I'll be posting some recommendations from my students every week. They will be commenting on books, TV series and films, which they have watched and enjoyed in English. Belen, one of my CAE students at Paraninfo has kindly contributed this summary of the TV series Downtown Abbey:
Downton Abbey is a period tv series about an aristocratic family and all their servants.
During 1912, their lives were pretty uneventful, until the dramatical incident of the Titanic happened, where the heir of the fortune and the Dowton Abbey castle dies in the shipwreck.
In that moment, the problem to find a new heir turns into the storyline of the drama.
The earl and countess of Grantham do not have any sons, only three daughters, and they can’t inherit the fortune.
The new heir is a distant cousin of the family who works as a lawyer. At first, he does not like the aristocratic family very much because of his modest origin of a middle class family.
(Careful some spoilers ahead!)
Little by little they realize that he lives in a real world and they accept him.
The sophisticated and classist customs of the aristocracy started to change with the arrival of the first world war. The war changes their lifes and their minds.
Afterwards, the older daughter of the earl falls in love with the heir and they get married.
The tv series talks about the common problems of the society of this age, like the differences between the working class and the high class, the problems of the post war era, an antiquated mentality of the society and the right to vote of the women.
I specially recommend this tv series to women, because I think it is the target of a period movie. Also, those people who like stories about the world war and the early 20th centuy.
You can buy the first series here
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