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She looks like “ ohh don’t do this”.

@@tamaraprentice5940exactly

It's priceless😅❤!!! Lol.

😂😂😂

Fine!! I will too

Me too! Fabulous show!

Me too

Yes I have started watching too😊

I’m probably on round 20 of rewatching it! 😫😂

Lolol me too ❤️

One of my many FAVORITES!! 😂😂😂

Every. Single. Time. 😂😂😂

Ik i die i love it so much

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Just gotta love Maggie. As she really got the best one liners and did it perfectly. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤will miss her greatly❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

“Thank you. Mother!”

The men showing up in black tie…what is this a workers pub next to a train station? 🤵‍♂️

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@@1kewlglamma407… and again … and again .. and again. Etc!❤️❤️❤️

I agree losing Matthew, Sybil (which character I think could have gone a lot further) & Cora's miscarriage all left a big hole in the storyline. Sadly Peace ☮️ out SW England 🇬🇧

You think quick thinking is only exclusive to America . Ahahahaa

@@SmcdMcd-d2k In this episode of this TV series. Yes.

That's how the English used to be before our shores were inundated & our character down graded our stiff upper lip and never complaining.... to something akin to a damp squib, being unpunctual, losing our stoic nature, sloppiness and working from home with dogs barking kids screaming and doors slamming - totally unprofessional esp when you are talking of banking, insurance and private things. It's leaving people wide open to fraud. The gov in the seventies knew leisure time was coming and no-one had the bottle to discuss what they were going to do with manufacturing diminished and masses of young doing any old thing like service jobs and bar jobs. You can't have AI and not expect a massive unemployment problem. Like it's not hit the youngsters yet - the full import of their going for the easy swipe system on buses etc not realising they are to lose their real freedom and have no actual money monitored 24/7. The gov entices them with get rich quick schemes by being a pc nomadic worker flitting from Lisbon to the Cayman Islands, to Vladivostok. Sorry world when the gov doesn't like what you do it's switch off time with the web. Control comes in many different ways. Peace ☮️ out SW England 🇬🇧

@@deborahklinlger8565 that’s a ridiculous statement . Like beyond ridiculous

How nice to share with your mom. Lucky you!

@@patriciaroberts7557 My mother and I loved Downton Abbey. I know their script.

Am I wrong or can you see the "OMG what is going to happen" in her expression?

@@Robert08010 Not so much an OMG in a bad way, just truly surprised. When Robert takes her hand to dance is Too Sweet!! 💗

I thought I saw some stress in her eyes as if she thought "WTF is going to happen next?" @@m.layfette6249

Love how the Dowager pretty much tells Edith not to be a prig!!

​@@creativewriter3887me too 🤭 To be honest, I didn't really think it made sense that Edith of all people would be be scandalised by a jazz band, or an African American singer at Downton. It didn't fit with her character at all 🤷🏾

Hated O’Brien. Wish she would have been found out by the family.

Why would we feel more harshly? The problem with period drama fans is that they view these dramas through 21st century eyes. It was a different age. And Rose had no right to invite him. She was impertinent for doing so. It wasn’t her home and she knew there could be trouble.

@@Irunwithscissors63 I don't get your point at all. All I'm saying is Robert or Mary would seem far more likely to react badly to the awkward or unexpected. And if they reacted badly, people might overreacted to the scene. It seemed absurd to have Edith be the first to pipe up because we don't generally see snobbery in her. But still it's funny.

A different viewpoint: Maybe the fact that Maggie Smith did not enjoy this role made her Violet a bit more believable. Her sort of distance from the role loving it made Violet more "acid" in a way, her "i am so tired of your sh*t" looks were more true - in a very positive way, i think her distance of the role made Violet more distanced as a character, just like you would expect from a grand lady. Maybe i am imagining things, but i think the character Violet benefited from the lack of love from Maggie Smith and made her a more grandiose character. (no doubt she could have played it perfect even if she loved being Violet, but i feel that in this instance it wasn't only her professionalism that made the role work as well as it did but also this emotional distance between the two)

I don't think they hated her. They just didn't understand her American ways and weren't comfortable with them.

For an older lady Martha was quite modern - a non-traditionalist thinker. I liked it when she set them straight on the fact that there was no more American capitalist money to be had - the dowry was paid and perhaps Cora received some money when her father died. Bank of Grandmother was closed for business.

Because she was Nuvo mola!... Modern threat, to Tradition!

Perhaps being a wealthy American woman had something to do with her being a modern woman. Also, all the girls are half American on their mother’s side. I remember Mary once telling her mother, in a withering and condescending manner, “You’re not English, you wouldn’t understand.”

I understand perfectly. She's crass, loud, vulgar and annoying.

Oh, for sure. But never mind how Mary ran Berti off by divulging who Marygold really is. That took the crown. It wasn't her secret to tell but at the same time Edith had a few chances to disclose it, yet who could really blame her for being too scared to say something to him? At any rate, Mary is a vindictive vicious vixen. But Edith had her vindictive moments too.

