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Fellowes fluffs it: Downton Abbey – A New Era reviewed

There are some truly terrible lines in this manipulative and predictable sequel

Penelope Wilton as Isobel Merton and Maggie Smith as Violet Crawley, who inexplicably isn’t given a single witty line to say
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