Who is your favourite Downton sister?

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Having a Netflix binge. I bloody love Edith I'm rooting for her! She's constantly getting hurt and being overlooked by everyone. I know she comes across as bitter and downtrodden but yet she's kind and helpful and supportive. She's the one I'd want as a friend :-)

Also agree re Mr Bates. He is punching above his weight with Anna!

I like Mrs Patmore and Mrs Hughes best from the staff I think.

Sybil 100%

Mary is the best looking but can get nasty and is jealous of anyone else getting attention.

Edith doesn’t get a look in.

A bit of a ‘misfortune’ we would call her here.

Mary

Edith, then Sybil, then Mary.

Sybil and mary.

Edith is a sap, but her baby is very cute and it's sweet she gets her happy ending

Wonderful clothes. It all looks very nice. I think the characterisation is poor but if you want to sink into a toffish fantasy - and why not, when all else is so grim? - it's ideal.

Ohh yes I also like Rose- I’d like to be her friend. Atticus is good looking too.

Mrs Hughs and Anna are my favourites from downstairs although what Anna sees in bates (other than the obvious craving for daddy/security) is baffling.

Edith.

Am I the only one who likes the chauffeur?

I liked him too!!

I agree I found Anna/Mr Bates repetitive. And didn’t she always say “I love you Mr Bates” and never used his first name! He was never like my name’s Michael ffs. What was his name?!

Tom? I rather liked him. Sybil was my favourite sister, so I liked the two of them together. It was a shame the actress wanted to leave, so they killed her off.

Am I the only one who sniggers every time someone says Mister Bates ?

Got bored after the first couple of seasons first time round but am rewatching for the lovely clothes and interiors.
Thomas is my favourite. So hot. So out of his time I want to transport him to a gay bar in Brighton and give him his rightful spotlight

I do too!

I think Mary in real life had a tough time so that sadness might not have been all acting. I loved that show.

My favourite person in the whole thing is Mattews mother, I love her character and in my opinion she is the best looking in the whole show. Absolutely gorgeous looking woman, beautiful skin and lovely eyes. I thought Maggie Smith was the star but I saw them interviewed together and realised that it was Mrs. Crawley that sets the whole thing up. I hope I look that good when I’m older.

I am definitely going to start watching it again now after this thread, thank you!

Sybil! Edith is whiny and 'oh poor me!' And Mary is a stuck up bitch 98% of the time, she does have some good one liners though so she's probably my second favourite

Sybil is my favourite sister.
I love the Violet/ Isabel dynamic

Meant to.add that I would also be interested to see whether Baxter and Molesley, in "Downton The Future" settle down and live happily ever after

It's Edith for me, by a country mile!

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Got bored after the first couple of seasons first time round but am rewatching for the lovely clothes and interiors. Thomas is my favourite. So hot. So out of his time I want to transport him to a gay bar in Brighton and give him his rightful spotlight

He’s a brilliant character. I am only on s3 so I am hoping he’s going to get some kind of romantic storyline at some point instead of just rejected advances from both sides of the class divide. (Please nobody tell me if he doesn’t).

Mr Bates name was John. (And yes I snigger too).

She does eventually say ‘we have a son John’ but it’s ambiguous about whether or not that’s the baby’s name!

(Probably both)

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I do too!

I think Mary in real life had a tough time so that sadness might not have been all acting. I loved that show.

My favourite person in the whole thing is Mattews mother, I love her character and in my opinion she is the best looking in the whole show. Absolutely gorgeous looking woman, beautiful skin and lovely eyes. I thought Maggie Smith was the star but I saw them interviewed together and realised that it was Mrs. Crawley that sets the whole thing up. I hope I look that good when I’m older.

I am definitely going to start watching it again now after this thread, thank you!

Yes she was a great straight "man" to Maggie Smith's character throughout and played her part absolutely brilliantly, representing the "public spirited" middle class. Loved her improvement in status at the end, although Lord Merton's miraculous recovery was a bit dodgy plot-wise!

I'm doing a rewatch. Just finished season 1. I'm still baffled by the Pamuk sex scene. How come neither Mary or Cora were worried that she could be pregnant?