Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Season 3 Tv And Movie Guide

							Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Season 3
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Description
The Great War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton
Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic
English country estate for a third thrilling season. As other great houses are crippled
psychologically and financially in the wake of World War I, Robert, Earl of Grantham, sticks to his
duty to maintain Downton more firmly than ever. But in this changing landscape nothing is
assured, and could it be that even the war-weary Crawleys must fight a new battle to safeguard
their beloved Downton?

The returning cast includes Hugh Bonneville, Dame Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern, Dan
Stevens, Michelle Dockery, Jim Carter, Penelope Wilton, Joanne Froggatt, Brendan Coyle and a
host of others, joined by Shirley MacLaine, who plays Martha Levinson, the very American
mother of Cora, Countess of Grantham. Written and created by Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey,
Season 3 is a Carnival Films and Masterpiece co-production, in association with NBCUniversal.




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Actors
Maggie Smith

Hugh Bonneville

Shirley Maclaine

Elizabeth McGovern


Customer Review
The much anticipated Downton Abbey Series 3 starts in Spring 1920, carrying on from the
superb Christmas Special which was set over the 1919/20 holiday period. The first episode
picks up with Lady Mary and Matthew Crawley at last about to get hitched, but as usual there
is quite a lot going on at Downton both above and below stairs and you just know that
nothing is going to go smoothly.

Shirley Maclaine makes her appearance as Martha
Levinson, Lady Grantham's American mother. As usual,
Violet, played by Maggie Smith manages to set the
scene with some rather pithy comments. Martha has
no time for the stuffy English and their traditions and is
not slow to voice her opinion. Clearly she was
introduced as a foil to Maggie Smith and the interplay
between the two does work very well as one suspected
it would. Violet seems to manage to continue to
dominate any scene she is in.

There are plenty of dramatic moments in the new
series, as life on the Downton estate returns to more
as it was shown in the first series, before the First World War when it served as a
convalescent home for injured servicemen. However, there are new challenges for Downton
in the post war period. The interaction between the family and those that serve them `below
stairs' continues to be a rich source of story lines for the script writers and is a major
contribution to the success of the show.

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