I assume that it was on how not to get pregnant until she was sure he would marry her if she did get pregnant.

You're missing my point entirely. Read my first post again. I basically don't buy Mrs Hughes' reaction in the first place.

No, she didn't. It was ambiguous at best.

It's the same issue that Edith has always faced in her family - only this time, it's working in her favour: i.e. no one cares about her enough to waste more than a second or two thinking about her or her doings.

The drool-worthy outfits are one aspect of Downton Abbey that never disappoints!

The rest of the world wouldn't treat the two any differently.

Aww, Alfred is a sweet guy. Dreaded O'Brien genes aside - which, admittedly, are a potential problem - he's quite a catch among his peers.

It's realistic enough, but it's hardly entertaining. In any case, no one ever accused Downton Abbey of realism, so why would it start being realistic only in this one aspect?

While I was perfectly happy to see Edna Braithwaite get kicked out of Downton Abbey, as she was little more than a mustache-twirling villain with no depth, the way her dilemma was handled felt very poorly handled. Mrs Hughes didn't know for certain that she wasn't pregnant. If she had been pregnant, then wouldn't Mrs…

Or pathetic helplessness. The actress is adorable, but Daisy as a character is getting on my last nerve. All she ever does is stay in the background and complain, refusing to take any initiative to change her own life.

He's a valet, not a footman, dammit! A valet does not wear gloves!

He's part Italian, part French. I'm doing a rewatch of SaB, and I just saw the episode where Angelo is introduced. He tells Bay she has Italian and French ancestry, and that she has relatives in France. In another episode, he and Kathryn bond over the fact that their Italian ancestors came from the same part of the…

I don't know if it's particular to SaB, but according to TV Tropes, some shows deliberately downplay the music, and maybe the looks of a game so as not to distract from what's happening on screen. Which is valid enough (though still annoying).

No one in the SaB props/sounds department seems to have ever played a video game. Apart from the 'beep-boop' sound effects problem, Toby and Emmett regularly seem to keep playing games that are older than them. It bugs the heck out of me.

So how terrible is Angelo? He has the emotional maturity of a spoiled 5-year-old. He couldn't take care of his infant daughter for more than a few days on his own, and had to return her to her adopted parents - and he somehow manages to blame that on his girlfriend?! Ugh, what an asshole.

Lol! My first thought was 'Bunheads!' too … I vaguely expected a Bunheads style dance routine or something.

Maybe Sean Berdy pissed off the producers/writers/director or someone, and got his role slashed as a revenge.

This is my understanding of the situation:
The Crawleys weren't exactly thrilled with Tom marrying Sybil - Robert was dead set against it, in fact. But once it was presented to them as a done deed, they had no choice but to accept it - and accept Tom as a member of the family. Now that it's been a few years since Tom…

Dame Nellie Melba was a real opera star of the late 19th & early 20th centuries, and she happened to be Australian. On the show, she's played by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, who is also a famous opera star, and is from New Zealand (and yes, is of Maori descent). I assume there isn't a long list of famous Australian opera…

So Penny is going to become the Joey to Leonard's Chandler.