r/DowntonAbbey

I'm rewatching the whole series right now and I'm really dragging my feet queuing up season 3 episode 9 because I know what's coming. I know the rest of the series is great but I just don't want Matthew/Mary to be over yet. I know he had his reasons for leaving the show, but my biggest (and really only gripe) about this series is how much time was invested in Matthew and Mary's long, drawn out on again/off again courtship and relationship, only for it to be dramatically curtailed in the end.

Should Mary have said that? Should Edith have done that? Who has it better in the end?

Come fight your corner in our all-spoilers-allowed weekly thread, dedicated to all things Mary vs Edith!

Spoiler alert! Do not read if you have not seen the final episode of season 2 or any of season 3.

I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate how good Laura Carmichael's acting was in the episode where Cora has Spanish flu and then the episode where Sybil gives birth. She does such an amazing job of conveying absolute horror in both situations. Edith is not one of my favorite characters, but I think Laura Carmichael is one of the most talented actresses on the show.

We get brief glances of this, but for the most part work is their entire day, so based on historical records, what would servants and staff have done for entertainment?

it took 6 seasons and 2 movies to showcase doyle's finest. this scene was exceptional.

shakespearean delivery

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Just rewatching the second movie, and I noticed immediately that quite a few of the main characters have a nice, healthy tan.

It wasn't fashionable until Coco Chanel got sunburned on a yacht in 1923.

It's just a little jarring to my eyes!

I was surprised that none of the children of Lord Grantham or anyone else in the family, besides Cora, were sad about Isis, the beautiful white lab dying. Mary was so inconsiderate with her cavalier comment the dog getting fat saying “she might be pregnant!” Poor Isis had cancer. Is this just typical behavior for stuck up English aristocrats?

i just finished episode 8. im so confused. mary and henry have literally no chemistry, he bullied and guilt tripped her into marriage, has a passion for reckless driving which killed her husband, and yet every single character keeps telling us theyre so inlove?? when even mary says his driving is too triggering and potentially traumatizing??? she chooses to marry him so quick without even first coming up with a solution to the whole potential-2nd-car-crash-widow thing. henry isn’t even remotely likeable or attractive! why are they pushing it SO hard when they’ve barley had a single intriguing scene together? their marriage was literally a hard watch for me. charles was the only one who could meet matthew standards. im just so disappointed with the writing. i was open to mary remarrying, but they just fooled around with a couple guys until it got too late in the season to keep playing around so they just threw marriage onto them. it makes noooooo sense. also fuck tom for pressuring mary into it and repeatedly ignoring her boundaries. also him randomly becoming a capitalist? and mary and edith randomly becoming major opps again despite that whole mary vs edith thing being sooo many seasons ago? s6 is a whole mess!

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>!I just realized Cora's brother's actor plays the assistant to the (unethical) in- universe director in the Truman show (I think).!<

I've rewatched this show more times than I can count. It's a comfort when I'm sick and old and familiar when I'm overwhelmed. But I have never noticed this one momemt in the third season opener. It's the dinner to welcome Mrs. Levinson. They're discussing Violet having sent the Bransons the money for them to visit for the wedding.

As they're talking, Carson picks up Tom's napkin from the table and hands it to him to put on his lap, giving him the stink eye. I've never noticed it before and it gave me the giggles this evening.

Anyone else notice anything silly on a millionth rewatch?