Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025)

When this film came out, I was travelling, but as my mum had been trying to dodge spoilers for a week, we decided to go. So here it finally is, the last Downton Abbey film

The film in short
When Mary finds herself in a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.
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The Trailer

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My Thoughts
If someone can fight herself above a scandal, it’s our Mary. I was a bit iffy about wanting to see this film because I thought the whole thing had come to a good conclusion already, except for the fact that Mary’s husband sucked pretty bad, but then again, no one can be as great as Matthew (or my great second choice, Tom). Even though I had written the show that would have been a plotline, it sadly was not. Tom’s wife wasn’t in this film, though, and that was a small win.

Everyone did look quite a lot older suddenly, but it did work very well for us to ‘know’ that a lot of time had passed.

Something I did find funny was that Mary, after having sex with someone, was saying that it wasn’t here and that she did not approve. When Mary is a bit of a slag and has been from the start. We, of course, don’t love her any less for it.

All jokes aside, I liked how Edith finally became her own woman and stopped being so jealous of Mary. I thought it was great that they had a good relationship in this film. I did enjoy the moment in time this whole thing took place. We started at the sinking of the Titanic, and we ended right at the stock market crash in America. We saw this family weather the storms of two world wars, of getting a telephone and going from silent films to talking pictures, and it’s so vast and massive, but also so very much the same. Over time, we have seen people who hardly ever went downstairs (where it was rather strange if they did) to being asked (and happily agreed) to be a Godparent.

I think the film had enough new things to keep it fresh, but a massive nod to everything that had come before. Frankly, by the end, I thought Yes, this is a good ending and then we saw Mary remembering all her loved ones and all the things that happened in that house, and I was bawling my eyes out. It was a grand finale to a really great series.

You can also read my review of the series and the 2019 film, as well as the 2022 film.