John Maguire on film: Downton’s New Era is nothing but the same old story
A second attempt to wring more cash out of the Downton Abbey franchise falls flat on its face
After six seasons of a television series watched by millions around the world and a spin-off feature film that made a king’s ransom, the Crawley family, the hereditary Earls of Grantham and their domestic servants living upstairs and downstairs in an enormous castle on a manicured English estate don’t need any introduction.
Which is lucky, because the laughably titled sequel Downton Abbey: A New Era doesn’t give us one. You might have forgotten which was ...
