Downton Abbey what the fuss is all about

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - When "

Downton Abbey

" was announced as a leader of all those awards -- six, out of 11 nominations -- during final year's Emmy ceremony, many viewers were substantially wondering a) what "Downton Abbey" was and b) if someone had left an additional "w" out of a title.

But as a "

Upstairs, Downstairs

"-ish British play prepares to entrance a second deteriorate on PBS Sunday (check internal listings for time and channel), copiousness of TV fans have taken a time to locate adult with a seven-episode initial deteriorate on DVD and Netflix.

And if you've remained one of a "Downton Abbey" uninitiated, don't let that shock we divided from deteriorate two. Here are 12 things we need to know to be prepared to take a tour down "Abbey" road:

1 -- It unequivocally is "Downton," not "Downtown." Downton Abbey refers to a (fictional) North Yorkshire estate that houses a rich

Crawley

family and their servants. Highclere Castle, a 61-bedroom Victorian manse where all a "upstairs" scenes of a uncover are filmed, is an hour outward London and is open to a public.

2 -- Season one starts in Apr 1912, a day after a falling of a Titanic. The real-world tragedy factors into a plot, as a Earl and Countess of Grantham -- a Crawleys -- have 3 daughters, no sons, that means there's no masculine successor to get their happening and a Downton Abbey estate. They had organised for their oldest daughter, Mary (Michelle Dockery), to marry her cousin, that would have kept their titles, happening and estate in a family, yet a cousin was among those who died in a Titanic sinking.

3 -- Season one finished with a stipulation of World War I, that factors heavily into a storylines of deteriorate two. Downton Abbey, for instance, becomes a liberation core for bleeding soldiers, that unsettles

Countess Cora

(Elizabeth McGovern) -- who feels like she's losing control of her home -- and

Earl Robert

(Hugh Bonneville) -- who's dissapoint that he's too aged to join in a fight efforts.

4 -- "Abbey" is a sensuous and expensively constructed dress drama, yet even viewers who don't customarily balance in for "Masterpiece Theater" play might suffer a soapy, humorous elements of a show. Lady Mary's adore life, for instance, provides both, as she is seduced by a caller to Abbey, who afterwards dies in her bed. Public trust that a unwed Crawley mislaid her decency to a foreigner would infer to be scandalous, so Mary's mom and conduct housemaid Anna assistance her lift his passed physique behind to his bed. Later, Mary and Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens), a new apparent successor to a family fortune, conduct toward coupledom, and their enigma continues to play out, in some startling ways, in deteriorate two.

5 -- There's play and intrigue "downstairs," too. Mr. Bates (Brendan Coyle), a harmed fight oldster hired as a Earl's valet, has a thang for Anna (Joanne Froggatt). The feeling is mutual, yet their trail will be a hilly one in deteriorate two, as a blast from Bates' past puts their intrigue -- and his life -- in jeopardy.

6 -- And there's upstairs/downstairs romance. Crawley daughter Sybil (Jessica Brown-Findlay) and family chauffeur Tom Branson (Allen Leech) were accessible in deteriorate one, and turn friendlier in deteriorate two, as events surrounding a fight lead them to trust a amicable barriers to them being a integrate are violation down.

7 -- Maggie Smith won an Emmy as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her purpose as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, a.k.a. Earl Robert's feisty, nosiness mama. Violet has an nervous attribute with her daughter-in-law, Cora, even yet it was American heiress Cora's income that helped safeguard a Crawley family's stature. When a Titanic deaths bluster to take Downton Abbey and a family's income divided from Cora and Robert's daughters, Violet and Cora group adult to make certain that doesn't happen.

8 -- "Downton Abbey" baddie Thomas (Rob James-Collier), a mansion's initial servant and a consistent schemer, resorted to extort and framing people for crimes they didn't dedicate to try and get his possess way. He wanted Bates' pursuit and framed him for stealing, unsuccessfully, to try to get it, and blackmailed a Duke of Crowborough, his former lover, with exposing their happy affair. In deteriorate two, Thomas signs adult for a Medical Corp in an bid to equivocate battle, and when that doesn't work … well, he's got a intrigue for that, too.

9 -- Season one of "Downton Abbey" is in a Guinness World Records book for a Highest Critical Review Ratings for a TV Show after receiving a 92 out of 100 measure on Metacritic.

10 -- The array was combined by Julian Fellowes, a Oscar-winning author of "Gosford Park." In fact, in a book "The World of Downton Abbey" -- created by Julian Fellowes' niece Jessica Fellowes -- he says associate "Downton" writer Gareth Neame helped hint a thought for "Downton Abbey" when he suggested Fellowes revisit a domain of "Godford Park," yet for television.

(news.yahoo.com)