One of the few good things about having moved recently and having to change my cable company is that I get HBO and all the other movie channels free for three months so it was perfect timing.

Well like most season premieres mostly place setting, and some of the story lines I"m most interested in (Theon/Ramsey, Jaime/Breinne) were not in this episode but still had some awesome shit in it.

Forget sheep! Alpacas are the wave of the future!

I'm loving her, she always knows when Carson needs to be knocked down a peg or two.

Me too…now him and Thomas can go back to glaring at each other.

Yes, she needs to have a torrid affair that will shock her family but she just won't give a shit, cause it's the twenties so fuck it she will just be one crazy dame.

I would be a member I hope she doesn't listen to stick-up-his-ass Lord Grantham and writes that newspaper column.

I really liked this episode and the season in general. I can't imagine what batshit storyline they will have for us next year, but I hear a lot of the same actors will be in it.

I'm sure Thomas just has some nefarious plot up his sleeve involving the new footman, though a redemption story for him would be good. Unfortunately it seems that Thomas has only one setting-asshole, as Bronn would say there's no cure for being a cunt.

I'm so ready for Lockdown: Bates Edition to be over with, we know he's going to be found innocent and eventually return to Downton so lets just get on with it.
The Ethel storyline is really sad and I would have liked nothing better than to see her kick the grandfather in the nuts and tell him to fuck off but I agree…

As long as you wear white tie, wearing black tie to dinner would be the real scandal.

This! I was thinking it would be cool if Edith fell in with some Bohemians or became a flapper. Someone needs to shake things up at Downton now that Sybelle is all domesticated.

They were definitely making too big a deal over the Sir Anthony's age and "disability" so much so that I thought there was something else going on with him that would be revealed in a dramatic fashion (that he had a secret lover or was secretly broke or secretly gay or something) but no he was just old. And Edith…

Yeah, I had to just roll my eyes when they were looking at their other country "house" and wringing their hands about how small it was and "wouldn't they be cramped?" Yes, going from a 100 bedroom mansion to a 50 bedroom mansion times are hard. Branson seemed to be the only one to see the absurdity of it.

I thought so too, now the only question is how she ended up eating the poisoned pastry when she meant for Bates to eat it i wouldn't have blamed him if he shoved it down her throat.

Well, Christmas has come early for me, Ian McShane as a murderous Santa, Sister Mary Satan and her crazy tree, Kit and and his hallucinations of both his "dead" girlfriends, Arden saw the aliens, and Lana and Kit fucked up Threadson, what more could you ask for?

Well, Christmas has come early for me, Ian McShane as a murderous Santa, Sister Mary Satan and her crazy tree, Kit and and his hallucinations of both his "dead" girlfriends, Arden saw the aliens, and Lana and Kit fucked up Threadson, what more could you ask for?

Gotta love it, cross referencing American Horror Story and Game of Thrones. I'm surprised the universe didn't exlode when you did this, it's too much awesome for my little puny brain to take.

Gotta love it, cross referencing American Horror Story and Game of Thrones. I'm surprised the universe didn't exlode when you did this, it's too much awesome for my little puny brain to take.

Great finale, they really upped their game after last season's disappointing finale.
I'm glad Tig got the dog, at first I didn't know if he would enjoy the dog fight but it seems right that a crazy motherfucker like him would have a soft spot for dogs.
I thought Jax could have easily let them killed Tig cause he's a…