The search for the perfect home leads the couple to 165 Eaton Place, which hasn’t held up well, acquiring about 40 years’ worth of dirt and disrepair in a fraction of the time. Lady Agnes is nevertheless enchanted and sets about bossing workmen around in an extreme makeover. Sir Hallam’s opinionated and eccentric mother, Lady Maud (Dame Eileen Atkins), moves in for a permanent stay, after decades of living abroad. She brings along her aide, Amanjit Singh (Art Malik), and her pet monkey, Solomon. Lady Agnes’s conniving sister, Lady Persephone (Claire Foy), also arrives and immediately causes a ruckus. For her domestic staff, Lady Agnes turns to an employment agency run by Mrs. Buck. That would be the same Mrs. Buck who toiled for the Bellamys as a parlormaid, the same Mrs. Buck played by the same Jean Marsh who co-created and starred in the original series and now acts as a bridge between eras. Mrs. Buck takes the housekeeper job herself and assembles a staff, and thus “Ups...
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