Downton Abbey brings out the snob in everyone, but it also confounds the snob in everyone: just when you think you’re above it all... someone will show someone else an unexpected kindness, and you’re a puddle again.

Downton Abbey: A New Era is cinematic escapism at its finest and perhaps that’s all it should be.

The second film continuation of the Brit series knows it’s old-hat and out of touch. But it’s also comforting fan service and if you can shut out the real world in favor of a fantasy remembrance of things past, you’re in for a treat.

It felt like a real movie with the exotic, international locations and a storyline that required introducing technology to Abbey in a way that is simultaneously humorous and historically accurate.