We’ve already been through the sinking of the Titanic, the First World War, Spanish Flu, women’s suffrage, Irish rebellion, and time continues to march on. The show is currently set in the early 1920s, but you know before long we’ll start hearing about Chamberlain and appeasement and Granny will probably talk about how the Nazis have some good ideas and everyone will shout her down. The show has to be getting more and more aware of its huge American audience and presumably will not be able to help catering to America’s romance surrounding the Second World War. It’s also shown a real lust for tragedy, so having Downton get bombed by the Germans may be a fitting course for the series. Disclaimer: I don’t know how much of this speculation is actually historically justifiable.
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