On that front, we have two competing narratives that run the film’s length, the trip to France “the British are coming” moment from the trailer, and the movie coming to the Abby. That depth comes from the characters themselves, their joy and their loss. Those connections are needed because, much like in the first film, there is not a lot of thematic depth to the narrative. Even if you have not seen the TV series that the films spawned from, you can feel that weight of relationships both with the narrative and in the cast’s strength to bounce off each other. One of the main strengths that Downton Abbey has is its wealth of cast and characters that it can draw from. It is a big imposition, but the appearance of Guy Dexter (Dominic West) and enough money to fix the roof help ease the pain. Meanwhile, those who stayed back at the Abbey must contend with the mansion being used as a location site for a film. Half the household makes the trip down south to work this all out. For you see, Violet has inherited a villa in the south of France in a surprising and disputed way. However, as they return to Downton, Robert Crawley, 7th Earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) and his daughter Lady Mary Talbot (Michelle Dockery) are called into a meeting with Violet Crawley, The Dowager Countess of Grantham (Maggie Smith) and her lawyer. So to set the scene, we open with a wedding as Tom Branson (Allen Leech) and Lucy (Tuppence Middleton) as the whole family comes to share in the nuptials. With that in mind, I am approaching these films and these reviews as someone who has not seen the supporting show and thus present how it works or does not work for those who have not watched the show. It was a pop-culture phenomenon, so even without watching, you picked up things like one character’s untimely death via car crash after visiting his newborn son. As we said back in our review of the first Downton Abbey film, I have never watched any of the TV Show that is the basis for these films.
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