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‘Downton Abbey’ Recap: Episode Seven (Season Three Finale)

Dan Stevens as Matthew Crawley (Nick Wall/Carnival Film & Television)

It’s all over except for the crying. And the crying is going to go on for a while.

‘Downton Abbey’ Recap: Season Three, Episode Six

Brendan Coyle as John Bates. (PBS)

Last night’s double-length episode of Downton Abbey neatly tied up with ribbons and bows several major storylines that had been building all season. It also laid the groundwork for a potential plot complication or two to come.

‘Downton Abbey’ Recap: Season Three, Episode Five

From left to right: Penelope Wilton as Isobel, Maggie Smith as Violet,  Dan Stevens as Matthew, Hugh Bonneville as Lord Grantham, Allen Leech as Tom, Ruairi Conaghan as Kieran Branson, Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary, Elizabeth McGovern as Cora and Laura Carmichael as Edith (Giles Keyte/Carnival Film & Television Limited 2012 for MASTERPIECE)

This was the episode where Robert Crawley, Lord Grantham, seemed as if he was doing his best to win the Upper Class Twit Award that was once handed out in an old Monty Python routine. While he has been proving himself an objectionable ...

‘Downton Abbey’ Recap: Season Three, Episode Four

Jessica Brown-Findlay as Lady Sybil and Allen Leech as Tom Branson (Carnival Film & Television Limited 2012 for MASTERPIECE)

Get out your hanky. Death showed up at Downton Abbey – I mean metaphorically.

‘Downton Abbey’ Recap: Season Three, Episode Three

Bates doing time (PBS)

In a departure from earlier episodes this season, not a single character in last night’s show got married or was jilted. Still, there was plenty going on both upstairs and downstairs at Downton Abbey.

‘Downton Abbey’ Recap: Season Three, Episode Two

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Poor, poor Edith. She had an especially bad time of it in last night’s episode of Downton Abbey.

‘Downton Abbey’ Recap: Season Three, Episode One

The long wait for season three is over. (ITV)

Downton Abbey is back and all is right with the world, if not at Downton Abbey itself.

There’s trouble upstairs and downstairs at the titular, grand manor house at the heart of the popular British series that began airing its third season last night on PBS.