Matthew Meets Mary For The First Time | Downton Abbey 

I hadn't thought of it in those terms; brilliant catch! :)

Great observation!

Nice

She's on another level

Very good catch. I noticed also that, when it all ended, Poor Edith outranked everyone, even her father, and Mary wound up marrying (again, literally) a used car salesman.

Exactly 👍

Dajteprevodnasrpski

Great show and acting.

His face gets me every time 😂😂

@@dinadevic6637 I don’t speak Serbian… 😂

top comment is that he was 👁👄👁 the entire scene and it so accurate like-

AGREED .. and beautifully said.

Also very dumb to love a nasty woman like Mary who would be mean to Edith even in front of Matthew and he would still be like.. I love you.. instead of telling Mary to behave herself. He was her enabler.

@@desertrose00 he was awestruck by Mary who was a beautiful high class girl he probably had never met before. Class difference is a big reason. It helps that Mary is beautiful, stylish and smart. Men usually see that first and when he found out how she interacted in her family. It would probably be too late. He was either blinded by love or chose not to see. But he is a good man. There is a consistent message of being or finding “a good kind man” in this show. A good man/woman is a school. That’s how Mary becomes a better person refined by the relationship. That’s what makes this show more interesting than others as a lot of shows nowadays are typically bad man/good woman as protagonists and in reality there are more good women than good men.

@@desertrose00 bro , 95 % of the watchers absolutely adore mary , including me.

Easy on the eyes and a good actor, he can play any role.

I know, they are beautiful.

Watching this, I literally said out loud, "God his eyes!". Love Dan Stevens beautiful man and a beautiful soul

@parrotprodigy productions yes. very much so

They draw me into his soul each and every time I see them. Beautiful!!

In our house we just call him blue-eyes

I think that description is spot-on.

Yeah, Mary was the epitome of the Rich Bitch

I hated Edith

BeanKeeper She clearly doesn’t

Very well put!

Nina SAME

siiiiii p y p

I agree with you

With her being Darcy?:P

It's true, I remember such scene in pride and prejudice...

but she didn't deserve him she refused him many times and when she couldn't have him, then she falls in love with him? wtf

tsevca It was a great show right to the end and I’m also looking forward to seeing the film later this year. Matthew and Mary were very cute together but I loved Henry!

@@madapigi1 People have the tendency to be very harsh to Mary. I see it differently. If it was a contemporary series and she refused him to work on her career, people would praise her for being a strong female character that puts herself before any man. She would be a role model. But that is exactly what she did. For women in her position, their social status was their career. The only career they were allowed to have. And she was very independent, femminist character in her own way. More than her sisters, despite the series not showing it very evidently. That's why she was my favorite, because she had no naive dreams like her sisters, she was very realistic. Being the law fair, she would inherit her father's title and she knew she would do well, but here comes a stranger taking her family's inheritance (Matthew wasn't happy about it, but still came and took his place, so from what she knew, it could have been just playing nice guy.) and the only way for her to stay in her own home was to marry the guy, who was just months before far beneath her. For a strong woman like her it was humiliating. Accepting him with open mind would realisticly never happen. And marrying him without being the heir would mean giving up everything she worked for her entire life (Those women built their social careers from before being even born). She didn't refuse him absolutely, she needed time to think it over, but he wanted her to decide immediately. She was a realist and just like I can't picture myself giving up my job and leave everything to be some man's wife in 3rd world country, that decision was equally difficult. Just because she had the brains to think about it before hastily saying yes and then not being able to live like that, that doesn't mean she didn't love him enough or deserve him.

@@tsevca thank you! Finally! Sybil might have been the one with more liberal ideology (though I hate how they killed her off without having her achieve something) and Edith might have had the most feminist arc, but Mary was the more strong and independent one, right from the start. I don't get most Mary criticisms, especially in the early seasons (the last season I felt that they kind of butchered her character to give Edith a lift, though why they couldn't have evolved the relationship between the sisters and have them work together, instead of the mess we got, I'll never know).

@@QuarterLifeCrises You know why the criticism? Because people are generally unable to judge historical shows with any consideration to the setting. They always only see it from the modern point of view. It's almost a new way to judge the quality. The better the authors capture the views of that period, the angrier reactions.

Why would he date his cousin though

@@helenarichard People used to marry 1st cousins and 3rd cousins centuries ago, if they couldn't find anyone else good enough then the cousin would do. But not marry 2nd cousins because it meant their children could have deformities.

@@helenarichard she is his third cousin and third cousin marriage is normal

I think it’s 4th cousin actually

What do you mean by and not deaf. There was nothing wrong with her hearing from what i saw

Upper middle class lawyer... (lol)

@@weedermann But that's what he was...

She probably never was offended. She was upset that she would inherit anything

I remember a brief exchange between Mary and Mr Pamuk(?) that made me laugh. Marriage was mentioned in a very offhand way. Mary: My family would never allow such a marriage. Mr P: Nor mine. Mary:

So true..

Kelaiah01 Oh yes!

Facts

He was so dumb on leaving the show. Plot would've been better had he been alive.

I always like love at first sight hahaha

He looks a bit like a young Donald Trump.

@Quaker 2019 Actually it’s not.

@Quaker 2019 I’m saying he physically looks like the D. 😆 End of Conversion.

