{"id":13240,"date":"2019-11-03T22:06:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T03:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13240"},"modified":"2019-11-03T22:06:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T03:06:21","slug":"downton-abbey-2019-michael-engler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13240","title":{"rendered":"Downton Abbey (2019, Michael Engler)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A feature-length TV season, so every characters gets their moment, and it all feels squished and irrelevant, all “okay that’s out of the way, now here’s this.” Still mostly enjoyable, even for charlatans like me who quit the series after season 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Branson (the Irish chauffeur-turned-family-widower) is the star here, saving the king from assassination by Claire Foy’s husband, helping the princess (Kate Phillips of Peaky Blinders<\/em>) figure out her marriage, and possibly falling in love with an heiress (Sense8<\/em> star Tuppence Middleton), the secret daughter of Imelda Staunton (great, her addition to the movie helps offset Elizabeth McGovern being reliably awful).<\/p>\n

Eight years ago<\/a> I introduced the characters – but where are they now?<\/p>\n

Branson played Queen’s manager in Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em>. Lady Mary starred in the series Godless<\/em>, and was in that Jim Broadbent movie Sense of an Ending<\/em> with her barely-in-the-movie husband Matthew Goode. Maggie Smith, who anticlimactically tells Mary she’s dying, is keeping it classy – after the Harry Potter<\/em> and Marigold Hotel<\/em> movies, she appeared in Sherlock Gnomes<\/em>. I saw McGovern in The Commuter<\/a><\/em> and she’ll star in a War of the Worlds<\/em> miniseries with Gabriel Byrne. Lady Edith (pregnant again) is in another British period royalty drama series, and big daddy Hugh Bonneville is following Paddington 2<\/em> with a Christmas movie about a magic toymaker. Shaun’s mom followed The BFG<\/em> with a Ricky Gervais series.<\/p>\n

Bates (Mary Queen of Scots<\/em>) and Anna (Bob the Builder<\/em>) trick the royal servants so the locals can kowtow to the king personally, recruiting Carson (con-man movie The Good Liar<\/em>) and Hughes (starring in Girlfriends<\/em> with Miranda Richardson). Daisy (Iannucci’s David Copperfield<\/em> movie) flirts with the plumber, is set to marry some footman. Thomas (netflix horror The Ritual<\/em>) discovers a gay bar and gets into a side plot with some thudding dialogue, Molesley (plays a “ghost detective” on a British series) says some dumb things, and Patmore (an India-set period drama) does the usual. I was hoping the king and queen would be someone exciting, but she’s from Little Britain<\/em> and he played Arthur Dent in the original Hitchhiker’s Guide<\/em>, so, nope. The same writer & director made the dull-looking Elizabeth McGovern movie The Chaperone<\/em> earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A feature-length TV season, so every characters gets their moment, and it all feels squished and irrelevant, all “okay that’s out of the way, now here’s this.” Still mostly enjoyable, even for charlatans like me who quit the series after season 3. Branson (the Irish chauffeur-turned-family-widower) is the star here, saving the king from assassination […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,102,181,52],"class_list":["post-13240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-britain","tag-sequel","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13248,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240\/revisions\/13248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}