Is that shirley on the left? No poise.
There were only 5 good minutes of entertainment in the whole 2 hour opener. It was when Shirley MacLaine sang “Let Me Call You sweetheart” to Maggie Smith! I laughed out loud.
The rest was pointless. The Anna/Bates thing is extremely boring and going nowhere.
Now that Mary and Matthew are married, there’s no more dramatic tension for that duo. What are they going to argue about besides money?
Sybil was the most beautiful and interesting, and now they are writing her out of the plot.
The downstairs folks are a bunch of stereotypical drones.
And not a really good-looking man in the whole cast!
It will never replace the original “Upstairs, Downstairs.”