SHe didn't turn him down, she was trying to come to terms with what her life would be like if he wasn't the heir, remember it was pre-war and a pretty big deal for her. Cora got O'Brien'd before she had made up her mind.

Am I the only one who thinks that Mary was totally justified in not wanting to fall for a race car driver? Did people think she was just lukewarm about Matthew? Did they all forget how long it took her to break out of that fog? And then, to add insult to injury, the whole family and he assume that it can't be…

Obviously she needs to send Gillingham a fruit basket for breaking the curse on her death snatch.

And once again, watching Downton Abbey with my 10 year old twin boys, I have to explain a bloody mess. I stammered and spluttered a bit before I finally came up with, "He was so sad, he hurt himself to try to make it stop. That never works, by the way." I need to talk to them tomorrow and remind them that no matter…

I like to think the Drewes are somewhere cackling over their Edith voodoo doll. Poor Edith my ass.

I thought the country song was to make us think of them like Johny and June.

I think I like it, but it's more of a guilty pleasure like than a prestige drama like. I think if they go more comedy with dramatic moments than drama with comedic moments, the show will feel more balanced. The characters are so laconic, there's not much to get tense about.

I frankly preferred the time spent on the car race and Mary's increasing agitation during it to all the planning and plotting for the Gillingham sex romp. This has been one of the few episodes I actually empathized with Mary. Ice queen she may well be, but she wasn't with Matthew, and I think Tom's actually wrong on…

I really don't see this as a B-. Sure there was some tonal whiplash, but it was everything Downton needs to start wrapping up at this point. As Mrs Hughes so sagely mentions, "It's life."

From the Borgias, Cesare and Michaletto. Talk about unrequited love.

I see why that may have bothered you, but that was actually relevant to the product being sold, as you can ask the speaker to find/play music for you, so it was a dual purpose plug.

I got quite a chuckle out of Amazon's Baldwin vs Marino bitch-off. Nobody else found that funny?

I've been referring to Robert all day as the "Downton Fountain." I'm starting to wonder if I'm a terrible person?

Mad men directly addressed the assumed different reactions people would have to the scene with roger joking about how it was a shame he lost the foot just after he got it in the door, and Harry damn near passing out watching the blood being cleaned off the office window.

I was laughing so hard at the shot of Cora getting splattered, I may have peed a little. My twin 10 year old sons were very disturbed by mommy laughing to the point of tears at a man bleeding to death on a pretty table.

I'm selfishly terribly upset by this, but I hope he got to go out on his own terms and it was as pleasant an exit as anyone could ask for.

Because servants didn't get married before the war, especially not housekeepers and butlers. They'd marry after they retired, but not while they were working. Maybe try watching the "Manners of Downton Abbey" special, the aristocrat narrating the series does a much better job of explaining the social mores that…

I can't remember what season it is, but during one of their evening chats, Carson says something more personally complementary than usual, Mrs Hughes replies that it makes her feel like she should be checking her looking glass to make sure her hair is tidy (gently accusing him of flirting), and Carson growls, "Get…

Mrs Drewe knows. When Edith "ran away" last season, she showed Mrs Drewe the birth certificate to prove she had the legal right to take the child.