The Guardian: In some ways, Downton season two has been even more enjoyable because it is so unintentionally? Some still argued dementedly, in my view that Downton was just the same as it had always been.
Personally I am torn between feeling utter betrayal and total delight about season two. Which strikes me as a very Downton place to be.
Could it be that it is actually better because it is worse? Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day. Branson confesses his love to Sybil. Lady Edith drives a tractor and kisses a farmer. Newspaper tycoon Richard Carlisle comes for dinner and proposes to Lady Mary.
Isis has free reign. William goes off to war but proposes to Daisy first. Bates works at a local pub. Full episode guide for Downton Abbey Season 2 Episode 4 Cora and Isobel clash over the alpha position at the hospital.
Matthew and William go missing on the front. Ethel the maid gets pregnant by a soldier. Lavinia stands by Matthew. And so does Mary. William marries Daisy before he dies. Sybil and Branson plan to elope.
Lord Grantham kisses a maid. Bates may be implicated in the murder of his poisoned ex wife. Matthew and Mary kiss. Lavinia dies before her wedding. Matthew can walk again. Anna and Bates get married. Edith and Anthony Strallan are smitten.
Sybil is pregnant. Bates is sentenced to hang. Isis goes missing! A fight ensues. The servants ball is a wild success. Matthew proposes to Mary. Downton survives while other great houses are financially crippled after the war. Edith is jilted at the altar but becomes a newspaper columnist. Bates is in prison for the murder of his ex wife.
The arrival of new staff downstairs creates awkward love triangles. Thomas tries to kiss Jimmy with bad results. A tall footman arrives. Anna stands by her man. Sybil and Branson visit from Ireland. Matthew and Mary get married. Mrs Hughes has a lump in her breast. Ethel is a prostitute. Robert threatens to sell Downton Abbey. Matthew inherits some cash. Lady Edith is jilted at the altar. Bates is a dangerous prisoner. Branson is on the run from the law in Ireland.
Another new footman arrives. And an electric toaster. Lady Edith becomes a newspaper columnist. Isobel offers Ethel a job. Lady Sybil dies during childbirth. Lord Grantham loses his bedroom privileges. Baby Sybil will be catholic.
Edith lunches with Michael Gregson, the newspaper editor. Still, having just seen Matthew miraculously heal his Raggedy Andy legs with Dr. He shepherd-hooks Mary aside after dinner, as the ladies are about to go play bridge, and asks her to set a date for their wedding immediately. Pamuk with her pops. They hug it out. The murder trial he mentions is, naturally, that of poor Mr. Bates, who will hang after the excellent prosecution took Dr.
We interrupt your scheduled recap to bring you a public-safety announcement. Do you know where your pedigreed yellow lab is? It is presently 36 degrees outside. He asks if they were in love. We are making embarrassing enthusiastic noises! Still, at least the emotional charade is behind us. With Matthew and Mary together, Downton can hopefully get rid of some of the forced obstacles that weighed it down this season Sorry, Lavinia!
Fewer storylines, more Matthew and Mary twirling! Repeat this to yourself during hiatus, Sir Fellowes. But hey, about that murder trial. Hughes could have aced that testimony, but no: instead they all treat the witness stand like their own personal therapy session, spilling out secrets and damning evidence like a twelve-year-old at a slumber party.
Good lord! Stop talking , Lord Grantham! Pro tip for anyone who is ever called to give evidence in support of his valet and BFF: do not mention the part about how the defendant once muttered something about wishing his wife were dead. Just pretend that you do not remember. Barrister there had been hiding in the closet and knew exactly what went down? Poor, dehydrated Bates, with nothing but prison scenes in his future.
Joanna Froggatt handles the visitation scenes well, trembling just enough for the both of them, but we were most moved by her honest, heartbroken bedroom scene with Mary. Is anyone selling Free Bates t-shirts yet? Also, is it time to place bets on who actually did kill Vera Bates.
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