Last Night’s “Downton”
I’d almost forgotten that I’d watched the episode in September, when it aired in the U.K. It’s cozy and comforting to see all our favorites again: the Dowager, Lady Mary, and the suddenly sexualized Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes. But opening the episode with a hunt was such a clanging cliche that I realized that I was, finally, ready to let this series go. It’s become a silly soap opera with Ralph Lauren backdrops.
