Downton Abbey -Nothing is as It Should Be

Sybil, Mary and Edith

Downtown Abbey is back with their beautiful clothes and heart tugging story line.  I'm sure the historical background themes go over much better in England than in this country, but it seems that Fellows is pointedly showing  the characters of Robert, Violet and Mary as stupid and pointless in their determination to keep things just as they were before the war. The old order was - after all the elite who headed the army and senselessly slaughtered all those men in the the trenches. They proved all too well that their so called noble blood had no brains to back it up.

At the same time I'm very disappointed in the portrayal of Cora's mother played by Shirley McClain.  Cora is a lovely and charming woman and you get the feeling she married very young and was some how smart enough to learn how to behave as the Countess.  Shirley McClain's table manners in particular were atrocious and I thought very unrealistic. She was more a Brits cartoon version of a rich American.  But I still loved watching the show and will religiously turn in every week.