Unfortunetly he changed now

Got a bit of a slouchy posture. Other than that, yes, he’s gorgeous.

Like this? 👁👄👁

@rach d Because previous generations basically "sat" on their money or wasted it to such a degree presumbly drinking/gambling that estates simliar to fictional Downton Abbey fell into ruins of sort. So that around 1870s at the earliest American heiress were travelling to England to marry into noble households. That money is what recused somewhat estates like Downton

@rach d I was talking about BEFORE WWI hence why Robert had to marry Cora.

Her accent drives me crazy.

she's a terrible actress. by far the worst on the show. mosely is more believable than her

more her night class and elegance I'd say

Sun Bull but there’s a huge difference .

Yeah I found that ironic and hilarious!

Dojocho Hear!! Hear!!

Little bit of a mistake with the skirt, though - the actress is clearly wearing a sidesaddle *apron* at 3:38 (for safety) where it's plain to see her boot and the stirrup, and the rest of the 'skirt' of her 'habit' behind her. I wondered how she mounted her horse so darned fast, apparently without aid of a groom (or one who vanished magically).

It is enthralling, isn’t it? I’ve watched it in its entirety five or six times, and I notice something new every time. I just finished watching it the whole way through. I know the story really well, which makes it much easier to notice things like the furniture and paintings in the background. It’s really interesting. Now that you’ve seen the series, you’ll have to watch the movie too. I really had misgivings about it. I didn’t think they would be able to give enough attention to each character within the time constraints of a movie, but it was managed very nicely.

@@lim4275 I look forward to it!

@@ginadisbrow9324 I think you’ll really enjoy it! 😍

same here. it took me a week. have you watched the 2019 movie?

@@ErenMortel Not yet, but I hear great things about it and hope that it will be released soon through Netflix or Peacock. I can't afford anymore streaming services. I hope it was very enjoyable for you!

He was awestruck by her beauty

I'm going to do my *first ever rewatch* nearer the time of the release of the film later this year. ☺

IKR!

.. and I just melted when I saw him!

Matthew & Mary were the show for me and I stopped watching at the end of s3.

Ed Exley lol

I agree. But this is the second episode.

that went south real fast: i thought u were going to say excited to watch it all over again

agog

He always looks like he has adrenal fatigue or cfs though.

gray

It's on Netflix now

Well the movie comes out later this year! :D

@@LucyLovettLestrange For real? Or are you kidding?

@@ladytrashcan5829 REALLLLL!!!!! :DDDDDDD

@@sousamina Oh wow! Thanks a lot. Now I am hyped

I miss it too😭 sanditon is pretty good

Yeah lol; but I mean I think it's good they changed. It shows that they both had somewhat black and white views before, but after experiencing that world themselves, they saw the other point of view as well; that's my opinion :D

I imagine Violet was exactly like Mary in her youth.

Sibyl was the prettiest, but I actually think that Edith was a very beautiful woman, too. Her face looked like that of a greek statue.

@@teddy9770 yesss! Edith also had suuuper youthful plump perfect skin, shiny hair (wigs I know, but I really liked her hair colour) and puppy dog eyes.

Matthew was the prettiest ;)

Gaby Kapps I thought Sybil and Matthew would’ve made a better couple

@@lilyk7326 I know right?

Ikr, I was so sad when he died 😭😭

It was still very much worth the watch

But Mary and Henry are really cute too

Alys Pardeé Yes, but no one will top Matthew and Mary as the top Downton couple for me anywau

SAME 😭 I just couldn't .

Meja Kerusi i was just scrolling and found a spoiler oooof

Judy, I was thinking the same thing, and a rather moronic, unthinking one. LOL!

He sure was snobbish about his new valet. The way he ignores him made me laugh at first but then you really feel for the guy when he says "This is my job sir" and Matthew replies "Well it seems like a rather silly role for a grown man". But he's not a jerk, just kind of ignorant about the lives of the aristocracy.

@@elamplough1 Even understanding how it worked, many people would feel uncomfortable if they were suddenly expected to stand around while a stranger does things for them all day that they can do themselves, like pouring a cup of tea or even getting dressed in the morning.

@@snowangelnc Yeah, when you're not used to that kind of living it's just kind of instinct to such basic things yourself. Although I am glad that Matthew did make an effort for the valet feel more useful as time went on.

Matthew was a man of real character just like Lord Grantham. He was willing to give up millions of dollars he inherited from Mr. Swire just because he thought it was wrong. There aren't a lot of people out there willing to do that.

This is a late response but when I saw him dead my heart stopped and I screamed. Then I broke down in tears. My stress levels were like 📈📈📈📈📈

me and my mum, too. At 88 she was like "Oh, THOSE EYES !"

He’s a real man, not a 🧚‍♀️

Ok, youre pride of being gay. Congrats. You have the attention you wanted.

He will be a guy very soon And remebering my comment

Creepy

So true, she’s been my absolute favorite seen episode 1 😤

fucking hell yes

If your Christmas is utterly ruined by a fictional character, you have some real problems.

@@tangenty6987 and you are devoid of empathy. I wonder which one’s the real problem here.

Yes I agree

You can legally watch them on Amazon Prime or just illegally watch them elsewhere (online, Torrents etc., ) when you have the time.

The whole thing is also on Netflix if you could get your hands on someone's guest account.

Sharona Padalecki illegally what

same

I've got popcorn!