Carson's feathers are continuously ruffled. Thomas Barrow (Rob James-Collier) is still skulking around in the shadows, gathering secrets, threatening to use them, getting stymied at every turn, then miraculously doing something that garners him enough goodwill that he sticks around longer than necessary. Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) and her general stiffness are still around, although she's now warming to the idea of 20th century ideas of sex before marriage and trying to get to know someone before you actually say yes to marriage. Her bastard baby is being cared for by some townsfolk and Edith simply walks around with a glazed look just begging for the Edith Googly Eyes website to work its magic. Edith (Laura Carmichael) does the most Edith thing she possibly can and almost burns down the abbey while wallowing in her grief that she is indeed, Edith. His usefulness is disappearing, and he wears it on his face as much as he possibly can. He sulks around the house after being informed that the villagers would rather have Carson head one of their committees instead of him. An old-world aristocrat hanging on for dear life, as the world around him changes. Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) is becoming more and more aware of his obsolescence. I have to admit though, season five dives right back into all the 'Downton Abbey' tropes I love to hate. Just watching the residents of Downton Abbey exist. Sometimes a big wave comes in and splashes my legs a little, however, most of the time I'm just there. Most of the time I feel ambivalent toward it. And all I do is just stand there, letting it wash over me. People walk around a house, have breakfast, attend dinner parties, walk around some more, attend socials, retire to drawing rooms, etc. Hughes, I couldn't help but think it's a perfect metaphor for how I feel about this show. Hughes (Phyllis Logan) frolicked on the beach with the rest of the help, fade to black.Īfter reflecting on the final episode of season four, the waves lapping at the feet of Carson and Mrs. As season four drew to a close, forgetting its silly season three finale-wannabe-cliffhanger, we watched as the Carson (Jim Carter) and Mrs.
At times it was commendable how much nothing they were able to fit into every episode. Both actresses could easily carry weighty subplots on their perfectly sculpted shoulders, so perhaps they just happened to be visiting the set and Julian Fellowes decided to shoehorn them into the script.I recently joked with my wife that if 'Seinfeld' were less funny and more British it would be 'Downton Abbey'. Chancellor plays arch and sexually predatory Lady Anstruther and Walter is stuffy but wry as the Dowager's old friend Lady Shackleton, introduced and quickly discarded as a potential suitor for the Isobel-smitten Lord Merton. We're spoilt for choice here, with both Anna Chancellor and Harriet Walter making blink-and-you'll-miss-them appearances, both doing what they do best. Then again, since one of his grandchildren is currently being raised by a pig farmer who moonlights as a fireman, that's the least of his problems. Poor Tom - he even gets upstaged by his daughter, who has taken to calling Lord Crawley 'Donk' in a misplaced attempt to remind us that he's a family man.
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Spirited socialist teacher Miss Bunting seems to have wandered in from a different series altogether where she plays the spunky, iconoclastic lead - she clearly thinks she's being charmingly modern, when actually she's just the rather rude love interest of a less-than-interesting character. Grant.Meanwhile, you wouldn't think that such an already-bloated cast would need any addition, but it seems that, having adjusted to life as a single father and proxy aristocrat, Tom is now in the market for a love interest. What this says for the Countess' future is uncertain but since McGovern's band, Sadie and the Hotheads, have been touring a lot lately, the Earl might want to pay more attention to his wife unless he wants to lose her to Spanish flu or upcoming guest star Richard E. It seems that Cora is getting tired of being less of a character than an occasionally convenient plot device a bewildering choice from creator Julian Fellowes, since Elizabeth McGovern is considerably more talented than some of her co-stars, Hugh Bonneville included. Lord and Lady Grantham are having marital problems of their own, although Robert is largely oblivious, to the point of forgetting their anniversary.
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