EPISODE
SEASON
Downton Abbey - Season 5
Season 5 of the international hit finds the Crawley family and the staff struggling with responsibilities and choices as they adjust to life in the Roaring Twenties.
26 April 1956, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK
1980, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
1961, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK
25 September 1964, Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
22 September 1979, Sundsvall, Västernorrlands län, Sweden
1964, Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
7 June 1991, Surrey, England, UK
5 May 1957, Mbabane, Union of South Africa [now Swaziland]
16 July 1948, UK
27 November 1961, Kensington, London, England, UK
6 June 1982, Hertfordshire, England, UK
5 April 1989, Esher, Surrey, England, UK
June 29, 2016
Downton Abbey Season 5 may cover some familiar ground, but its steps are so lively, the company so delightful, and the scenery so fine, it's a trip well worth taking.
June 29, 2016
It seems like the series is ready to reinvent itself. Perhaps not too much but enough to keep viewers tuning in.
June 29, 2016
Even the new stories feel like variations on the old ones.
June 29, 2016
I'm here to tell you you're in for a devil of a good old time, because bad new times await the Crawley clan.
June 29, 2016
This is a season heavily interested in the choices - particularly the love lives and sex lives - of women of all ages and classes.
June 29, 2016
Downton is back, and maybe it's all too familiar, but it's still a lot of fun.
June 29, 2016
The prettiest soap opera on TV continues to offer a refuge from the present while mirroring contemporary attitudes and evolutions.
June 29, 2016
Maggie Smith rules the fifth season of Downton Abbey, PBS' lavish and still-delectable serial.
June 29, 2016
Downton has entered the sweetspot phase of its life span, whatever that will ultimately be: A place of creative equipoise, where characters can and will be taken to a place of Fellowes' choosing, and fans will happily follow.
June 29, 2016
All's right with Downton Abbey, and for eight weeks at least, right for us.