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The events take place over about a decade somewhere around World War I (not quite sure how long before or after the timeline extends so far) in three seasons even though the characters don't seem to age any more than their actors. Everyone has really great eloquent one-liners and the costumes and hairstyles are pure porn. Seriously, they look so damn fine.

The main family is called the Crawleys and they're super-rich with an epic castle house and have loads of servants. Some fucking gorgeous lady with the awesomest eyebrows I've ever seen is called Lady Mary and she's either the main character or a fan favorite, not sure which. She's in love with this blond dude called Matthew who apparently has the same last name as her (...do I even want to know?) who punched some smarmy asshole in the face, but a bunch of stuff happens that stops them from getting together. Part of it is that he was fighting in the war, and part of it was that he got a fiancee called Lavinia for some reason. Mary did something bad that she gets blackmailed for, I think. She and her sister Ethel are dicks to each other. Matthew and Mary got married and spent a lot of time talking in bed, and then he died in a car crash, which sucks. Everybody went batshit fucking insane when this happened.

Sybil is the youngest daughter I think? Not quite sure. She's rebellious and was a nurse and eloped with one of the servants. I think she really likes this old doctor who she did nursing stuff with. I'm not sure exactly why, but it seems like a lot of the characters spend a lot of time away from home in a hospital full of wounded soldiers? Or am I missing something about the hospital's location? Sybil died of something because of some incompetent doctor who -- replaced? Undermined? I don't quite get it -- the old doctor who Sybil liked.

Maggie Smith plays someone called the Dowager Countess Violet. She has better lines and more opinions than Lord Henry Wotton from The Picture of Dorian Gray and her comments can be reaction-gif'd to anything. I'm seriously thinking of watching the show just for her. I'm not sure who she is or why she's always hanging around but her last name is Crawley so maybe she's like an aunt or in-law or something?

Thomas is gay, which is bad in this time period, and he is either kind of a douchebag or just has a beef with a popular character -- hard to tell with fandom. He tried to kiss some pretty guy-servant and got in trouble for it, but fans thought that the fact that the guy-servant didn't return his feelings was sadder than him going to jail or something. I don't know how this storyline ended or if it's on a cliffhanger or what.

Mrs. Patmore is the cook and she yells at people all the time and says "the trouble with you all is that you're all in love with the wrong people" which fans say totally sums up the show, so I'm gonna assume the show has a lot more romantic subplots than I've been able to pick out.

Everyone wants Mrs. Hughes and Mr. Carson to get together. Mrs. Hughes is super sweet and unrealistically progressive and...had cancer? A friend had cancer? Was it Mrs. Patmore who had cancer? I'm unclear. I think they're like, head servants or something? Is he the butler? Everyone thinks he's adorable because he's really melodramatic about his ~duty~ and obsessed with things being ~proper~ and is super-devoted to the father of Lady Mary who I assume is the head of the family, who is played by that guy who played the pirate captain in Doctor Who. I assume they're not together seeing as how the main gifset that gets posted in support of this is not them kissing or confessing love or anything, but is this thing where he's singing some cute romantic song to himself while she secretly listens and smiles.

Some old maidservant called O'Brien is totally madly jealously in love with the mother (I think, unless she's their stepmother?) of Mary and Ethel and Sybil. I am not sure if this is canon or just shipping.

Everything bad happens to Bates, who...I'm not sure if he's a servant, but he's not a rich aristocrat guy. The universe hates his guts and he has a terrible, no-good, very bad life, which he never gets angry about. If anything bad can possibly happen to him, it happens, and they all happen one after another -- I don't know how much of an exaggeration this is, but apparently he went to jail for a while as a result of some elaborate scheme by someone who hated him. If anything good happens to him, about five bad things will happen to both counteract the good thing and make him feel guilty for it, I think. He's in love with Kate from Robin Hood, who is a maid and too young for him, but I listened to their theme from the soundtrack and it is the most heartbreakingly gorgeous thing EVER, so I believe there's more stuff under the surface there. I assume this is why he hasn't offed himself or gone on a killing spree.

This is really funny because it's almost right in some places, but also mostly wildly inaccurate and obviously tainted by fandom interpretations and shipping.

Could you please give me more details on what's accurate and what's not? I would be really interested in knowing, because a lot of the things I really can't tell how serious fans are being about their claims, even though I know how fans operate in other fandoms. It would amuse me a lot to see which of my impressions were totally fanon-influence :D

Well, the main family is Grantham, not Crawley. Matthew Crawley is the blond guy and he's a cousin of Lord Grantham (the guy you said was a pirate in Dr. Who?). Mary Grantham is Lady Eyebrows and she's the oldest daughter but can't inherent Downton because ew girls. So, Matthew is brought in to be heir and he and Mary eventually hook up but then he dies and yeah, it sucked.

The fandom interpretation (and I think it's mostly a joke) is that O'Brien is in love with Lafy Cora (Lord Grantham's wife), but what really happens is O'Brien is the head ladies maid and she needs to be needed because it's her job and because she wants to be Lady Cora's favorite. So, she let's her slip in the bath which induces a miscarriage. It had nothing to do with being in love with her and ever thing to do with wanting Lady Cora to need her as head ladies maid. It makes her look good to the family and makes her look good to the staff, though the staff know she's pretty manipulative and conniving.

Maggie Smith's character is Lord Grantham's mother. She's not a Crawley either.

Sybil is rebellious and marries a servant and dies during childbirth, though I don't really remember a doctor subplot besides the one where Lord Grantham dilly-dallied in getting her help because he wanted to take the advice of some showy, famous doctor instead of the village doctor.

Everything terrible happens to Bates and his- now- wife Anna, that's true.

Also, Thomas is gay and also he's a manipulative, conniving little snake and I love him so much.

Sorry but...part of that is incorrect. In british aristocracy "Lord Grantham" is his title, not his last name. Grantham refers to the place he is the lord of -- so, Robert Crawley is the Earl of Grantham, and he's also referred to as just plain "Lord Grantham", which is the colloquial way of addressing a lord of such and such a place. But his last name IS Crawley and the same goes for everyone in the family -- Robert Crawley, Cora Clawley, Mary Crawley, Violet Crawley, etc.

Oh man, you are right on that one. I looked up how they are actually credited and that's right. Shows what I know about British aristocracy and titles. (Hint: nothing.) thanks for the info.

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