Its the end of the world asDownton Abbeyknows it, and no one is feeling fine about it.
Call it trickle-down anxiety.
Neither you nor I can hold back time, Robert tells Carson in the premiere.
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Who has an underbutler these days?!
No one sweats more than Thomas (Robert James-Collier), the gay underbutler.
Its a powerful, resonant arc.
But its the women ofDownton Abbeywho drive the show.
Sometimes he sits back too much, more content with symbolic statements than drama.
The bickering grows tedious, but builds to a defining moment.
More relational mergers and more personal gender politics charge the seasons second half.
