Worst Downton Abbey storylines

[DressingGownofDoom]

I love Downton but there have been some really awful storylines. Like at least one per episode Think my least favourite is when the soldier guy turned up at Downton pretending to be cousin Patrick, who had survived the Titanic, got amnesia, and his memory returned to him suddenly in a blast in the war, and Edith actually believed him

I recently started rewatching & got to the Mary & Pamuk debacle & thought WTF did she see in him?

I did love how the friendship between Isobel & Violet developed though & when Isobel "rescues" Lord Merton "how perfectly marvellous!"

The film was ridiculous, yes! I binge watched it though over the past few weeks, if I’d had to wait four years for it I would have just been glad for the familiar characters and a bit of fun. I’m really looking forward to next film!

I don’t think she saw something in him, Pamuk coerced her by saying she was damned either way now he was in her room.

@Pyewhacket

Lady Sybil Crawley going off with the chauffeur to live in a Dublin slum. Absolute bollocks. Chauffeurs were exclusively chosen from senior members of the stable and groom staff. These would have been men in this 40’s plus , and she would have only known them ( there would have been more than one ) by their surnames and by the back of their heads. She wouldn’t talk to them other than to give them instructions. In the same way as she would have known the scullery or laundry staff. They were servants and there is quite a lot of documented evidence that their personal hygiene wasn’t the best.

I have to tell you that my great grandmother did exactly that- ran away with her husband’s chauffeur. I don’t think he lived in a slum but it was a pretty significant downward move and apparently robbed my Grannie and her sisters of the “good marriages” and extremely comfortable lives they’d been brought up to expect- I think they were teenagers at the time, so around 1930. I don’t know any details, because it was something of a taboo subject, but it definitely happened.

The is here. Tom gets married!

The way it was such a big thing keeping Mary's scandal out of the papers. To the extent she was prepared to marry someone she hated. And then she decided to take the risk, ride out the scandal, head to America. Then Matthew proposes and we never hear anything about it again.

The film.

I find Mary such an unsmiling, unlikeable character. Maggie Smith and Penelope Wilton are the only ones I can stand.