This movie was made for people who watched the entire six seasons of Downton Abbey and were left wanting more. Those people are largely going to be happy with this sequel, and I am not sure that if you hadn't watched at least some of the series that you would even be able to assertain what exactly is going on or why it might matter. The target audience is people who enjoy a film in which well-dressed, reasonably thoughtful adults do and say grownup things. The manor house of an earl in the early 20th century is set in something resembling reality, with banquets, dances, familial intrigue, gown fittings, chaste flirtations, declarations of love, and expertly timed reaction shots of characters silently disapproving of other characters. They are firmly established royalists who host a vist from the king and queen and it is lavishly costumed and smartly scripted and altogether enjoyable in an over the top sort of way of these period films.
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