Remember how they let go of Moseley before the ground settled on Matthew's grave? He just got on his bike and did anything that paid a wage. That scene he had with Anna, apologizing for complaining about his situation, took him right out of the comic servant role and gave him a dignity he never lost.
Whereas Thomas…
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Arnold Bennett:
" . . . Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, of real importance. Written with a certain sporting negligence of composition, it has much originality and much beauty, and is certainly right past the comprehension of nineteen M.F.H.’s out of twenty.
Many honest open-air fellows who buy this first prose work of…
It's possible that JF looked at the arc of the series and decided that the true Christmas night end-of-series happy finale would NOT be Mary's wedding, but someone else's.
"I'm glad, though. You're a kind man, Mr Molesley. It's about time you were rewarded for your kindness."
Words that so far in this season, Carson realizes that he will never hear.
Like Frank Booth.
Love AND a title.
Just like every other partner she's considered until Talbot.
Great visual metaphor at the end of their last scene. She's tall and lovely looking back at him, and he diminishes with every step away from her.
from what Laura Carmichael has said, that may be off-screen emerging on-screen—she loves working with Samantha Bond.
And who interfered with the family's dishonest scheme to keep the knowledge from Mary of the wounded Matthew's return to Downton? Who told Mary that he was back, so she could go to him?
And what has Edith done in all that time—aside from bickering with Mary—that merited such a life-destroying attack? Delivered with…
He did that all through the thread of the start of her writing career.
"They'll never publish it."
"He's just using you for your name."
But then the whole family, aside from Tom, treats her the same way.
"While she certainly would have looked better if she'd been willing to throw everything away for love, the fact is, few people are actually willing to throw everything away for love."
Go back and look at Matthew's manner of existence at the end of the very first episode. It's not like she'd be living in a hovel. She…
He wuves Mistah Bawwow, and you'd need a heart of flint to resist it.
It was a stretch for both characters and actors. I thought Fellows was channeling Tracy and Dex in "The Philadelphia Story", and I thought they all brought it off.
I'm here to put a tether on the fetus.
I didn't take it as extending an olive branch. Edith, for once in a clear position of superiority, can lay down her own terms that Mary can only agree to. "These are the future terms of our relationship, and it's not up to you to dispute them."
A kinder, gentler version of d'Hubert at the end of "The Duellists".
Carson still thinks that nothing is as good as being footman in a great house. He also knows that when Moseley leaves, either he'll be stuck with Thomas, as now seems the case, or he'll have to do more work.
"So was the subtext of the Marquess' death conversation that he committed suicide also (and not did of malaria?"
No, nothing to indicate suicide; it was just the circular language to describe a gay man. Not as obvious as Mrs. Patmore's "He's a TROUBLED SOUL" to describe Thomas to Daisy.
Definitely got a feeling that…
No tirade, but Robert was even colder and more brutal than he's ever been:
"That's rather below the belt, even for you."