Once again, it's not that she shouldn't air her opinions, it's the where she does it. You seem to think that people have a right to say whatever they like wherever they like. Well, no, the world doesn't work that way. If you're a guest in someone else's house, and you disagree with their views, you don't have an…

Their talks seem to be more brother-sisterly so far, but I wouldn't put it past Fellowes to make them hook up if that was the only way to keep Tom around.

She seems to be the type of person who likes pissing other people off. She probably keeps accepting the invitations because she likes the feeling of moral superiority it gives her to be around all those degenerate aristocrats.

How much fun was it to see the Dowager Countess for once lost for words? I do believe she even blushed. It was adorable.

Objectively speaking, she's just horribly rude. It's one thing to have fervent political ideals, it's quite another to force them down other people's throats. I absolutely detest Robert and his stick-in-the-mud ways, but in this episode I was firmly on his side. There's no reason why a host should have to put up with…

Oh yes, I agree. Especially in this case, John and Kathryn are even more protective of Daphne than normal, since they missed the first 16 years of her life. But knowing all that doesn't make it easier to watch them blatantly favouring Daphne over Bay.

She's female - any heirs she bears are irrelevant (to the Crawleys, that is).

Cora was probably just trying to remember whether she had a daughter named Edith. She's not exactly the brightest bulb in the place - it's highly unlikely she would figure out anything.

"She didn't need pre-marital sex to know that she was right with Matthew, after all."

I really wish this episode had shown Daphne losing something, or at least not getting exactly what she wanted. No, the fight with Toby and Emmett doesn't count - of course, they aren't going to be permanently mad at her. Daphne needs to not get her way at least once. But no - she even manages to find an ASL…

*Sigh* I'm gonna miss these reviews and the ensuing discussions so much. Thanks for all the great reviews so far, Carrie.

Oh god, that skirt was awful. It looked like it was made of plastic. I momentarily wondered if Daphne had ripped her real skirt and was wearing a bucket or something like that around her waist to cover up.

Lol! 'Wiki my own art' would sound kinda filthy to anyone not familiar with these reviews.

Of course the interpreter will be a love interest for Daphne. Has there been any non-related male character below the age of 40 in Daphne's story who hasn't been a love interest for her? Emmett, Wilkie, Travis,
Chef Jeff, Jace, Campbell, Jorge, Nacho … Daphne has been attracted to all these guys, and except for…

Oh, yes! Silence is the best, and if not, instrumental music is second best. Music with lyrics I understand is the most distracting for me though - I wind up mentally singing along rather than concentrating on what I am reading.

I have come to accept (albeit reluctantly) that all the characters on DA have no lives in the time they are off-screen. They are robots who just switch themselves off and pack themselves into a cupboard when the camera is not focused on them. So even if months or years pass between one episode to the next, their lives…

According to that timeline, this episode was set in February 1924 - which seems utterly implausible to me. The outdoor shots in the episode show lush greenery, and not the slightest sign of snow. Are we to believe that that's what northern England looks like in mid-winter?

Mary wouldn't let her. The pigs are Lady Mary's province - they get the best food possible. No cut up dead newspapermen for them, thank you very much. If they have to dispose of a corpse, it has to be an earl or viscount at the very least.

I sort of get the difference. Being demoted from valet to footman would feel like a personal failure, i.e. like he wasn't good enough to be a valet. But working as an asphalt shoveller would be seen (by himself and other people) as a temporary setback due to external circumstances.

Yeah - the friendship/relationship with Baxter is pretty much the only good thing that's ever happened to Poor Molesley.