What could possibly go wrong? And why not? Matthew’s plan is too much like work. While the bromantic Branson and Matthew look to be planning the Normandy invasion in the drawing room, Lord Grantham, instead, wants to invest with this Ponzi fellow who promises to double your pleasure, double your fun in ninety days. And speaking of big babies, the ever-sympathetic Lord Grantham who’s only interest (aside from cricket) is getting this succession business on the road, is still stalking off in a snit whenever Matthew tries talk about the running of the estate. And who do they discover there? Each other! What are the odds? They’re told they’ll be up the duff within six months, and while we have learned not to have any faith in any of the doctors who turn up here, now at least we know why Mary has been putting Matthew off. One supposes it doesn’t help that they are under a lot of pressure to produce a boy, (look at what that pressure did to Anne Boleyn), and it also doesn’t help that Lady Mary cannot talk about her lady bits with her husband but they are both quietly panicking and secretly running to London to see a specialist. This week Lady Mary Crawley gave her granny a run for the money in the quotable department when she said, ‘You’ll make me untidy.’ While that kind of talk might be a turn-on for some guys, it’s kind-of tough to make babies when your wife comes to bed in a hazmat suit. What will she do now to try and keep him from spilling more?ĭoctors Appointment of the Magi: Love is Strange They don’t know what it means but it’s out there, and given the way Anna shares things with Mary, will they put two and two together? With Anna’s newfound detective skills it’s just a matter of time, isn’t it? Will O’Brien be caught in a lather? I must say it was fun to see her terrified, and she must know that it was Thomas who gave her away. But, as they used to say, if you want to get someone’s attention, whisper – and what did Bates whisper in O’Brien’s ear? The very deliciously cryptic (to them) ‘Her Ladyship’s soap’. There is no one more self-righteous than a hypocrite. But before she goes, they try to reason with her about Thomas, but she’s having none of it. Then after she leaves they (smartly) smudge the place to clear their chi with some sage that Shirley MacLaine left behind. Against Anna’s wishes they lure O’Brien to their newly redecorated abode for tea and arm twisting, under the guise of borrowing their Ikea catalogue.
Bates is happy to see Thomas go until he realizes he is being unjustly given the bum’s rush-then the old noble Bates re-emerges. Bates thinks replacing Thomas is sweet revenge, not realizing that the person most responsible for his recent troubles (i.e. Lord Grantham seems happy to see him, though he quickly leaves him standing in the hall as he scuttles off to do whatever it is the idle rich rush off to do-but not without first promising him a vacation, a cottage and a job.
Simply glorious! So Bates is back, baby, and the first two post-prison issues to address (aside from learning his and Anna’s new theme music?)- where to live and what to do. Trouble will find us soon enough and in the meantime, as Anna & Bates are driven home, we are treated to a gorgeous panorama shot of Downton from a vantage point we’ve not yet seen: The road at the top of the hill. But not to worry-for now we’ll be happy and we won’t borrow trouble. In a recent interview Julian Fellowes said “Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness…When two people are happy, that’s it," he said, “That’s why in the old movies, they don’t kiss and marry in the middle – they kiss and marry at the end, because in a way that’s it." Translation: If these heirs and heiresses didn’t have their tsurises, we’d have no story and Downton Abbey would have been a travelogue that ended after an hour in Season 1. Will this be a happily ever after? Of course it won’t.
There will be no more prison sewing circles, no more burlap cigarette smuggling, and who knows…you might be able to get one of those ‘Free Bates’ t-shirts on clearance…įree at last! Reunited And It Feels So Goodīates is released into the loving arms of the long-suffering Anna and our long, national nightmare is over. The nation breathes a collective sigh of relief as our erstwhile hero Mr.
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