Downton Abbey - The Complete Collection [DVD]

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Meanwhile, Lady Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay) defies her aristocratic position and enlists in the Royal Army Nursing Corps and Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) puts on a brave face when Matthew arrives home on leave with his future wife, Lavinia Swire (Zoe Boyle), in tow. Violet then announces she plans to leave the villa in her will to young Sybbie – since she’s the least protected of her great-grandchildren. He’s a bit of a mystery when we first meet him, but Bates has a strong work ethic with unshakeable morals and is fiercely loyal to those he loves – especially his wife, Anna.

All 52 episodes of the award-winning ITV costume drama following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in an English stately home.In the second series, with the outbreak of World War I, Matthew (Dan Stevens) and Thomas (Rob James-Collier) are off fighting at the Somme, while both Lord Grantham and William (Thomas Howes) feel frustrated at being barred from taking part in the war. The series also introduces new characters: Lady Rose (the great-niece of the Dowager, Violet Crawley) and Cora’s American mother, Martha – played by Shirley Maclaine. I thought for a while that maybe there was an energy to do a third one, but I suspect that's probably not the case.

Neame states: “We can go on with these people as long as the audience wants to go on seeing them and as long as they enjoy them… And we can, you know, do that in all sorts of different ways. The same goes for Hugh Dancy as Jack Barber, the movie's director, and Laura Haddock as Myrna Dalgleish, the silent film star who adopts an American accent (with Cora's help) and heads to Hollywood to further her career in the 'talkies'. At the end of A New Era, Barrow accepts an offer from Dominic West's Guy Dexter to join him in America — which means we're likely not see West again, either. Her ultimate dreams are publishing books, writing and producing movies, traveling around the world, and forming a creative village of talented storytellers trying to change the world through art.He is more understanding and wants to honor his father’s wishes to leave the estate to Lady Violet (who leaves the villa in her own will to young Sybbie).