No one can take someone down a peg or six like Downton Abbey's Dowager Countess. Until Shirley MacLaine's Martha Levinson comes along, that is.
Though Maggie Smith delivers a trademark zinger in the first clip from Downton Abbey's third season, it's the head-to-head with Martha (mother of Lady Cora) in the second clip that really whets our appetite for some good old-fashioned Brits-versus-Americans drama.
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