Yes. I had forgotten. That's why he went to Germany in the first place. If he became a German citizen, he could divorce the crazy woman in the attic (thanks Charlotte Bronte)!

I guess he has film and TV work but nothing like the exposure he would have gotten had he just stayed in. He has the kind of looks where he could easily play other parts and not get type-cast, IMO. But they don't have a male lead that qualifies to replace him. Unless Fellowes is going to introduce some new one at the…

Well, I think the real problem is that the series should have ended with the Christmas engagement in the snow. After that and the insane difficulty of explaining away and repairing the plot after the death of Matthew in the next season, it's all been downhill. Fellowes keeps repeating himself ad infinitum and…

I'm also willing to let Mr. Bates go. I can't stand this murder subplot. It's "like deja vu all over again."

I know. Fellowes appears to spend the time and effort to make some characters 3-dimensional and relationships between them ring true, such as Mrs. Hughes and Carson. Then there are these flat, uninteresting, completely non-sensical characters, such as Jane, the woman Lord Grantham was infatuated with. With these…

Yeah. Let's just imagine back when he might have had to choose between Sybil and Miss Bunting! That would have been a difficult choice! LOL.