Over the past 15 years, Downton Abbey has gotten very good at saying goodbye. The sweeping British period series wrapped up its six-season run with a sweet Christmas special farewell. The 2019 big screen continuation tied up the few remaining loose ends. And the 2022 sequel put an even more emotional button on things with the onscreen death of Maggie Smith’s iconic Dowager Countess.

Now Downton is promising to truly say farewell for good this time with its third and final film, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, in theaters Sept. 12. Whether or not it sticks remains to be seen. There’s nothing in the movie that precludes them from making another one someday. (Spoiler alert: They don’t end it by blowing up the house or anything.) But if this really is goodbye, it’s a fittingly character-cent

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