The place where they were eating was gorgeous too. Would anyone know which place it was supposed to be?

Doesn't seem likely to me. Rosamund didn't have any particular fondness for Edith until Edith started spending so much time in London (and therefore in Rosamund's house) in order to be near Gregson.

Yeah, more sets would solve the problem. I wonder why they don't do that? Given DA's enormous popularity, Fellowes is probably raking in the cash, so money can hardly be a constraint.

There are other servants in Downton Abbey - there are at least 3-4 other maids that are seen in the background in various scenes. But they apparently don't live in the house, since they're not seen around the servants' dinner table. Maybe they are dailies who come in every day to clean or whatever but live in the…

That's a good idea - Bates probably got some prison buddy to do the dirty deed so that he himself wouldn't be directly implicated in Green's death. After all, did he even have time to go to London and back in one day, let alone track Green down and get the opportunity to do the deed?

To be fair, I assume that they have only limited access to shoot in Highclere Castle - it's still a family home, AFAIK. Obviously the family doesn't want the TV crew in all the rooms.

He's hardly the only soap opera writer to use pregnancy for drama. It's a fertile (no pun intended!) area for all sorts of melodrama.

Yeah, I know what a dowager is - I meant that the position that Mary would be in would be similar to that of a dowager countess when George becomes the earl.

Technically, he is God in the Downton Abbey universe.

I have a lot of trouble telling Blake and Gillingham apart as well … so I don't bother. The context is usually enough to tell who is who, and if not - what difference does it make? They're just two nearly-identical members of Mary's 'Desire of Suitors'.

Mary will never officially be the dowager countess, but she will be the Earl's widowed mother when George comes into the title, which is what a dowager countess usually is. So she'll have the same role as a dowager, if not the title. Besides, I think we can safely say that whatever Mary's position in life in the…

I agree that the idea of Peggy getting 'discovered' could have been handled better, to give her more agency - for instance, she could have voluntarily taken an interest in copy-editing after hearing some of the pitches by the creative team.

Mad Men Season 7 premieres on 13th April … and Game of Thrones Season 4 on April 6th. Arrgh! Two whole months till April … I can't wait!

I think it's pretty realistic that the thought never crosses Joan's mind, at least at this point in time (she may have thought about it later, when Peggy abruptly goes on leave between the first and second seasons). Joan thinks Peggy is a prude, because she doesn't flirt with the men, or even seem to welcome their…

This is part of a larger question whether it's possible to depict people acting sexist (or really, doing anything negative at all) without seeming to condone it in any way. It affects practically every form of fiction, especially period drama.

Certainly, there are certain aspects of the show that can be criticized from that point of view. But we're talking about the feminist aspect specifically, to which that point of view really does not really apply. In what possible way does Mad Men glorify the misogynist attitudes towards women in the 60s? How many…

It still baffles me that people can call Mad Men anti-feminist. Do they not watch anything more than the pilot, or look even slightly beneath the surface?

Nope … he'll die in the middle of a pitch, as Roger prophesies in this episode.

As much as this is Betty's episode, it's the scene between the other two main women of the show that I find most memorable about this episode. I love the Peggy-Joan scene, especially this line from Peggy: "I just realized something … you think you're being helpful." It so neatly encapsulates Joan's character and her…

Kathryn's book idea seemed like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Surely the people whose extremely private stories she would be divulging would be less than thrilled about it.