This week, we delve into a hilarious spoof of “Downton Abbey” and film version of a stage musical that is way better than that “Wicked” sequel.

“Fackham Hall”: Off-color spoofs of specific genres and films — think the “Airplane” and “Naked Gun” series, the entirety of Mel Brooks’ hysterical canon and so on — are somewhat of a rare occurrence these days. What’s even more rare is when they’re actually funny. Here’s some good news. Director Jim O’Hanlon’s ribbing of “Downton Abbey” and countless buttoned-up BBC period pieces lands its jokes more often than not. Oh, yes, there are groaners, but you expect that. A team of screenwriters gleefully skewer the Dickens out of this genre and do so through wordplay, aristocratic buffoonery, innuendo (the pastor’s sermons are to die for) and more. The

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