Downton Abbey (2010) the acclaimed BBC series, tells the story of an old aristocrat British family in the early 20th century after the main heir succumbs in the Titanic. None of the three daughters can inherit the immense estate, which is entitled by law to a far removed middle class cousin -- a young unmarried lawyer living with his mother in Manchester. This is just the beginning of the intricate plot in which the servant circle (butlers, house keepers, valets, footmen, house maids, ladies maids, cooks, kitchen maids, grooms, chauffeurs) is very much involved.
The eve of the first world war, the changing status of women, the rising of the middle class, and the emergence of socialism made the early twentieth century (perhaps, much as the early twenty-first) a time of unavoidable change from a distant world we no longer observe. Can't wait for the second series, already scheduled to air in England in the Fall. Finally, just a pearl.
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