After garnering huge buzz in its first season, Julian Fellowes' "Downton Abbey" alienated some critics and fans during its second season.
Skeptics pointed to a barrage of soapy plot lines and implausible events (Matthew Crawley's post-war trauma, anyone?) Surprisingly, at least one of the show's stars also feels ambivalent about what went down recently in Grantham-land.
Elizabeth McGovern, who plays the countess Cora Crawley in the costume drama, says she wasn't entirely pleased with the recent direction of the series about the aristocracy in turmoil, which wrapped up its most recent stateside run on PBS this past February.
"There is a slightly different tone to the second season, partly because the show had to deal with this huge elephant which is the First World War, and in some ways 'Downton Abbey' wasn't set up for that," McGovern told Show Tracker.
"What's made the show successful and different is that attention to character detail and that's what the audience likes. ... Writers [in the second season] had to do a lot of glossing over the domestic life, and some of the small moments between characters that characterized the first season."
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