"Smash capitalism" to "release your job," what "Downton Abbey" & Beyoncé can teach us about progress

"Release your job," chants Big Freedia on Beyoncé's new single, "Break My Soul." Fascism was on the rise as people's economic security grew ever more precarious — hm, relatable — and even in the escapist soap opera of "Downton Abbey," the moneyed Crawley family could feel it coming. Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern star as Robert and Cora Grantham, Robert James Collier as Thomas Barrow, Phyllis Logan as Mrs. Hughes and Jim Carter as Mr. Carson in Downton Abbey: A New Era "The state of progress is agonizingly slow." Phyllis Logan stars as Mrs. Hughes and Jim Carter as Mr. Carson in Downton Abbey: A New Era In reality, progress is slow, but it's still progress. It's a move "A New Era" director Simon Curtis likens to a shift the industry is currently feeling: "There's a parallel with the film industry undergoing a great technological change with what's going on now with cinemas versus streaming, so I think you have to embrace the new technology and make it work for you."