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    Mary McNamara: Is 'Downton Abbey's' shift from TV show to movie a dream date or dark ride?

    by Mary Mcnamara, Los Angeles Times Sep 20, 2019 4 minutes

    Last night I dreamt I went to Downton again.

    Well, actually it wasn't a dream, it was a movie, a movie much like a dream in that I seemed always to be traveling through a series of overly appointed rooms in which ridiculous things happened and were said by people who seemed familiar and yet not.

    Watching this movie that might have been a dream I found myself thinking things like: "Well, that makes no sense." "God, Maggie Smith must be sick of those hats." And, "why am I here?" Yet each time I made an attempt to extricate myself, something lovely and comforting would occur - look, it's Imelda

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