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Attempts to be the approachable of series in which we care more about the featured players than the events surrounding them. We are suppositious to want to follow Matthew and Mary to outer space, if dire be.

Though Fellowes and his cast halfway succeed at this — there are far more lingering shots of Bates and Anna (Banana?) then there ever are of soldiers at the front — the war cannot be denied and the show has been a bit bungling about smashing all that reality into its impeccably tidy fantasy world. Clunky lines like “war makes inappropriate risers of us all” and “the world was in a dream before the war but now it’s woken up” were confirmed the heavy responsibility of moving the plot forward and reminding us that yes, we are at war, and yes, people are getting blown up, and yes, the most outstanding thing is probably not what happens to the entail. Even moving the wounded into Downton’s living-room couldn’t make the fighting seem tangible.

Source: TIME

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