Review: 'Belgravia' is the 'Downton Abbey' replacement you've been waiting for

Julian Fellowes, the man who built "Downton Abbey," "Gosford Park" and other edifices of lesser cultural impact, is back with another place-named winner: "Belgravia," a highly entertaining six-part period soap opera that premiered Sunday on Epix. Set mainly in London at the dawn of the Victorian age, it is based on a 2016 novel Fellowes published online in serial chapters, like Charles Dickens, who had written five by the time this story takes place.

As with the Downton Crawleys a century later, the characters face questions of romantic love versus practical arrangements, individual aspiration versus social restrictions and new ways versus old ones - which some people like just fine, thank you very much. There is also