The three Downton Abbey films —now capped off, with a flourish, by Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale —are an anomaly, a movie-franchise spinoff of a popular television show that’s rich and entertaining enough to get people out of their living rooms. This is a case where people who have already gotten to know these characters and their travails on a small screen (the show ran for six seasons) are happy to spend extra money to bask in their further joys, sorrows, and anxieties writ large, on a big screen. There’s so much to look at in The Grand Finale that I suspect you could go in cold, without having seen a single episode of the show or one of the other two movies, and still find pleasure in it. You don't have to worry much about the plot; just show up and gawp.

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