Weekend Review: Downton Abbey, Dateline on Asthma, Best of Fallon, All-Star Simpsons

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Was it really so hard finding good help in those days? When Robert, aka Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville), is informed that his wife is once again bereft of a lady’s maid, he overdramatically moans, “Are we living under a curse?”

There’s no question a pall thicker than London fog hangs heavy over Downton Abbey in its fourth year as Masterpiece Classic‘s signature series (Sunday, 9/8c, on PBS; check tvguide.com listings). Not only has Lady Cora’s bedchamber not been the same since her scheming servant O’Brien left — she slinks away in the opening scene, and boy, is she missed — but the family and staff are in sustained mourning over the untimely (and contrived) death, six months earlier, of heir Matthew Crawley, Lady Mary’s husband, in last year’s unhappy finale.

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