It looks like Isobel will accept Lord Merton’s proposal. That’ll show those twit sons of his!! They don’t deserve a woman of such fine quality as their step-mother. I imagine Isobel will be perfectly polite to them in person but will put them down in some wonderful way.
Violet with the Count – living in sin?? No way, no how. Ain’t never gonna happen. It goes against everything Violet has stood for so far – propriety above all else. And why doesn’t Kuragin (sp?) get a haircut? He’s in England now, for Pete’s sake.
I was confused in the bar/gambling scene with Thomas and the new, temporary footman. I got the jist – that Thomas somehow won back the money New Footman had lost – but Thomas told NF when they walked in to pretend they didn’t know each other. Then, NF asks Thomas some question, showing that they definitely do in fact know each other! How did Thomas know he would win?? I sure hope Mrs. Danker gets the boot. She’s really bad news. Just imagine if Violet and Kuragin “hook up” – Mrs. Danker would be broadcasting the news in about five minutes.
There were two suggestions that Mrs. Hughes was responsible for Mr. Green’s death – one when Scotland Yard mentioned that the witness saw someone shorter than Mr. Bates talking to Green right before his death (“Isn’t that right, Mrs. Hughes?” said the detective) and then later, when Mrs. Hughes is crying and tells Mr. Carson that Anna didn’t do it. She must be so certain because she knows who did. No way can I see Mrs. Hughes going to jail!!
So what is Daisy going to do?? She’s becoming a little spitfire!
I love Shrimpie. He is sooooooo supportive of Rose. Mrs. Shrimpie is a piece of work. Someone should push her in front of a bus.
ETA: Where was Rosamund at the wedding?? Rose is her niece too.
I disliked Kuragin (and his greasy hair) from the start, and last night’s episode only confirmed my sentiments. Violet needs her head examined if she even considers resuming any romance with him!
Alas poor Isis has (evidently) passed since LG was looking to have a headstone or plaque made for her…then he decided to do one for Mrs. Patmore’s nephew instead.
I’m still processing that episode…Yeah - where the heck is Isis? Soooooo choppy like one minute Anna’s being hauled away and next we have the unveiling of the memorial. And Archie gets a super special plaque all by himself? I get the whole Mary/Carson special bond but has she spoken like that to her (on camera) since Matthew died? I like the detective telling her “I don’t care if you are the Queen of the Nile” - SNAP! The whole Kuragin thing is funny to me - talk about golddigging - he’s liking her comfy couch compared to his squalor but heck lets talk about “love” right?
Yeah where is Rosamund? That was odd. I will have to watch again but what was the explanation for having to bring all the wedding food like they were catering a picnic? Love the idea Rose and Edith get to share a room the night before the wedding because her mother won’t share a room with Shrimpy. I remember that they were losing their fortune, the estate in Scotland, etal - last Shrimpy spoke of it, when they returned from India he would live at the “club” or something? And she’d…something…ah, who really cares.
The one thing that I don’t get is this Green thing - so the detective finds out Green attacked women (plural) and wasn’t such a nice chap BUT the full force of the law is behind finding his murderer??? Like let it go already, who would care less if a rapist valet was pushed into traffic and one witness thought they saw a short woman? Lord, I would kill Green just to be done with this stupid storyline.
Regarding Isis, LG was talking with the headstone man whose firm " made stones for all of our dogs". While looking at the brochure, and LG saw they also did plaques…thus the idea for Archie.
Isn’t anyone else bothered that Maggie Smith is 12 years older than the actor who plays her prince? Are we to believe that back when they had their dalliance she was 30 and he was 18? 25 and 13? They just don’t look like contemporaries to me.
Actually, it will turn out that Mr. Green “attacked” so many women that his killer won’t be punished but will instead be feted by the entire country. JK.
I thought they brought the food from Downton because Grantham House doesn’t have a kitchen staff.
I never thought Lord Sinderbee set up Atticus. I kinda like him. I can understand that he’s disappointed that his son isn’t going to marry a nice Jewish girl.
Why would keeping kosher have anything to do with it when the food was prepared at Downton and brought to London? Wasn’t like it was made kosher in the process of travelling by train. I was so confused last night about the whole “registry office” and “blessing” - was it me being slow or did it seem to rush through all those details of the why and whatnot. And where the heck is Rosamund? They were staying at Rosemund’s no or do the Granthams have another large house in London?
And yes I know, it’s because they couldn’t be married in either a church or synagogue but I just think we spent about 2 episodes on Rose’s coming out and then poof we have Rose meeting/getting engaged/getting married in a blink.
No. The age of the actors has little to do with the age of the characters. Angela Lansbury was only 3 years older than Laurence Harvey when she played is mother in “The Manchurian Candidate” and she was nominated for an Oscar for the role.
Well the age of the actors needn’t match the characters when they can pull it off, but I for one think Kuragin and Violet look like they come from two different generations and couldn’t have had a romance back in Russia. I think we’re supposed to believe that Violet is a bit younger than Maggie Smith, but the actress looks every day of her eighty years, while Kuragin, despite his disheveled, greasy appearance, looks a good fifteen years younger. Agree that it’s poor casting.
This episode left me even more frustrated than usual with its ridiculous plotting. If it weren’t for all the delicious eye candy–clothing, landscapes, architecture, decor–I wouldn’t spend five minutes on this show. Our dunderheaded Lord Grantham suddenly figures out the whole Edith/Marigold situation, a situation that has had the senior women of the family beside themselves in their efforts to maintain secrecy and protect Edith’s reputation ever since the pregnancy was revealed, and his reaction is, well, okay, that’s nice, my daughter was a hussy, but hey, one more grandkid, whatevs, let’s go dress for dinner? Edith has inherited a publication–a female publisher back then, imagine!–but she never even discusses it and spends all her time playing with her daughter. I swear Fellowes must make up each script the night before they film, and there’s no one whose job it is to make sure any of it makes sense. Meanwhile, Thomas has managed to become a talented card shark in his off-hours, and Rose has rushed into a marriage while Isobel, who hardly has time on her side, is still debating things. (I’ll add that I hope she ditches Merton, whose failure to properly stand up for her and put his sons in their places at that dinner bodes ill for any marriage.) And don’t get me started on the Green murder, the most boring, absurd plot on television–and that’s saying a lot!
I suspect the gentleman we saw Mary chatting with in the previews will be THE ONE, yet another forgettable brunette, because Matthew must remain the fairest of them all, and a ginger at Downton would be shocking!
I thought they were bringing some food from “home” because Mrs. P didn’t trust the products she would find in London. Mrs. Hughes commented that it was London, after all, so there would be no trouble in that regard, but Mrs. P wasn’t buying it.