With two episodes left, we have a host of unanswered questions. I won't elaborate, but I hope the next episode has the wherewithal to do justice to them without the deus ex machina business. Mary is still up for grabs and what will Edith do with Marigold? We have Thomas. We have Tom Branson. We have some guy taking notes around a corner. We have Baxter and the guy who caused her to serve a prison sentence. And what is Violet up to?
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Deadly Car Race
jpismyname11 January 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Handsome, dashing Henry Talbot joins a car racing contest, which worries Lady Mary, who was traumatized after Matthew's untimely demise. It is exciting at first, watching old cars (I mean 1920s cars) in a race. The race ends with a tragic accident, making Mary's trauma worsen.
I have to say that the cinematography is wonderful here.
Meanwhile, an unlikely friendship strengthens. Violet confronts Larry Grey's scheming fiancee to protect Isobel from her. It's really nice to see how the Dowager Countess and Mrs. Crawley's friendship blossoms.
Despite the tragedy on the car race, there also see some light scenes and quite really funny, like Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes. I really love this couple, they're quite fun to watch. It's really hilarious to watch Carson criticizing Mrs. Hughes' cleaning and cooking, and then when it's his time to cook for his wife...really funny!
I have to say that the cinematography is wonderful here.
Meanwhile, an unlikely friendship strengthens. Violet confronts Larry Grey's scheming fiancee to protect Isobel from her. It's really nice to see how the Dowager Countess and Mrs. Crawley's friendship blossoms.
Despite the tragedy on the car race, there also see some light scenes and quite really funny, like Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes. I really love this couple, they're quite fun to watch. It's really hilarious to watch Carson criticizing Mrs. Hughes' cleaning and cooking, and then when it's his time to cook for his wife...really funny!
Time for Home
GusherPop14 May 2022
Violet has finally done it; she has run away from home. Still angry over the hospital coup, and already having had one unfortunate public meltdown, at the open house where she came close to wiping out dozens of villagers as she cut a swath through the library, she thought it best that she take leave of the country before she blew another gasket and took leave of her senses altogether. So she set sail on a three hour tour on the S. S. Paris to visit Lord and Lady Howell in Cannes. She skipped the goodbyes, but before she went she left behind some letters, all S. W. A. K., including one gingerly delivered by Isobel and a lovely parting gift of that furry little buddy for Robert. In case anyone needs to reach her, she left instructions with Tom because he's the most sensible. Violet and Isobel know about this greedy scheme, will they let Dickie know what they've discovered so he can finally disinherit his ne'er-do-well mongrels and banish them from his Earldom (without a penny) once and for all? I doubt Isobel will do it as she has repeatedly said she doesn't want to come between Dickie and his two shades of Grey. But Violet is another story. The test results are in and he aced it. According to Headmaster Dawes, there are Oxford and Cambridge grads who know less than our Mr. Molesley. When you think about it, this has been percolating all along. Back as far as Season 1 Molesley wanted to talk books with Anna. At the time we assumed he was just hitting on her but maybe he actually did just want to talk books. Mr. Molesley's story mirrors that of many of that era, bright students who had no choice but to leave school and start earning at a young age to help support the family. A job in service was considered respectable, and likely his family considered school a pie in the sky dream when the practicality of a paying job beckoned. For Snappy, all that's best of dark and bright meet in Mary's aspect and her eyes. He just can't quit her. It is a carpe diem moment for him, but not for Mary. For her it's a Matthew flashback. Snappy picks the wrong moment to call and say, "hello, it's me" and push her, and she picks the wrong moment to tell him it wasn't meant to be, that she doesn't want him to give up anything - except her. Tom tells her she's making a mistake, she needs understand she is letting her fear of being hurt rule her.
Disappointing Character Development (or lack thereof)
figuress30 May 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I feel disappointed with the way the characters develop. Mr. Carson is the most disappointing of all. Although he has always been an ass, he's now turned more ill-mannered, more cruel and even meaner than ever. And this after he's found love and marriage?
Mary also disappoints. She has always been steadfast and calculated in the decisions she makes but now she gets involved with a man that not only she herself would consider "marrying down" to but who is also intent on celebrating and participating in a sport that he is fully aware terrifies Mary. Yet she fawns over him like he is the second coming. And she is the worse mother on modern television. Poor George gets about 15 minutes of her time from the moment he's born until the close of the last season.
Ms. Braxton is about as flaky as a box of Cornflakes. She wobbles back and forth between wanting to forget about her past and embrace the changes she's made (to be a better person) to wanting to revisit the most horrific part of her past even at the dismay of Mr. Moseley who has supported her to the fullest. Like many battered women, she seems incapable of recognizing when a good man is there for them and seems to stay attracted to that bad boy.
Mr. Barrow - the most despicable and detestable character of all - turns out to be the most sympathetic. The one you end up rooting for and hoping all turns out well in his life. He has a big heart and wants to love and be loved but his heart also has a thick coating of rejection and disappointment (that he has dealt with throughout his life) and is difficult to penetrate.
All of the characters seems to have a degree of complexity but how they develop and evolve is consistently murky.
Mary also disappoints. She has always been steadfast and calculated in the decisions she makes but now she gets involved with a man that not only she herself would consider "marrying down" to but who is also intent on celebrating and participating in a sport that he is fully aware terrifies Mary. Yet she fawns over him like he is the second coming. And she is the worse mother on modern television. Poor George gets about 15 minutes of her time from the moment he's born until the close of the last season.
Ms. Braxton is about as flaky as a box of Cornflakes. She wobbles back and forth between wanting to forget about her past and embrace the changes she's made (to be a better person) to wanting to revisit the most horrific part of her past even at the dismay of Mr. Moseley who has supported her to the fullest. Like many battered women, she seems incapable of recognizing when a good man is there for them and seems to stay attracted to that bad boy.
Mr. Barrow - the most despicable and detestable character of all - turns out to be the most sympathetic. The one you end up rooting for and hoping all turns out well in his life. He has a big heart and wants to love and be loved but his heart also has a thick coating of rejection and disappointment (that he has dealt with throughout his life) and is difficult to penetrate.
All of the characters seems to have a degree of complexity but how they develop and evolve is consistently murky.
utter tripe
sandcrab2778 May 2020
This is what writers and creators do isn't it ... create and write garbage because funding is running low and the series needs to be wrapped up soonest ... everything from here on out is already telegraphed for eternity
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