Michael Engler

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    'Downton Abbey' Postmortem: Inside the Series Finale's Big Moments

    “Some people liked it, some people didn’t like it because they said it was just such a happy ending for everybody,” director Michael Engler says. "You wanted to leave the characters in a place that would be memorable and would be hopefully promising a future that you could imagine for them, that you would want for them.”

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    'Downton Abbey' Director Talks Mary and Henry's Romantic Moment in the Rain

    Warning: This interview contains spoilers about the sixth episode of Downton Abbey’s final season. In Sunday’s episode, Lady Mary and Henry Talbot got caught in the rain and ducked for cover — and a beautifully-framed kiss. “I always feels like I’ve succeeded when people say that,” director Michael Engler tells Yahoo TV, “because you always leave them wanting more, rather than leaving them wanting less.

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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