I thought last week that killing off Will was going to make for interesting material for every character, and I was right. My favorite moment was David Lee shooing all the interns out of the
conference room so he could have somewhere private to collect himself.
Zach Grenier is fantastic.

SHADAYIM!

The Man With Two Legs!

I had to wait for the onscreen credits before I was sure that that was Jack Davenport because he was unrecognizable as an American! So odd.

Right, they've never killed off a major character before, unlike Grey's where they do it at least once a season and it stops being shocking.

I've been all about Mrs. Patmore this season. Maybe she could have her own plotline next season.

I think what I liked most about this episode was that when it ended I was looking forward to the next season. I haven't felt that way since I finished binge-watching season 1 on DVD a few years ago. But now I'm dying to find out what Baxter's big secret is, what's going to happen with Mrs. Hughes and Mr. Carson…

Maybe it's just that she's never been the favored child, so she feels a certain kinship with Edith. Either way, I think Lady Rosamund is a breath of fresh air every time she shows up.

I appreciated that she at least acknowledged (somewhat) how ridiculous it all looks. She said something to Blake about adding him to the list of men she had disappointed.

To quote the original Upstairs Downstairs series, "He didn't have much go in him."

I suddenly kind of love Molesley.

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

But Bates was in York and Green was at Piccadilly Station in London, so it's all kind of unclear. I think it's possible that he got in touch with one of his buddies from prison and had the guy followed and pushed under a bus, but went to York for the day himself so he'd have an ironclad alibi.

Mrs. Hughes (as usual) and Aunt Rosamund for the win. I especially admired Samantha Bond's performance in Rosamund's scenes with Edith. It didn't really occur to me that she's a lot like her mother, but you're so right. She has that hard-edged, sarcastic humor and a solid dose of aristocratic snobbery, but when it…

I listened to this one as an audiobook on a long drive. I swear if I never hear the word "pudenda" again it will be too soon.

It didn't bother me. I read it as Mrs. Hughes saying to Ivy, if you don't know where that came from, where have you been living for the last five years? And the thing she had coming to her was a tirade from Daisy, not the revelation that Jimmy was a jerk.

Speaking of everybody reading Pride and Prejudice, when they started bickering I was like…welp. There's that trope.

My favorite scene of the whole episode was Isobel pretending to be ill and then looking all over the drawing room for the letter opener or whatever it was. EUREKA!

"This is WAR, Peacock! Casualties are inevitable. You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs, any cook will tell you that."
"But look what happened to the cook!!"

I thought the show worked better when Sherlock was truly sociopathic, and in the first episode of this season I was a little concerned that he had suddenly become more mainstream. But I like that we see him really, really working hard to be like everybody else, and that moment at the end when he's looking at all the…