Did “Downton Abbey” Jump The Shark?
That’s the question asked by James Fenton, a noted poet and man of action who made some millions when he took a stab at doing the book for “Les Miz.” Members of the British chattering classes taking a few shots at “Downton” has become as predictable as was the revulsion toward Merchant-Ivory movies among the same set in the early 1990s. But Fenton does have some fondness for the series; his questions about the show’s historical inaccuracies are just.
