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Some other personal favorite performances of mine are those of Joanne Froggatt, Rose Leslie, Dan Stevens, Penelope Wilton, and Siobhan Finneran. The three daughters of Bonneville and McGovern are quite well-acted, with Michelle Dockery's performance as the eldest as the one of note, and those of Laura Carmichael and Jessica Brown-Findlay also quite good.

Also featured are British mainstays of these sorts of series including Brendan Coyle, Jim Carter, and Phyllis Logan. Also fantastic are Hugh Bonneville as the Earl and Elizabeth McGovern as his wife. Her line delivery will make you at least chuckle 75-90% of the time. The acting is top-notch, with Maggie Smith leading the bunch with one of the best performances (stage, film, TV, or otherwise) of her illustrious career as the proper, conservative, yet fiery grandmother/mother, the Dowager Countess. A succession crisis of sorts as well as a sex scandal are thrown into the mix. Set in Yorkshire and using Highclere Castle in Hampshire as the manor house, the story line begins with the sinking of the Titanic and continues to the end of the 1st season and the outbreak of World War I. It juggles multiple complicated story lines deftly and the direction is equally skillful (especially that of Brian Percival).

A better production than Gosford Park by leaps and bounds, I was absolutely blown away by the screenplay. Fellowes, who won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Gosford Park, and his screenwriting capabilities have improved exponentially since 2001. After the first 10-15 minutes of episode 1, I was hooked. I looked on Netflix, and lo-and-behold, it was viewable instantly. That was until the series won the Emmy for Best Mini-Series/TV Movie. After first hearing about the series over 1 year ago through my love of the script of Gosford Park and its writer, Julian Fellowes, I honestly forgot about it. The Emmy-winning mini-series-turned-series has been called the 'Upstairs, Downstairs' of this generation, but in my limited experience with the latter, Downton takes the cake, several cakes if you will. These are 3 of the plethora of adjectives I could use to describe the triumph that is Downton Abbey.

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