Downton Abbey the movie: what we learned from the trailer

There is still a stately home in England where the certainties of class prevail, and servants stand by to clean up the mess. But good luck divining Julian Fellowes’ plot from these endless exterior shots

For five years, Downton Abbey was a television institution. The series, which followed the ups and downs of the Crawley family through the first quarter of the 20th century, was a commercial juggernaut. It won Emmys, Baftas and Golden Globes by the bucketload. It was namechecked in Iron Man 3, for crying out loud. You can’t buy accolades like that.

Downton Abbey died in 2015, after an epic Christmas Day finale that saw barely anything of note happen. And that, we thought, was that. Except this week, a trailer arrived. A trailer for a film. A trailer for the long-speculated Downton Abbey film, set for release in September. Finally, after years in the dark, we now know what will happen in this most anticipated of pictures. Let’s parse the trailer for juicy plot details.

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