Downton Abbey

[Vintagejazz]

I believe it's back on Sunday. Hurray!

I really hope though that they focus more on Edith and less on Mary and her boring, all look the samey, suitors.

If little Marigold continues to be as catatonic as she was on Sunday Edith is in for a quiet life

What on earth has reality got to do with it, anyway?

@Abra1d,
I think it was the D'Inzeo brothers, Italian cavalry officers, in the 1940's (or maybe even earlier). I think their influence was riding across country rather than dressage.

Oops, no! It was Caprilli and much earlier
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Caprilli

Is this the last series does anyone know?

Ok a bit late to this but was rather puzzled at Gillingham completely ignoring Mary.
One minute he tells her they will be married no matter what and the next he's not even acknowledging her at the picnic and flirting with his old fiancée.

And Baxter and Barrow were so sweet together.

Perhaps he's trying to make Mary jealous?

and re Atticus being Jewish-isn't/wasn't Cora??!!

Doesn't Violet owe her current standard of living to the Jewish Levinson money??!!

To the extent of blanking her? That's just too rude surely? They had manners in those days.

I was expecting lots of smouldering passive aggressive glances. I'm disappointed.

Yes, Cora's father is Jewish.

Cora mentioned that she was Jewish, or part-Jewish, to Richard E Grant in one of those exposition scenes where you can hear the plot cranking into motion.

As soon as she did that I guessed Julian had been reading the Ladybird Book of Anti-Semitism and lo and behold we had the Russian exiles being horrid to Rose's boyfriend and Cora frowning about Mr Hitler.

I think Julian was worried that even after we met Cora's mum we might have missed the fact that Mrs Levinson was a Jewish name.

Don't forget the plot crank where everyone is worried about the society effects of Shrimpy's (Lady Rose's father) divorce.

Would a 1920's Jewish family had issue with that?

The same plot crank when Rose extracted a promise from shrimpy that she could choose who she marry and then, low, a week later, meets Atticus...

I do not want Carson and Mrs Hughes to end up together! She is kind, sensible, compassionate and has a nice dry sense of humour. He is pompous and reactionary and humourless.

For the love of God don't make her moulder away her retirement in some gloomy cottage with the old bag!

The point-to-point was such a non-event. I thought Mary was going to have a Dramatic Fall over a fence, or she and Thingy Lane Fox would come to blows, or Gillingham and the identical other Lord would have fisticuffs, or something would happen.

Mary is so ridiculous.

Doesn't want to marry Tony but doesn't want him to "get off too easily"

Gets a new haircut & must "make an entrance"

You're in your 30s woman, grow up!!

Hope Edith becomes a successful career woman(some hope!)

Is Mary becoming a caricature for the American market?

Could this explain Branson's extraordinary trousers; and the pointless point-to-point?

Maybe, although the whole thing is ridiculous really, isn't it?

she's always got men panting around her for some reason that I can't fathom at all.

Well she has got some money & a share of Downton atm I suppose!

Mary is a moobag, that's for sure.
She has never failed to snipe at Edith, despite it clearly not being a level playing field.
The 'dramatic new haircut entrance' when Edith had just had confirmation her husband to be was in fact actually dead was really evil.

I think her attraction is just that she is so confident.
Not nice, or even very pretty, but confident (oh, and rich helps!)

And because she has been married she gets a tray in bed for breakfast, whereas Poor Edith has to go down and take breakfast with Branson and his extraordinary trousers.

And fat Isis.

Isis's bum isn't as fat as Branson's.

I haven't given Tom a second glance before, but I might be developing a tiny crush now.

I think it's because he's been so lovely to everyone in recent episodes. no it's just about the extraordinary trousers

Who's got the fattest bum on Downton?

Lord 6, surely? He is meaty and portly all over. Looked like an overstuffed toy soldier the other week in his ridiculous red uniform.

Edith will make the publishing house into a literary firecracker. She and her daughter will have great fun and won't give a damn that they aren't considered respectable because there is no husband and father.

Mary will sulk.

Edith is to become the Nancy Mitford one, then?

(I get all my Mitfords mixed up btw)

Yes, great idea--Edith as Nancy.

She will go to really entertaining parties and meet people like Stravinsky, Gertrude Stein and the finest literary figures, and Mary will go to stodgy county dinner parties all the rest of her life.