No she doesn’t have to take an internationally televised joke about a condition that very obviously causes her distress. But good on you for condoning what in another situation would be bullying.

Well to be fair there were a few higher stakes in DA than just those. Like, idk, WWI, Sybil’s death and Bates’s murder conviction.

I swore it was yellow when I saw it on my tv, but looking at the pic here now you’ve got me wondering lol. Anyway much better dress than that first ballgown she wore.

This yellow ballgown of Marian’s was head and shoulders above her yellow Disney princess gown earlier in the season. I’m sure that was on purpose.

This show is a case of when good enough really isn’t good enough. Fellowes needs to step it up next season. He was never this boring with Downton Abbey. He really needs to put some of Gosford Park’s spiceyness into Gilded Age. Hmmm, I may have to pull out my Gosford Park dvd and give it a rewatch tonight. Tomorrow’s…

I should also add that Ike signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. It created the civil rights division of the DOJ and empowered federal prosecutors to pursue interference with the right to vote. The 1957 Civil Rights Act was the first civil rights law since reconstruction, and it helped pave the way for the…

Ike also sent the 101st Airborne in to desgregate Little Rock High School when the Arkansas governor, Orval Faubus, defied the Supreme Court and activated the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the integration of Little Rock High.

Let Ada hook up with someone. (Who is the Che Diaz of gilded age NYC?)

Well we are living through the second Gilded Age. The comparisons have been made for awhile now. And don’t think that wasn’t the plan all along. The Republicans have never gotten over Teddy Roosevelt (one of their own!) the trustbuster (FDR really drove them wild.) They miscalculated with Eisenhower, who turned out to…

Well I will say this, I think 4 years of Trump gave all of us a crash course in narcissism. I’m not diagnosing here but he is a case study in overt narcissistic personality disorder. His niece, who does have a PhD in psychology as well as being a graduate level instructor, agrees with me. 

I was thinking it’s because he read the Cursed Child’s script.

people throw a lot of armchair diagnoses around

That’s one I haven’t heard but I bet you could google it.

Kanye was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder in 2016. You might be able to find the David Letterman interview where he talks about his mental health issues.

Kanye is bipolar and he stopped taking his meds. Plus he’s probably surrounded by about 200 enablers.

Yeah that whole thing definitely felt forced. I guess you could put it down to how no one would have supported a black servant over a white one back then. Honestly though Agnes supporting Peggy the way she has, while admirable, also felt out of character compared to her attitude about everything else. All things being…

Consuelo and Charles Spencer-Churchill were divorced before the annulment. Ava wasn’t the one who initiated the annulment. It was sought by the Duke (who wanted to convert to Catholicism). Interestingly Ava Vanderbilt supported the annulment and testified that she “...forced my daughter to marry the duke.” Consuelo…

This really misidentifies the problem of robber barons.

Well there was pretty much nothing admirable about either the robber barons or the old money New York Society. And Main Line Philadelphia society(Agnes’ and Ada’s origins) was even worse than New York.