@@junewilson1629 The question with Edith is, is being vindictive her nature or is that something she became in a response to Mary? I say this as somebody who has Mary as one of her favorite characters in the show. But Mary could be vendictive in a very natural way. Like it required no efford, no pre scheming, just an opportunity she cant resist. mary has had her great moments as well of course, but those that loved her, like Mathew and Tom (in this case platonicly) knew Mary could be vicous and where not afraid to call her out on it, which was why they where able to be so close with her. Edith, more often then not, seems to behave that way sometimes out of self defence, or lashing out from pain done in the past. Edith is like that abuse victem that sometimes abuses others to deal with her past. Mary had no prior abuse, she just has that nature to her when left unchecked the worst can and will come out. Mary and Edith at their worst are equaly horrible really. And at their best they are both amazing. But on everage I do think Edith is kinder at heart and not truly vendictive and her worst behaviors stem from mistreatment from Mary, as well as the neglect of her parents (who for the most part seemed much more focused on her sisters.

@@amberanimeOh I wholeheartedly agree. You nailed it. Edith only lashed out as a direct response to Mary's viciousness. And Tom did put Mary in her spot. He would not let her bully him. And strangely enough she respected him for it as much as it irked her surely. And Tom and Edith always did have a common denominator. They were both the lesser order in the family. So Edith did not feel vulnerable with Tom and vice versa. However, when Mary later has come to realize (with Bertie) what she had done she finally let her nicer colors shine through. I venture to say she was afraid of being vulnerable which is why she was such a vicious vixen. It's easier to keep everyone at bay and distance by being mean. And Edith was essentially always the ugly duckling in the family. And they surely let her feel it for the most part didn't they? That's why I felt so vindicated for her when she finally married Bertie and was by social standards much higher than any of them would ever be.

Well, what do you expect from Mary

​@amberanime she is that way, in response of Mary being so nasty to her, and if you notice, Edith is only like that with Mary

I love how they all love it because it’s a change “ I feel like one of the bright young things they writ about “

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@@kellicoffman8440 I imagine even the most stern of the aristocrats dreamed of being young again. Deep down, there was a tiny bit of jealousy and yearning to taste the lifestyle of those "Bright Young Things/People".

The surprise band and band leader in to hall. The shock on Roberts face, showed the viewer his quick assessment and acceptance of the situation

I LOVE that scene and him! I wish we saw more of him! ❤️ And Lady Rose was so kind to him during his visit to check on her! Beautiful

Yes it was terrible when Matthew crashed the car. But Mary was so Wicked to her sister. She could be As nasty as O'Brien.

Mary was mean spirited and nasty.

​@@michellebermingham2350Yes, she was many times. It upset me that Cora and Robert always defended Mary.

@@patriciajrs46 yes me too. Very upsetting to see Mary being downright nasty to Edith. And did you notice how Mary was as nice as anything around her maid and Carson but was spewing venom to Edith always . The terrible thing is that this happens in real life in families. I know!

@@michellebermingham2350To be fair, Edith had her own nastiness and she seemed to start most of the tension between her and Mary.

London accents more like...

Mary is such a cnt and I loathe how many people refuse to see it.

@@katie7748YESSSSSS! And ppl bring up the pamuk thing but that would have never happened if Mary wasn’t cruel to Edith in the first place

@@JasmineBoothe1Don’t you think that Pamuk sexually assaulted her? She kept saying no and Pamuk took advantage of her naïveté.

@@SummerRain368 I do but I’m talking about the fact that Edith wrote to the ambassador to expose Mary.. not what actually happened to her

Give it another chance! It’s worth it!!

Never liked Rose.

The way she ate at diner was a exaggeratedly primitive show-off of her crude "American" manners - that was clumsy acting by a great actress.

Thank GOD for streaming! Ugh I don’t know how I could have been so patient to wait for the next episode. I only started watching it in Dec 2021 as streaming. Haven’t stopped watching yet. Not kidding. SUPER BINGE!! 🥳

Gotta have a cliffhanger somehow!!

That’s too bad you’ve never watched the best series in TV history!

Mary is NOT nasty and a bad person.

​@@gailwebb9619 Ooookaaaay. 😅

I agree with you 100 percent!

Then you might find an hour of TikTok shorts enjoyable.

@@l7846 How is that supposed to improve the writing?

That's an interesting take on the show. I thought the show was consistently good but my break point although late in the entire run was the recent movie. I thought DA a New Era ruined it all for me. I thought it changed the characters too much and just went too far away from the core aspects of the show.

To ask Mary's American grandmother for money to help keep Downton.

Or Grub Hub!! 😂

And why not, the money this family Iived on was hers after all…

It was this addition of Mary’s mother (Shirley MacClaine) that I came to the conclusion that Julian Fellowes didn’t like Americans and what he thought of them … “loud, brassy and way over the top”! You can tell even by the music as her car is driving into the driveway towards the Abbey … no more peaceful, ethereal music … loud and obnoxious. Besides making Lady Cora’s brother look like a fool while introducing himself to the Prince of Wales At Rose’s Presentation gathering (whatever you call it).

Disagree completely. Shirley M did a fabulous job of portraying Cora’s American mother. It was to show the difference between the British aristocracy and Americans.

@@gailwebb9619 You misunderstood me. This was nothing against Shirley MacLaine, but Julian Fellowes feelings about Americans at that time. Loud brassy and opinionated. She even described herself that way in the show to Amstroth (sp?) who wanted her money in exchange for the “Lady” title.

​@@SummerRain368 - Whether or not it is JF's personal opinion of Americans or not, I don't know, but it is a stereotype that Brits view Americans as loud & brash. People around the world have their broad stereotypes about those from other countries.