<p>I’ve seen several previews for it; am not sure I won’t to see the movie, but I just might for her (Michelle Dockery).</p>
<p>I was thinking the same - it looks like such a different character for her, would be interesting to see.</p>
<p>I knew Edith would never go through with it; this plot must be milked at least until next season. From the preview it seems that she’s going to try to give the baby to that farmer she got caught kissing.</p>
<p>Anna and Mrs. Hughes couldn’t have been more obvious when Mr. Gillingham turned up. Bates has clearly figured things out but since he’s learned a thing or two from being in prison, I imagine he’ll take his revenge in some way where he won’t be implicated in whatever misfortune will occur to the (soon to be) “late” visiting valet. His boss won’t be upset since he never liked him anyway :)</p>
<p>So, how’s he going to do it?</p>
<p>Mr. Green is a dead man. It’s only a matter of how he dies: tragic train accident, eaten by the pigs, poisoned when Mrs. Hughes has a little word with Mrs. Patmore?</p>
<p>Lady Mary slipping and sliding in pig mud was singularly unrealistic, IMHO. Advanced the plot quite a bit, but – really? That would never have happened. </p>
<p>And what the hell is going to happen with Rose and the lovely, very nice Mr. Ross? That scares me to death. I don’t know much about race relations in England in the 1920s, but I’m sure they were not as “advanced” as they are today. This cannot end well for either of them.</p>
<p>And maybe Tom will see that lovely woman from the political meeting again. It sure seemed like they were setting that up for some relationship to occur. </p>
<p>ETA: Yes, Mr. Bates will do something to the rapist Mr. Green, but won’t Bates want Mr. Green to know that it’s him, Bates, who does whatever “it” turns out to be? Or will it be anonymous??</p>
<p>My guess: Mr. Green will try it again, and that’s how they will nail him. Boy, I missed the previous episode and I was lost part of the time.</p>
<p>And by the way, what’s up with Mr. Gregson? Edith said he checked into his hotel in Munich, left for dinner, and never returned.</p>
<p>Munich was a hotbed of politics and revolution in the early 20s. Perhaps Gregson we mistaken for a spy and was seized by one faction or another. Or perhaps he IS a spy and was seized by one faction or another.</p>
<p>I have been thinking that maybe Bates would, himself, rape Mr. Green. The thought being poetic justice, and Green unlikely to accuse Bates because of the shame and the blowback from anyone learning why Bates had done it.</p>
<p>Gregson has to show up again at some inopportune time. And they still haven’t fired the gun that they hung over the mantel in Act 1 when Edith signed those papers. That’s coming, too.</p>
<p>^^^^^Wow. There’s an idea. (Bates and Green, that is.) Wow.</p>
<p>Lots of great theories… all of them would play out well. I also wondered if Edith will “visit family in America” for the next 9 months. But the farm scene seems to play into the “cover up.”</p>
<p>Mr. Green will be taken care of by Bates no doubt. Love Mrs. Hughes confrontation with him. She is my hero.</p>
<p>Rose and Mr. Ross are adorable together. I was actually surprised that they were boating together… not sure if that public display would have happened in 1920- even in Europe.</p>
<p>This season has really picked up!</p>
<p>That pigpen scene was just ridiculous. Maybe the guy would have climbed in and saved the pigs, but Lady Mary would have run back to the house to get help. And why wasn’t there a farm worker there? You don’t get in a bunch of new livestock and have no one there to care for them. </p>
<p>I also think Mary would have gone straight to her mother about Rose and Mr. Ross the singer. Mary is far too conventional to have seen a young relative kissing a black singer in the kitchen without reporting it! She would have no reason to protect Rose as she did with Sibyl. I think Rose would have been packed off to finishing school in Switzerland or even sent to her parents in India. </p>
<p>The Jack Ross character is based on a real cabaret singer, Leslie Hutchinson: <a href=“Leslie Hutchinson - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Hutchinson</a></p>
<p>He moved in the highest circles, and reportedly had affairs with a number of society women. </p>
<p>Here’s video of Leslie Hutchinson:
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<p>Cardinal Fang, thanks for that information. Very interesting.</p>
<p>The show would be pretty boring if all of the female characters did nothing but sit around and fan themselves, realistic or not.</p>
<p>Mary is probably more understanding of Rose because of her own past with Kemal Pamuk</p>
<p>I’m late to the party. Who was Kemal Pamuk? (Nice name, BTW.)</p>
<p>A Turkish diplomat who died in Mary’s bed - 2nd season I think</p>
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<p>Mine too, and I hope she is not in danger now that she has revealed himself. As for Bates, i think he will cover his tracks, particularly if his wife has explained why she hid the attack from him (did she?).</p>
<p>Good point about Mary and Mr. Pamuk. But maybe she would try to speak to Rose and steer her in a more appropriate direction due to Mary’s own experience? </p>