So Carson is suddenly well enough to be Butler since Barrow left.
Henry is trashed as a bully and a playboy and having a mistress when he gave up everything for her in the series and set up a company with Branson, was quite happy that Lady Mary ran the show, and Matthew rendered a saint when he was far from it.
And neither is Lady Mary, who seems to be keeping her married name when she could drop it now she's divorced.
And why did she fall for the con artist? It was obvious he was trying to get her drunk enough to sleep with him so he could blackmail her as a backup plan to try to persuade her to agree to his schemes.
Lady Mary is far from the first divorced woman, not the highest or the first. Consuelo Vanderbilt divorced the Duke of Marlborough in 1921.
Wasn't the Della Francesca sold in series 6?
Where is Lucy Branson? Like Henry is she suddenly only heard of and never seen.
The flashback at the end is too sugary.
There was a certain emotional distance as well, there wasn't really anything too invested in, a lot was used before and rendered cliché.