The ninety-third TV show: #849 Downton Abbey
There is a group of historical dramas that focuses on the early 1900s, including the fall of the British aristocracy. Previously, Brideshead Revisited covered that, through time jumps that showed how times changed and why it would have fallen. Bleak House covered an earlier period, but the focus on the class system is still there.
Downton Abbey starts off examining some of this as well. Starting at the sinking of the Titanic, there is an older generation that clings on to the known ways while others are seeing how it cannot be maintained. It starts to feel, however, that after the first season got succesful, it got to glamorizing this era, as something to look back on as something better. It doesn't connect with me on that level and feels weird sometimes. The tension that was underlying the first season dissipates and the second season feels a bit toothless because of that. It's a shame, because the underlying concept might have been nicer. The show just doesn't actually keep up with that.