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'Downton Abbey' Director Talks That Dinner Scene Shocker
Warning: This interview about the the fifth episode of Downton Abbey’s final season contains spoilers. Downton Abbey fans have watched Lord Grantham’s discomfort come and go in the show’s final season, but few would have been expecting it to culminate in the Great Ulcer Burst of 1925. In Sunday’s episode, as the war between the Dowager Countess and Isobel raged on in front of a dinner guest, the Minster of Health, Robert (Hugh Bonneville) rose from the table — then projectile-vomited blood acr
- NewsKen Tucker
'Downton Abbey' Review: Come Together
It’s 1925 in Downton Abbey as the sixth and final season begins on Sunday night, and the dead dog Isis is, reassuringly if somewhat eerily, still seen trotting toward the stately pile in the opening credits. The theme of the season, stated as loudly as one of the Dowager Countess’s window-rattling harrumphs, is that 20th-century modernity has finally, and now with even greater speed, penetrated the Downton families, both upstairs and downstairs. WARNING: SOME MINOR SPOILERS FOLLOW FOR THE SUNDAY
