spans 12 years of gripping drama centered on a great English estate on the cusp of a vanishing way of life.
Official Site Visit Official Site. Ethel leaves town. Tom lays a kiss on Jimmy. Mary has a secret operation to resolve her infertility. Jazzy Lady Rose arrives at Downton Abbey.
Matthew tries to modernize Downton Abbey. Michael Gregson happens to be in Scotland at the same time. The Flintshires are getting divorced, what scandal. Mr Molesley gets drunk at the ball. The new maid makes a move on Branson. The fair comes to Thursk and all the staff attend. Jimmy gets mugged. Patmore has a suitor. Mary gives birth to a son. Matthew dies in a car accident. Lady Mary is still deep in mourning for Matthew as Downton Abbey faces a future without him.
Lady Mary has a wealth of suitors showing up at Downton Abbey. Handsome black bandleader Jack Ross and Lady Rose spend time together. Jazzy Martha Levinson is back on the scene with her son. Both Branson and Carson face figures from their pasts. Modernization continues at Downton with the arrival of pigs, an alternate way to make money. Edith is alone and pregnant. Anna is raped and Bates is implicated in another murder.
Edna returns. The new nanny calls baby Sybil an evil crossbreed. Michael Gregson plans to become German. An electric beater arrives in the kitchen. Bates helps out unemployed Molesley. Lady Rose impersonates a maid and breaks a heart. Mary takes a major role in estate management. Single Lord Gillingham arrives.
Opera singer Dame Nellie also arrives. And Sampson, the card sharp and cheat. Molesley helps out downstairs. Anna is raped. Bates knows something happened. Isobel emerges from grief to help Dr Clarkson. Tom Gillingham proposes to Mary. Edith spends the night with Michael. Bates knows Anna was raped. New maid Baxter arrives with an electric sewing machine.
Michael Gregson vanishes. Molesley returns to Downton. Charles Blake arrives at Downton. Edith is pregnant. Rose plans a surprise party for Robert and invites black bandleader Jack Ross. Michael is still missing but Edith decides to keep the baby. Countess Violet is seriously ill. Bates is onto Mr Green. Mary has three suitors. Sarah Bunting reappears. Isobel has a new suitor.
Rose and Jack get engaged. Edith goes on a trip with her aunt. Martha Levinson returns with her son. Sampson causes more trouble. Edith returns from Geneva. Mrs Hughes and Carson hold hands at the seaside. Daisy is courted by an American. Mary goes on a date with Charles Blake. The local war memorial features prominently in this season, especially with Mrs Patmore. The police are still hunting down whoever murdered the valet Mr. Russian refugees arrive this season, creating some intriguing plot details where Countess Violet is concerned.
Lady Rose heads toward marriage. Lady Mary remains single but takes Tony Gillingham for a secret marriage test drive. Jimmy leaves Downton and Molesley is the only footman. Revolutionary schoolteacher Sarah Bunting comes and goes, finally wearing out her welcome at Downton family gatherings. Isis has cancer. Filming this decline would've made for vastly different seasons if Downton Abbey hadn't been canceled.
For five seasons, fans of Downton Abbey watched diligently as the characters navigated complicated personal lives while doing their best to save their perpetually-at-risk estate. After so many years, however, there's only so much an audience can take of Mary juggling suitors, Edith facing setback after setback, or of Downton seemingly being on the brink of going under at any given moment.
By the end of Season 5, according to Bustle , many of the struggles Downton Abbey's characters faced had all but been tied up in a neat little bow. Edith escaped to London to finally live with her daughter, Mary said goodbye to the two suitors who never stood a chance, and Anna and Mr. Bates were finally reunited. Everything that happened after all of that in Season 6 was simply icing on the cake.
Arguably, the show could have ended after the fifth season, with a majority of the characters seemingly in a happy place. The Downton Abbey fan base became used to — and perhaps grew to love — the roundabout storylines that seemed to grow crazier and crazier with each new episode at one point, fans will remember, Anna Bates even ends up in prison.
But there's only so long a show can go on without tiring out its audience with what are essentially the same storylines with a fresh coat of paint each season. In a letter to American fans of Downton Abbey published by PBS , show creator Julian Fellowes admitted that "the series is ending and that decision will not be reversed.
Though the plot lines did drag out in certain areas, fans could be happy with how the show ended, rather than say "it's about time" as the credits rolled. In the first three seasons, fans watched Mary and Matthew Crawley go from hating each other to falling in love, getting married, and having a baby. However, Matthew and Mary's happy ending was short-lived. According to Town And Country , actor Dan Stevens , who played Matthew, chose not to renew his contract after the first three seasons.
Julian Fellowes told Radio Times , however, that he didn't know Stevens wouldn't return until Season 3 was well underway. According to Fellowes, Findlay Brown was upfront from the beginning about her intention to stay for just three seasons.
However, when Season 5 ended, two other characters said their goodbyes. Still, losing four main characters in just five seasons is a lot for any show so it's no wonder the showrunners knew it was the right time to close the curtain and cancel the series. Downton Abbey, the movie , was a long time coming.
In a goodbye letter to fans after the series ended in , creator Julian Fellowes revealed, "There may be a movie — I hope there will be — and there may be a stage play or a musical. I have heard all of them mooted.
About two years after the series ended, the Downton Abbey movie was set to begin production, AP News reported. So, while the series may have ended after six seasons, it was clearly never really the last fans would see of Downton. With a show that focuses on its characters and setting just as much — if not more — than plot, there can always be another story to tell. As if those losses weren't enough, show creator Julian Fellowes hinted that a new project could pull him away from Downton Abbey in an interview with The New York Times conducted just a year later.
At the time, Fellowes told the reporter that while he would hope not to have to begin work on the NBC series The Gilded Age until Downton was finished, it wasn't realistic for him to do both shows at the same time, Fellowes explained , "I would hope that by the time all the hurdles have been cleared, the timing makes it so I can then concentrate on the new series.
And if Downton goes on — of course that's not my decision — then it would be with other writers. While handing over the reigns of Downton to other writers was a very real possibility Fellowes faced, he did explain to The New York Times that he'd "prefer to do everything on [his] terms. In the early days, as The Guardian pointed out, Downton Abbey focused on the intricate details of everyday life at Downton, like the mystery of a missing wine bottle or sisterly tension.
But, in Season 2, all the minutiae started getting tossed aside in favor of larger-than-life plots that feel out of place in the slow-moving world of English aristocracy fans were initially introduced to. According to The Atlantic , the show really seemed to lose its footing once the main characters were settled into their respective relationships — and that's when some of the more convoluted storylines entered the fold.
Throughout the course of the show, characters were forced into situations that grew increasingly unrealistic. Bates and his wife, the sweet-to-a-fault Anna, are both accused of murder and Matthew Crawley miraculously recovers from being paralyzed from the waist down.
Later on, Edith has a baby with a man who goes missing while trying to divorce his wife, as Time recapped. Despite all this, fans tuned in season after season. And one of the tricks is to recognize when it's time to come to an end.
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