Is 'Downton Abbey' a conservative parable or straight from the playbook of Andrew Yang?
by Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
Sep 19, 2019
4 minutes
Pop quiz, readers. Name the central character in "Downton Abbey," the much-loved British TV show that recently became a movie.
Would that be Michelle Dockery's Lady Mary, the caustic heiress of an estate that she fears will not survive and the troubled character whose arc toward maturity and acceptance of her lot are at the core of Julian Fellowes' beloved TV scripts and, now, screenplay?
Maybe Maggie Smith's sardonic Dowager Countess of Grantham, the indestructible grande dame whose truisms and bon mots were sprinkled over six seasons of globally available television and whose forceful legacy is a huge part of the film?
Or Hugh Bonneville's
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