Think Sense and Sensibility meets Upstairs Downstairs and you can imagine Masterpiece Theater's Downton Abbey. Set before WWI, the heir to a magnificent estate dies when the Titanic sinks. Currently, a family with three daughters of marriageable age and no sons lives in the castle. The plan had been for the oldest daughter Mary, who's a bit wild or spirited, to marry the former heir.
Enter Matthew, the third cousin who really doesn't care to take over Downton Abbey. During the course of the seven episodes of season one, we see Matthew and his mother establish themselves in the village, often in conflict with the current occupants of the house.
OF equal interest is the lives of the servants, led by a dignified butler Mr. Carson who needs to keep a close on on some of the less scrupulous members of the staff.
There's plenty of honor, dignity, backbiting, and intrigue. Oh, as for the romance, the mother and father have a sweet relationship which did start with an attraction for Mrs. Grantham's fortune. Both the family and the servants have budding romance in their midst, but no one is lucky in love.
Season two should be broadcast in the winter of 2012.
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