Many apologies to the in-house staff psychiatrist at the
Daily Telegraph, but I’m going to have to break it to them, no matter how far
back it sets their and their readers’ collective therapy: Downton
Abbey is not real.
There is no such place. The people in it are made up. None of this actually happened.
In fact, Downton Abbey is an ITV Sunday evening drama. Like
Wild at Heart, or Heartbeat, or Where the Heart Is, it is designed to send you off
to bed, all sleepy, cosy and nostalgaic, rather than wallowing in the usual end-of-weekend black pit of despair.
You must let go of the tragic delusion that it is the most
important thing happening in Britain.
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