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Have you ever felt that combination of anticipation and dread at the same time? Well, you may now. The trailer for the sixth season of Downton Abbey is here. Stiff upper lip, everyone! It's going to take a great deal of fortitude to face this last (SOB!) season.
All we know so far is that the series picks up in 1925, just a few months after season five left off. In the trailer you see windows closing, people trudging around slowly and talk of not being able to hold back time. All of this can only mean one thing: The entire series is going to be one long good-bye. It's depressing as hell. I can barely stand watching it.
A couple of happy things happen in the trailer, though. You see Anna smile and some guy helps Edith with her coat (Mr. Pelham?). Oh wait -- and the Dowager Countess is still around! YES. That doesn't mean they won't kill her off anyway, but at least there's more Violet.
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Meanwhile, Carson's name is removed from the door. Yes, it's because he's going to marry Mrs. Hughes and live happily ever after, but SIGH. Most disturbing of all is the way everyone keeps looking at Downton Abbey itself like it's going away ... or like they're going away from IT! What is that about?!? Does this mean that financial ruin the Crawleys are always flirting with finally comes to pass and the family loses its grip on the family property?
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We'll have to watch and see. Or not. I suspect that while some of us need that season-long good-bye, others of us can't even bear to watch this last season of Downton Abbey. We'll be the ones with our fingers in our ears, going "la la la I can't hear you talking about the last season this show will go on forever gonna watch season five again now byeeee."
Remember, the new series begins across the pond in September, but for the U.S. it's January 3, 2016.
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