Downton Abbey Season 6 Episode 9 | 1h 33m 50s | Video has closed captioning. After six passionate and poignant seasons, the curtain comes down on “Downton Abbey.” How will fate resolve the stories of Edith, Mary, Thomas, Anna, Robert, Cora, Daisy, Carson, Violet, Isobel and all the other occupants of this
unforgettable house? Aired: 03/06/16 Rating: TV-PG From:  Funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking and Raymond James with additional support from public television viewers and contributors to The MASTERPIECE Trust, created to help ensure the series’ future. Sponsored By: The final season of Downton is both satisfying and disappointing. All the main stories are suitably wrapped up and there are hints that maybe a few years down the road we will see George and his generation in WWII. Honestly I am torn if I want this or not. Nice to visit old friends, but I might prefer my own imaginings to what Julien Fellows would pen as I found Downton's swan song rushed with people seemingly shoved together just so they had someone to ride off into the sunset with. Not to mention three seasons of depressing murder and rape plots I need never go through again. Did anyone really care who killed the rapist? He was a rapist, he is dead, cheer and move on. Spoilers below. The romantic entanglements of the Crawley family largely drove the plot of the previous five seasons so I am bewildered as to why Mary, Edith and Tom wind up with barely established characters. Yes, Mary got her first proposal from Matthew in one season, but he was a major character in 6 out of 7 episodes of that year. Henry Talbot was gorgeous and affable, got about five minutes of screen time in the season five finale and wasn't seen again until episode four of season six. Even then he was barely used. Just as we are never told why Tony Gillingham wasn't the one other than he wasn't right, we are never told why Henry is. Even Lord Grantham can't figure it out. They knew this was the last season, why did they waste so much time on the losers in season five instead of establishing Henry much earlier on? Why was he not present from episode one of season six? Truly it feels like they expected the show to have seven seasons and when waning ratings in the UK had ITV pulling the plug, continued with their steady build plan and then rushed the ending. Had they struggled this year and married in season seven I would have no complaints, but no matter how many times Mary or Edith comment their romances are moving fast (much as Rose did last season) it doesn't excuse the lack of story building. It can be excused for a secondary character like Rose, but not with two leads. While Edith was never a favorite, I would have liked to know her spouse better. He seemed nice. And don't get me started on Tom's last minute shuffle to Ms. Edmunds. Yes, she is better than the date raping maid or the obnoxious teacher but who is she beyond being an editor? Romance by plot points doesn't do it for me. The real romance, the one that had time put into it, that would have given the Crawleys one final scandal was Mary and Tom. He supported and encouraged her, she trusts him, imagine if he went to America to escape having to watch her marry another and confessed he returned because near her was all he wanted. As against the idea as I was in season four when everyone pushed it, it felt right now and would explain why Mary was so down about him leaving. But no, strangers all around as love interests. Robert gets a new dog and Cora gets a new job. Violet runs away from home in a snit and Isobel takes Lord Merton back to save him from his awful family. Barrow winds up with the house as his life partner about the only relationship that was built over six years that was left unresolved; however, Carson's one episode of shaky hands and suddenly its palsy and he must retire is another hurried plot point to bring it about. The previously dimwitted Mosely is suddenly smart enough to be a teacher and Daisy remains my least favorite character. Annoying when she was always chasing a guy, more so when she let Mrs. patmore bully her into leading William on so she could whine they made a liar of her for two years, she steps into odious territory with her constant snarks about life in service and how the Crawleys, who should have fired her when she had her sit in, are awful to her. No one made her go into service, no one is making her stay. Stop griping and quit. After costing Mr. Mason his home and living by shooting off her mouth heedlessly, she still wants to rant at Cora that she is owed something she assumed she was getting and took as a promise when none was made. They write her like she is a young girl when, if she was 17 in season one, she would now be 30, a full adult and, by rights, should be less stupid. Edith gets the mega happy ending. Does she deserve happiness? Yes. A guy, a big title, an estate and uber riches? No. She sowed too much misery. Season one she outed Mary's Turkish tryst out of spite. In 1913 that, as we saw, was a life destroyer. People today don't understand how such a thing could ruin a woman, it was totally wrong that it would, but it did and Edith, reader of her sister's diary, Eavesdropper, and catty remark marker in her own right in season one, meant to ruin Mary. So I very much think she deserved what Mary did to her with Marigold in season six. Turnabout being fair play. But then we must consider that Edith's nasty letter came to the attention of Bates' first wife, leading her on the blackmail trail to Downton where she made Anna and Bates miserable and then made us all miserable with the stupid murder plot. Yes, that is Edith's fault and she never once showed remorse. She deserved every snark Mary aimed at her for that and yet wanted to sulk. The worst crime Edith committed was in yanking her daughter out of two homes. Rosamund admonishes her for taking baby Marigold from the Swiss family, but Edith shrugs it off because they got another baby. My grandparents had a birth mother do that to them, and went on to adopt other children, but let me tell you, that is not a hurt you forget. What Edith did there was awful, what she did next was reprehensible. She left Marigold with the Drews for a year or two, hard to tell with Downton, made a nuisance of herself and then ripped Marigold away. I don't care how well Marigold knew Edith, any child that age would be wailing to go back to the mother she knew, not calmly sitting there on a train. It would have traumatized the girl and perhaps given us a better story of Edith giving her back and being selfless because it was too cruel. Nope. She keeps the girl and it drives the Drews out of a home that had been in their family for centuries. If only the pointless blackmail plot from the first episode was Mrs. Drew threatening Edith instead of it being about Mary. Edith deserved the karma and it would have been more original. The most heartbreaking scene is the one where Carson, whose illness crops up out of nowhere and suddenly renders him useless because he can't pour drinks, is shuffled into retirement in the middle of Edith's reception. A horrified look from Mary who heads off to midwife Anna, a times are changing from Robert who goes back to the party and Carson is left to face crumble alone. It gives Thomas his HEA, but is a cruel blow to the heart of the house. Everyone gets a good end except Carson, that is rather mean. Downton has the type of end I like, we are given a sense of where it will go without ending it all (I feared they might lose the house) as if we might one day turn a corner and find the family out for a walk ready to invite us inside again. Thinking back on all that we followed them through I can't decide if Downton stayed too long at the party (nothing after season three really seems that great) or went home too soon (it feels like they needed one more year to flesh characters and stories out). Does Lady Edith marry Bertie?Lady Edith and Herbert “Bertie” Pelham
Edith and Bertie eventually reconciled, each admitting that they could not go on without the other, and got married in the Christmas special. Somewhere along the way, Bertie rose to marquess status, so Edith technically outranks her family.
Is Season 7 of Downton Abbey available?Downton Abbey is a 2010 British historical drama series. It portrayed the life of the rich aristocratic Crawley family. There were 6 seasons of the TV series. The last one was released in 2015 and there have been no further updates regarding the series.
What happens at end of Downton Abbey?In the film's final scene, Tom and Lucy visit Downton with their new baby, and Violet watches the family gather from a portrait above the mantle. Write to Eliana Dockterman at [email protected].
Where can I watch the finale of Downton Abbey?Use Amazon Prime.
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