Julian Fellowes

SPOILER ALERT!

The Best Memes About the Shocking ‘Gilded Age’ Cliffhanger

We gasped!

Clare Donaldson

WE ARE AGHAST

The Funniest Memes From That Shocking 'Gilded Age' Episode

Hot tip for period drama characters: Stay out of the streets!

Clare Donaldson

The Daily Beast’s Obsessed

Why Did the New ‘Downton Abbey’ Movie Make Me Cry So Much?

The glorious experience of being whisked to the English countryside, watching some fancy people bicker about place settings, and then crying for 40 straight minutes.

Kevin Fallon

ROYAL AFFAIR

Yes, the ‘Downton Abbey’ Movie Really Is Important Right Now

Creator Julian Fellowes takes us inside the new film, the show’s popularity, and why, “in such disturbed times,” we crave the simple pleasures of “Downton.”

Kevin Fallon

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IT’S BACK, M’LUD

This Is What Should Happen in ‘Downton’

<p>Prepare the cucumber sandwiches. The sixth and final season of <i>Downton Abbey</i> begins Sunday, with personal and romantic travails anew for the Granthams and their servants.</p>

Tim Teeman

GOODBYE

How to End ‘Downton Abbey’

Whatever else we can expect from the final season of the hit period soap opera, expect Julian Fellowes’s honeyed view of the past and social order to stay intact.

Tim Teeman