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Cousin Isobel, Downton Abbey, Foreign Series, Lady Edith, Lady Mary Crawley, Masterpiece, Matthew Crawley, Recaps, TV
This episode was pretty much, Cousin Matthew is missing…not. Of course I didn’t want him or William to be missing, but I wonder why they set that possibility up only to have it resolved so lamely with Cousin Matthew coming in while (HIGH RISK SCENE ALERT) Lady Mary was singing for the officers. If he hadn’t been supposedly missing, would people have been more mad at him for just coming in mid-performance and stealing the Crawley Sisters’ spotlight? He can be so like his mother sometimes.
Speaking of Cousin Isobel, I was quite glad to see her do everyone a favor and ship herself off. Naturally I don’t want anything to happen to her in France (though she might come back with another husband just to make the doctor jealous – am I the only one who thinks that’s she’s totally feeling him?), but I really disliked her. I’m no Cora fan, but I enjoyed the scene where the Countess totally modes her immensely.
I suppose it’s a big deal that Bates came back to be the valet, but I actually felt sorry for Molesley since he looked pleased as punch at the thought of moving up in the world. And then Bates takes his shoe horn – insult to injury, no? And poor Ethel. Not only is she unemployed and pregnant, but the man she slept with does stupid magic tricks. You could do so much better, Ethel. At least you’re not boring like Lady Sybil and Branson.
I’m glad Lady Edith is growing up and becoming nicer, even putting Major Magician in his place when she sees him get too friendly with Ethel. Are they never going to talk about her little pastoral interlude with that farmer? Did she just imagine that happening?
And I hope that the previews for the next episode are exaggerating Lady Mary’s plight. It does seem to be certain that Sir Richard finds out about the Pamuk Affair, but I hope she’s not ruined completely – I think I’ve grown the most fond of her, after Maggie Smith, of course. But really Mary, you have a huge secret like this and you choose a newspaper man for a beau? Come on!