I'm terrified that they're setting Thomas up for suicide or at least a suicide attempt. The poor chap just can't catch a break at all. It all just seems to be piling up on him.

Sure, Talbot is dull. But that doesn't mean that Mary should fall for the closest thing she has to a brother. This isn't Game of Thrones!

I know - she was positively frumpy in earlier seasons. I think Laura Carmichael (or her agent) might have put her foot down and demanded to be better dressed in this final season.

It's not just her age (though that's a factor too, of course), but the fact that Mrs. Hughes has been a professional housekeeper for decades. Yet Carson thinks she can't run a household!

So far. Who knows what Fellowes will pull out of his ass in the remaining few episodes? I really hope he refrains from a Tom and Mary pairing, though - it would be just wrong on so many levels. They're cute as brother and sister, but would be just terrible as a couple (Carson and Hughes level of terrible).

I thought he was a breath of fresh air on The Good Wife: an actual nice human being is a pretty rare commodity on that show. Almost everyone else is out to screw everyone else and/or just looking out for number one.

He was a tenant on his previous farm as well, and yet he told Daisy that it would be hers after he was gone. I don't know the actual laws regarding this, but my impression was that he could leave her the tenancy in his will.

Not really. It's a more Victorian idea of marriage - and even that, a more extreme and idealized view of marriage in the Victorian times, not something that actually occurred on a general basis. The Bates's marriage* is more in line with the 1920s notion of marriage: the man is most definitely the boss of the family,…

Eh, he's not Mary's type, i.e. he's not rich, handsome or titled. Mary probably thinks he's a loser, and therefore just what Edith deserves.

The fetus did it! It's related to Bates - so it must be a murderer, of course. Sergeant Willis arrests the fetus. Hurrah for British justice!

She probably thought he was the hallboy or footman-in-training, or something like that. In Violet's world, people are either the rich or their servants; there are no other categories.

I get the feeling that Andrew is only interested in Daisy insofar as she is Mr. Mason's heir, and will get his farm when he dies.

Maybe she thought that he might unbend slightly when they dealing with each other as equals. But then again, Carson's idea of marriage seems to be one where the husband is the boss and the wife the uncomplaining servant.

Mary's romances have all been really weak and snoozeworthy. (I really wasn't a big fan of her and Matthew either, but I'll admit that they did have some good moments, such as when Mary gave him the stuffed toy when he was leaving for the war.) All her similar-looking, moderately handsome, dark-haired men in the past…

I didn't see anything remotely triangle-like about Mary, Talbot and Branson - if anything, Branson was acting in a thoroughly brotherly manner, by tactfully bowing out and letting Mary and Talbot walk home alone.

Such a waste of Matthew Goode. His character was so much more interesting in The Good Wife, but he was literally shooed out of that, probably because he got a role on Downton Abbey.

"They call it internal bleeding for a reason, you know!"

Yeah, I guess that may have been the subtext - though I'm not entirely sure whether Mary has really pieced together the Marigold puzzle, or whether she's just become aware that there is some secret concerning her.

How is it that Mary manages to make everything she says to Edith sound bitchy?

To Violet, her son projectile-vomiting blood at the dinner table and the under-butler dropping a roll probably seem equally horrifying.