I agree about every point.

I just wish the remembrance of Sybil scene hadn't been interrupted by Robert. I thought Edith and Tom should have had something to say too.

The problem is, Mary's given no indication that she'd die for Edith. More likely, she'd push her under a bus.

Oh you poor innocents … thinking that the Mr. Green crap is over. Fellowes isn't likely to let go so easily. If he can milk a terrible story, he will milk it, even when the cow goes dry and dies of exhaustion. There's a reason the story was left open-ended. In the first episode of season 6, we'll learn that the…

No, I'm happy to report I haven't had that experience.

Penny and Leonard are a terrible couple, but so would Penny and Sheldon be. Just because a person dislikes one pairing doesn't mean that one automatically has to support the other.

Perfectly possible.

She may have been talking about a non-Jewish branch of her family. If, for example, her mother is Jewish but her father is not, she would consider herself Jewish, but she could have been talking about the history of her father's side of the family.

Two or three months passed between this episode and the previous one. That's still a pretty short engagement, of course.

That's what close-captions are for! ;)

Maybe because of the similarity in names?

Rose's parents are indeed broke. But the smallness of the wedding had nothing to do with that, I think. The Crawleys would have picked up the tab, if that had been the case. The wedding was small because it was an inter-religious one. The Aldridges, understandably, would not want a traditional church wedding, and the…

I agree. One of the many reasons I'm against a Tom/Mary pairing is that Tom deserves far better. I used to dislike him in the earlier seasons, when he was annoying and abrasive about his political views (though a rank amateur compared to Miss Bunting). But he's grown so much as a character these past few seasons. Sad…

That's really the only reason to watch it. I often say that Downton Abbey improves on being watched on mute.

Or she wants to keep a record in case hiring prostitutes is tax deductible.

It'll end with Matthew Crawley in his Manchester home in 1912 coming down to breakfast, and telling Isobel "Mother, I had the strangest dream last night …"

Hey! Finn belongs to Alicia Florrick. Hands off him, Lady Mary!

Yeah, it seems likely that they give the very young kids something to keep them quiet while shooting. After all, it's not like little George has ever shown a facial expression.

Could someone who might know about these things tell me if it's possible for photographs to be developed overnight in the 1920s? It was my understanding that developing photos was a pretty long-winded process at this time.

Photos of your unsuitable son-in-law to-be with a whore: Priceless. For everything else, there's MasterCard (or a chequebook).