Just started watching Season 3. I have been contemplating buying Season 1 and 2 on DVD. A couple of moments struck me as funny...the Earl of Grantham's valet can't get a white tie for the Earl for dinner...so that is a crisis. Britain just came through a World War and the outbreak of Spanish Flu which claimed many lives and wearing a black tie to dinner was a crisis? Then when the Crawley family possibly was going to lose Downtown Abbey because of a bad financial investment, so they went to visit their smaller house (hunting lodge) as their next home. I was expecting a two room shack in the woods. The hunting lodge was much larger than most American homes. The Irish son-in-law (former chauffeur) also commented that most people live in much smaller homes than the hunting lodge. And if they did move to the hunting lodge, they would only need 8 servants. Imagine trying to survive with only 8 servants!
But I do like the show.