Downton Abbey Movie Is All About The Crawley Women

Without spoiling anything, a pivotal dramatic reveal crystallizes the idea that Downton Abbey isn’t just about passing the torch from generation to generation; it’s also centered around the rise of women, finally carving out a place for themselves in a world that wasn’t designed for them. In the first episode, it was unthinkable that Mary would ever play any real role beyond the glamorous wife of a peer. Now, she holds sway over the lives of an entire community, and what’s more, she cares! Her relationship with Anne, meanwhile, is far closer to confidant and friend than employer, employee. Lady Grantham, who nearly passed out at the thought of her daughter in bed with the Turkish attache, is now running a hospital and plotting and scheming with the best of them. Edith, once a wallflower, has the biggest job of them all, even if it’s not the one she would have chosen. And in just three decades, they’ll all be singing “God Save The Queen.”