LA SAGA DOWNTON ABBEY A VÉCU ET MOURU

DOWNTON ABBEY HAS REACHED EXTINCTION

DOWNTON ABBEY II A NEW ERA — 2022

The film will nurture the nostalgic minds of people who admired the long saga because it really gave a caustic vision of the extremely class-divided life of the aristocracy in England, mostly outside London, hence in the boonies. Differences between farmers (never landowners because the cultivator of the land in England in the period concerned and still today works on the land of a landlord, not on his (and today her) own land. Then the people in the village or small-town next door are hardly considered, except for an election, or with the ex-Irish activist who married one daughter and became presentable and started a car business (he is not a member of the aristocracy per se) in the small town. But mostly the servants of the Earl’s palace with a real and strict hierarchy from the butler at the top, the king of the downstairs kingdom, to the simplest maid cleaning corridors, stairs, and hygienic facilities. The kitchen people are set apart. The same hierarchy exists in the family itself with the absolute authority of the earl who often forgets to consult the members of the family, including his American wife.

This final or latest episode is centered, at the very end, on the death of the grandmother, the mother of the earl, with some dubious discussion of a love affair she had with a French aristocrat that implies the earl is not the son of his father, but the son of this French aristocrat. Funny. She denies of course, despite the dates, and luckily no DNA tests yet. No cast-iron proof or evidence. Ah Ah !!! Aristocrats and hypocrisy. Sure enough, he would be at once deprived of the earl title, and the whole legitimacy after him as for the title would be in shambles. Not the property since the property is attached to a physical person, but all that goes along with the title, like being a member of the House of Lords, and other privileges that are attached to the title and not the person. Ah Ah !!! Hypocrisy and aristocrats.

Apart from that the cinema episode, the shooting of a film in Downton Abbey only…