Mary McNamara: 'Downton Abbey' the movie is as close as the series is going to get to a dark ride at Universal

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 Staunton!