YMMV / Downton Abbey: A New Era

• Angst? What Angst?: Robert is the only character who shows anything resembling genuine angst about him possibly being born from a different father. Everyone else is remarkably blasé about the idea that Violet could have lied to them for their whole lives.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Madame de Montmirail is a grumpy, obstructive old woman that treats the Crawleys with contempt throughout their stay in France, but it's hard not to feel bad for her situation: her recently deceased husband has left property to the Dowager Countess, whom he had an old fling with, because he never got over her and made sure to remind his wife of that by leaving a picture of Violet on display, forever reminding his own wife and mother of their son that she was inferior to The One That Got Away. And her own son can't seem to understand her situation, too involved with the possiblility that Robert is his brother, even if that turns out not to be the case.
  • Myrna Dalgleish is a vain, spoiled actress who quickly gains people's antipathy with her rudeness, but she's a White-Dwarf Star, haunted by the arrival of talking films destroying her career, as she happens to have a Cockney background and her hoarse voice and thick accent will have no place on the next era of film. Worse, it's a reminder that her aristocratic glamour is shallow, as her background is as humble as that of the servants, which Daisy seeks to invoke in a positive manner by reminding her that she's had to climb to her place, unlike the upper-class and can do better.
• Like You Would Really Do It: It was heavily hinted that a major character would be killed off in the promotional materials. The movie tries to mislead the audience to thinking it might be Cora, who reveals she may have cancer. But, given that the previous film ended with Violet getting some kind of diagnosis, it's no surprise that she's the one to die in the climax.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions: Cora's entire subplot of revealing she may have cancer, only for it to turn out it's anaemia receives very little screen time and ultimately has no effect on the plot as a whole.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Madame de Montmirail is treated as a grumpy obstructive villain, only given the most minor of sympathy by the narrative. Not only has she just lost her husband, but he's left property to a woman he had a minor affair with decades ago, and he even kept her picture on display in the house, forever letting his wife know that she would always come second to Violet.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Cora thinks it's a good idea to casually drop the Conflict Ball that she's possibly got a terminal illness on her husband right after he's found out he might actually have had a different father and been lied to his whole life, in addition to preparing for his mother's imminent death. And she does this not in their room, where he could process this, but in the middle of a wild party.