This is my post for the first season of Downton Abbey. Kara was insistent that I watch this show as we had watched several of my shows together. I figured it was fair that I gave it a shot to even the score. We watched the first season over 2 days. As there aren't many episodes this was fairly easy to accomplish. Heavy Spoilers to follow:
The show tells the fictitious story of the British family that runs Downton Abbey in a semi historically correct setting. The first episode features the family learning that the ship The Titanic has sunk. This news is especially important to the Crawley family because the heir to their Abbey, and ultimately their fortune was on the Titanic when it sank. The family then learns that there is a new heir, Matthew, and that their fortune is permanently linked to the Abbey. The rest of the season depicts the every day happenings of the house from dinner parties, to their daughters courtships and general upkeep.
The house and the story is divided into two factions. There are the family that "owns" the house and this includes the mother, father and three daughters. Notice there are no sons, therefore no heir in the immediate family. The other half of the house and the show is made up of the staff that runs the house. The staff includes the Butler, the female equivelant of the butler for the wife, the ladys maids that take care of the daughters, the footmen, cooks for cooking and the chauffeur to drive the, relatively new, car.
The season ends with some news that may change the scope of the family and the country as war is declared with Germany.
P.S. I am getting into the show. Please nobody tell Kara that she was right. I will never hear the end of it!
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