`Downton Abbey´ is overstuffed guilty pleasure
(WorldNews Health)

How fitting that “Downton Abbey� — the movie version of the tony British soap opera whose first episode opened with a telegram about the sinking of the Titanic — begins with the mailing of a letter. As the camera follows the journey of that humble envelope and its contents from London to Yorkshire, via train, car and, finally, silver platter, we are treated to a vision of the titular grand manor: the sprawling country home of the aristocratic Crawley family, rising up to greet us like a great, beautiful beast awakening from a slumber of three years. (The series went off the air in 2016.) This is architecture as litmus test. If...