I lived how the Mary’s “french” hairdresser was actually just faking the french accent!
Yes, I forgotten about that scene, but that was delightful! It is also interesting that Isobel noted that’s why she chooses not to have a lady’s maid and a butler, but marrying Lord Merton will certainly change all that.
“All this endless thinking. It’s very overrated. … I blame the war. Before 1914, nobody thought about anything at all….”
^^ “All this endless thinking. It’s very overrated. … I blame the war. Before 1914, nobody thought about anything at all….”
Yes! Best line of the night! Didn’t we used to get much more of this from Violet? You know, stuff they might put on a T-shirt. I feel like she’s been less feisty : (
And what about poor Isis?
I’m afraid poor Isis is on her way out. I’ve seen people speculate about how old that dog must be by now (over 12 years old, I think) and how it was getting unbelievable that she was still around. I suspect Mr. Fellowes has noticed these remarks and is resolving this minor plot point. Of course, there is so much about this season that is unbelievable I’m not sure that killing off the dog is that significant. Still, it’s going to be sad.
I have to say that I’m totally sick of Edith and completely out of sympathy for her. So far she has ripped that child out of two different homes and destroyed two different families without a thought for the trauma or in fact anyone but herself. And what exactly does Edith know about children? In her experience, they are handed off to nannies 95% of the time but she takes her to a hotel and feeds her ice cream while she happily drinks champagne. What a self-centered twit; she can run her newspaper while Marigold is with a babysitter I guess. I am totally team Mary at this point. Downton Abbey is much better off without Edith, although I’m sure she’ll be back. She couldn’t last a week without someone helping her function.
Why is that stupid Mr. Greene murder plot still running? Is there no other crime in London? The police seem to have nothing else to do there but speculate that a servant’s accidental death was a murder. I did enjoy the idea that in getting rid of the train ticket, Mrs. Hughes and Mary harmed Bates rather than helping him.
The clothes this year are fabulous, though and I love Mary’s haircut. She looks amazing.
I remember Mary having that ticket out of the coat pocket, saying something about it being interesting, will produce it just in the nick of timel, I predict!
I like Mabel Lane Fox. She deserves better than that goop Gillingham.
I thought she threw it right into the fireplace?
Yes, Mary threw the ticket into the fireplace.
Can Lady Edith dress herself? Did she have a maid? We always saw Anna dressing Mary, and even giving her “easy” clothes for her tryst with Gillingham. I truly think Edith will have no idea how to dress herself and Marigold!
And what will Edith do for money? She doesn’t even know she inherited a publishing house (I think that was what it was). I can see her now coming home on the train with Marigold and the look on her parents’ faces.
She knows she inherited the business, no? - the solicitor was there to tell her that Gregson was dead and that the business was left to her (we already knew she signed some papers Gregson asked her to sign before he left). I didn’t think Anna took care of anyone but Mary so as far as dressing, does Edith still have someone? Some nameless maid? I think no first time mother knows anything about being a mother until the job is thrust on them so Edith is no different, except Edith has money, a business to run and connections to half of London. Well, not so bad if you ask me. I think the whole thing about Rosemund/Violet telling her there was no other way was “no other way unless you don’t care about your reputation” - which she apparently doesn’t give a flip, thank god. She is not some stupid wallflower although she has acted like it since Gregson left - she had a column in the paper, took care of soldiers when they turned Downton into a rehab convalescent home. I don’t see her coming home but more likely living with Rosemund on Violet’s insistance while Edith learns how to run a newspaper. Maybe Mary’s ex-what’s-his-name “I’m a newspaper man!” will reenter the scene? Who cares, as long as she stops whining. Thank you Fellowes for putting us out of that misery.
^ she stopped whining ,and the final scene she laughed whole heartedly.
Perhaps, I missed part of beginning,
Who had Edith called at the end of last week’s episode?
^^^Good question.
I think Mary likes Mabel Lane Fox and I’d love to see them become bffs. I think they’d make a great team and Mary could use some female friends (since her only remaining sister is such a wet blanket).
I don’t know that Edith knows as much as regular first time moms. She and her sisters do not even know how to boil water! (An old episode showed that). She has likely never even seen a diaper changed. Never seen a toddler eat as they were always kept in the nursery. I think she is in for a rude awakening.
Edith never had a lady’s maid, being unmarried, so presumably she was always dressing herself.
No, the unmarried young women in the household share a lady’s maid. Mary, Edith and Sybill shared one the first season. Edith and Rose presumably share one now. Might be a house- or parlor- maid who also has other responsibilities.
I want this job:
http://www.exclusivehouseholdstaff.com/vacancies/view/ladies-maid