Movie Review: The Crawleys — and their matriarch — get a loving sendoff in final 'Downton Abbey'

Change comes slowly to the Downton Abbey universe and its Crawley family. Just watch Robert Crawley go flat-hunting in London.

Wait, what? FLAT-HUNTING? The Earl of Grantham? Well, yes, and it’s the most amusing scene in “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” (a self-announcing title if there ever was one).

Just look at proud and starched Robert (Hugh Bonneville), trying to be open-minded but utterly flummoxed by this “flat” in which you cannot go “up” to bed because there is no “up.” Well, you can go “along” to bed, suggests daughter Mary (Michelle Dockery, as always the sensible center of things) trying to make it all sound manageable.

But the prospect of flat-living — rather than maintaining a mansion in London — is a thing the Crawleys must consider as they move into the 1930s, with fina