The popular TV show “Downton Abbey” won a total of 26 Emmy awards. The happy couple gets engaged before we fade to black and I’m Still Standing starts to play. It turns out that Lady Rose (Lily James) is still in love with Atticus and the two run off together at the very last minute.
That said, the series finale does feature some good news for fans. It’s a mind blowing moment when Edith realizes that Michael wasn’t her actual dad after all. In the seventh episode of the final series, however, Lady Mary announces that her husband has been holding on to some life changing news all this time.īut there’s more tragedy in store, shortly after this announcement comes a shock revelation from Lady Edith (Laura Carmichael), who suddenly realizes that Sir Anthony Strallan is actually her father not her late stepfather Michael Gregson. But it was a bitter-sweet moment because baby George died in series four when he got meningitis. Bates to find out that they’re going to be parents. Last episode of Downton abbeyĭuring the last episode, fans were already on the edge of their seats while waiting for Anna and Mr. The final episode of Downton Abbey aired on 25 December 2015. Two days later, the British broadcaster in a press release claimed that the series had attracted 11.8 million viewers for its first episode.
The first episode of Downton Abbey aired on ITV in the UK overnight at 20:00 GMT+1, achieving an audience share of 44% according to overnight data provided by BARB. Information about season 7Ī seventh series has been commissioned, set to premiere 14 December 2016. The much loved family dog bit it during a walk and was run over by a car, or so we were told something which wasn’t really all that convincing to fans of the period drama series. Mary visits him in hospital and tells him how much they cared about each other.Īnother important character death took place shortly after that is Isis died. It seems that Tom (Allen Leech), who is still mourning Sybil, got into an automobile accident and suffered amnesia after he wasn’t found for hours under the debris. Admittedly, we’ve had a couple of presidents that didn’t do/aren’t doing us proud, but remember, their opponents got more votes.Mary and Henry Talbot (Tom Cullen) finally got married, even though Lord Grantham threatened to shut down Downton as punishment for his daughter not marrying an English nobleman. It was unworthy of everyone involved to dumb down Downton for the American audience. We’re all charmed by the pageantry and beauty of your sets and costumes, and we can turn to the Internet and Wikipedia to work it plot features that we can’t understand. You can make a bit less money and challenge us. Don’t just choose the money and dumb it down, folks. Or to be the stupidest, least-informed peoples in the past 3 centuries.įolks in the entertainment industry can make a big difference in the existential crises facing humanity. We have the greatest access to information to educate ourselves in human history. We need better television series to challenge us, not be dumbed down to avoid challenge. Although American, I had less difficulty following legal issues in season 1 than female characters did. I’m watching UK version on Amazon and enjoying it much more than US version as it aired originally on PBS Masterpiece. So how do Downton Abbey fans in the United States watch the full, unedited version of the show? It seems the only option is to get the Downton Abbey: The Complete Collection – Original UK Edition on DVD or Blu-ray. So they made two different versions of the show. From what I gather, whoever did this decided that Americans just not care about deeper story-lines. You can find a very detailed list of things missing from the United States version of the show here. Apparently both versions have the same actors and story, but the US version has 2 whole hours edited out. UK Version? Is there a difference between the US and UK version?Īfter watching Season 1 on PBS here in the United States, I was concerned that I would be lost if I started watching the UK version of Season 2. I had been waiting to watch the series on Netflix for a while.Īfter deciding to sit down and start season 2, I noticed the title said “Original UK Version”. I recently noticed that Season 2 of the PBS show Downton Abbey was recently added to Amazon Prime Video.