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Amy Nuthall and Jane Frogatt are both so lovely looking in real life! Hair and make up can make you or break you!

ooh you must have a beautiful accent squoosh

I have ceased to notice Bates at this point. What he looks like what he sounds like! I'm just willing the next scene to arrive..

Oh you too Jenna

Just googled Branson, he went to St Michael's, but he's a little younger than me. Otherwise I'd have said there's a good chance I snogged him.

he's a little younger than I am too! ok, ten years? ish.

funnily enough the first boy i ever snogged went to st michael's. i met him athe top hat roller disco in dun laoghaire. good times :-|

Oh you glamorous minx!

Oh, yes squoosh, he is a tad SoCoDu isn't he - I suspect he might have spent a few teenage Friday nights at Wez. And I suspect wouldn't vote for SinnFein irl. He's a teeny tiny little bit younger than me too (not much older than the kids tbh).

MaryZed there's absolutely no way SoCoDu Branson would be voting SinnFéin! Think that's safe to say

Ah good old Wez, many's a happy Friday evening spent dry riding out the back in the stands.

Dry riding...?

Dry riding is bumpy grindiness with your trousers kept on. Just looked it up in urban dictionary and it's definitely not their defintion!

If he had put it in the flour, then they would have found it in the remaining flour when they searched.

I think he put it in the meat, to be sure she would have it that day. In those days you couldn't keep meat so you used it ASAP.

Jammic, don't ask

I don't understand how we could root for Bates when last season we've seen him slap his wife and viciously call her a bitch. I guess she deserved it because she wasn't as meek and loving as Anna...

Speaking of Anna last week she seemed rattled after speaking to 1st wife's friend and hearing how scared she had been of Bates. Now she's all indignant and 'rot in hell bitch'. Rather odd.
I am fed up with those two- in the first season they had quite a touching relationship but now I find Bates creepy and threatening. I'm gaining hope he might be a villain after all though- he's showing flashes of aggression in jail.

I went right off Bates after seeing his doughy torso in Mary's bed on his honeymoon night.

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Let me get this straight.
Bates put poison in a pie ingredient intending to kill his wife. She somehow knew but went along with a nasty death, scrubbing all traces off herself in order to implicate him and get revenge from beyond the grave.
Right.
Or Vera committed suicide by making herself a poisoned pie, as one does, scrubbed all traces off herself.....yadda yadda yadda.
Right.

It would be much more straightforward if it turned out that, hearing of Mr Bates cruel wife and feeling sorry for Anna, Minnie or Jessie or Moppet or whatever the kitchen maid is called made a poisoned pie and cycled down to London with it.
Much more straightforward.

The great British Bake Off

I think it was the newspaper man who was going to marry mary.

Hehe, dry riding. I wasn't going to ask but couldn't resist.

It is much more interesting if Bates dunnit. The logistics are painful but I definitely think it's possible.

Srsly though, CSI Downton is clumsy, and the unending prison visit scenes are getting tedious. I'm surprised Anna has that much time off, tbh, even now she is a lady's maid rather than a housemaid. And while we are at it, who is dressing Edith?

It's like JF had a really good idea for the Bates storyline, then during scripting meetings for Series Three someone said "erm, but that's impossible because..." and now they're patching a story together which might not even get resolved this series. The stuff with the bent screw is boring.

@ squoosh and maryzed, When english kids were having real sex, in ireland we were dry riding. can't believe somebody asked what it was! obviously a goer loike.

renewed for series four and five though!!

Can someone please explain to me why Edith has to have her breakkie downstairs but all of the rest of the ladies have their's in bed?

Secondly, I agree, newspaper man is somehow involved in this poison busiiness.