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When I did make it up, though, I realized I needed a time jump of about 25 years. I had always been interested in that night but became even more so when I wrote an adaptation of Vanity Fair for Reese Witherspoon, so I did even more research.
The average time in for a footman to remain in a London house was 18 months. Everyone knew someone it had happened to. As the years went on, it became less dangerous. The condition Sybil died of in Downton became not safe but survivable, but only in the s.
Before then it was fatal percent of the time. You go rolling on with it indefinitely until the audience has had enough. The Scene. Type keyword s to search. Edith escaped to London to finally live with her daughter, Mary said goodbye to the two suitors who never stood a chance, and Anna and Mr.
Bates were finally reunited. Everything that happened after all of that in Season 6 was simply icing on the cake. Arguably, the show could have ended after the fifth season, with a majority of the characters seemingly in a happy place.
The Downton Abbey fan base became used to — and perhaps grew to love — the roundabout storylines that seemed to grow crazier and crazier with each new episode at one point, fans will remember, Anna Bates even ends up in prison.
But there's only so long a show can go on without tiring out its audience with what are essentially the same storylines with a fresh coat of paint each season. In a letter to American fans of Downton Abbey published by PBS , show creator Julian Fellowes admitted that "the series is ending and that decision will not be reversed. Though the plot lines did drag out in certain areas, fans could be happy with how the show ended, rather than say "it's about time" as the credits rolled.
In the first three seasons, fans watched Mary and Matthew Crawley go from hating each other to falling in love, getting married, and having a baby. However, Matthew and Mary's happy ending was short-lived. According to Town And Country , actor Dan Stevens , who played Matthew, chose not to renew his contract after the first three seasons.
Julian Fellowes told Radio Times , however, that he didn't know Stevens wouldn't return until Season 3 was well underway. According to Fellowes, Findlay Brown was upfront from the beginning about her intention to stay for just three seasons.
However, when Season 5 ended, two other characters said their goodbyes. Still, losing four main characters in just five seasons is a lot for any show so it's no wonder the showrunners knew it was the right time to close the curtain and cancel the series.
Downton Abbey, the movie , was a long time coming. In a goodbye letter to fans after the series ended in , creator Julian Fellowes revealed, "There may be a movie — I hope there will be — and there may be a stage play or a musical.
I have heard all of them mooted. About two years after the series ended, the Downton Abbey movie was set to begin production, AP News reported.
So, while the series may have ended after six seasons, it was clearly never really the last fans would see of Downton. With a show that focuses on its characters and setting just as much — if not more — than plot, there can always be another story to tell.
As if those losses weren't enough, show creator Julian Fellowes hinted that a new project could pull him away from Downton Abbey in an interview with The New York Times conducted just a year later.
At the time, Fellowes told the reporter that while he would hope not to have to begin work on the NBC series The Gilded Age until Downton was finished, it wasn't realistic for him to do both shows at the same time, Fellowes explained , "I would hope that by the time all the hurdles have been cleared, the timing makes it so I can then concentrate on the new series.
And if Downton goes on — of course that's not my decision — then it would be with other writers. While handing over the reigns of Downton to other writers was a very real possibility Fellowes faced, he did explain to The New York Times that he'd "prefer to do everything on [his] terms. In the early days, as The Guardian pointed out, Downton Abbey focused on the intricate details of everyday life at Downton, like the mystery of a missing wine bottle or sisterly tension.
But, in Season 2, all the minutiae started getting tossed aside in favor of larger-than-life plots that feel out of place in the slow-moving world of English aristocracy fans were initially introduced to. According to The Atlantic , the show really seemed to lose its footing once the main characters were settled into their respective relationships — and that's when some of the more convoluted storylines entered the fold.
Throughout the course of the show, characters were forced into situations that grew increasingly unrealistic. Bates and his wife, the sweet-to-a-fault Anna, are both accused of murder and Matthew Crawley miraculously recovers from being paralyzed from the waist down.
Later on, Edith has a baby with a man who goes missing while trying to divorce his wife, as Time recapped. Despite all this, fans tuned in season after season. And one of the tricks is to recognize when it's time to come to an end. According to the Downton Abbey page on Rotten Tomatoes , the show was generally well-received throughout its entire run. However, after an astounding percent approval rating for Season 2, the show lost its way.
The convoluted storylines aren't just the opinions of one or two scorned reviewers who had a bone to pick with the show. In Season 3, critics agreed that the show's plots became unsatisfactory.
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