Well, Matthew has a little farm just down the road that needs to be productive …

It looked like the kidneys were whole and just left in a pile in the middle of some pastry.

"Tall guy …"

The help are always criminals.  The lords and ladies are forever burdened by the low morals of the servant class.

I definitely checked out a few times during this episode … I don't care about Bates and Anna, I don't care about Thomas (who, honestly, has more lives than cat) & O'Brien and ooooh, Thomas fancies boys again because we've completely forgotten about that since episode 2.  I don't care about the whore Ethel and her big…

@avclub-4bb7060783a83e05c806e08ea1fa1c6e:disqus Inconsistency in character, as you point out, could very well have to to do with the time frame of the show (seven years) and only getting brief glimpses of the family versus a show like Breaking Bad which follows the tremendous rise and fall of a character in detail…

And that was an homage to Beverly Hills 90210 because Brandon and Brenda Walsh moved from Minnesota to California.

And that was an homage to Beverly Hills 90210 because Brandon and Brenda Walsh moved from Minnesota to California.

Why did Tesar and Lizzie have a cook-off, but no other chefs have had to do so?

I'm sure her food is fine … but in the Top Chef format she certainly has time management issues.

During my telephone interview, I was told not to bother with a suit and tie for the in-person interview because the guy interviewing me was only going to be wearing his "dress" fleece, anyway.

Science & Engineering, man.  Our VP of engineering barely mumbles a hello and walks around the office with his head down all of the time when he's not barricaded in his office behind a closed door.  Morale in the office has been shitty since he was promoted because he doesn't talk to anyone except his one trusted…

@avclub-78c86aa171e1ab86948a7e10c471fc63:disqus I guess it depends on which school you went to.  I graduated from a rural school that was very close to upper tier university.  My graduating class was 120 kids (more or less, we had a few girls drop out because they preggers).  Most of the talented and gifted students,…

@avclub-78c86aa171e1ab86948a7e10c471fc63:disqus I guess it depends on which school you went to.  I graduated from a rural school that was very close to upper tier university.  My graduating class was 120 kids (more or less, we had a few girls drop out because they preggers).  Most of the talented and gifted students,…

Yeah, but there's truth that there are loads of women in costumes to tease attendees at conventions.  They're models.  They get paid to drive attendance and interest.  They do it for nearly every convention.

Yeah, but there's truth that there are loads of women in costumes to tease attendees at conventions.  They're models.  They get paid to drive attendance and interest.  They do it for nearly every convention.

Especially since he didn't slice the fish to order and relied on slicing everything before hand and then stacking it all together.

I hate the team challenges.  They're awful.  If they're going to do a team challenge, then at least pick the two least successful and make them fight it out to see who stays.

If you're asking a general question, I'd say Sybil in a landslide.

It would be nice if his character had some depth to it and that as he struggled and failed to preserve Downton, he lashed out and became more controlling over the smaller bits of his life.  He didn't have much money (he had the title and the estate, but not much capital) and he married Cora for an emergency infusion…