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The Grand Finale is a farewell that's intertwined with real, palpable grief. Last year, we lost Downton Abbey's glorious piece de resistance, Dame Maggie Smith, whose snake-bite wit as the Dowager Countess Violet Crawley was always the series's purest pleasure. The Dowager Countess's passing was the climactic event of the previous film here, her portrait hangs reverently in the hall, watching over all with that sparkling gaze of hers.
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