Hoped to learn a bit more in depth about social, political and economic changes. And - for heavens sake, leave the Bates alone and grant them at least some happiness. This has been going on for too long now. It would have been much more interesting to develop thesis two characters further. But the development of characters is a weakness of the series all along. Nevertheless, beautiful English is spoken and the dialogues - though not as witty as before - are silent kind of amusing.