My guess? She's a hottie, so she's got other, better career options and was written out of the show to pursue them.
PS: I'd like to think that the progressively horrendous haircuts they were giving her was their way of subconsciously prepping the audience for her demise.
"Morphine...Atropine" That toff quack just started naming anything which came to mind to look like he had something to say.
What the ******** is with Mary getting all up in Matthew's shit about trying to un******** the finances of the estate? How many fortunes does Robert have to lose before somebody (besides Matthew) decides it's a good idea to take the rich kid's hand off the tiller?
This is the kind of drama-for-drama's-sake storyline that mars Downton Abbey, in my opinion. Although the performances in last night's episode reminded me of why I keep coming back to the show.
Heads up. There is an article in the Washington Post about Sybil and Eclampsia. The comments immediately under if contain what looks like a major spoiler. Some jacknut, basing his/her/its sense of superiority on the fact that he/she/it had already streamed the whole season from the UK when it first aired felt the need to heap scorn and pain on the mere mortals waited to watch it on PBS.
After tearing through these 3 seasons, anyone have some solid recommendations for some other similar/related, or just really good British dramas?
Series: Upstairs, Downstairs. Same themes, done better. Feature Film: Gosford Park, similar themes, done better. Series: The Jewel and the Crown - a fairly complex look at a period of time near the end of the Raj (featuring the snooty doctor who poo-poohed the pre-eclampsia diagnosis as the villain, sort of).
I see that the sympathetic light shone on Mary in Series 2 has been turned off, and she's back to being her usual cold, petty bitch. Poor Matthew.
Loved Maggie Smith since "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" She can hold a show on her own. The writers have turned Mathews wife into a whiney voiced, grasping bitch. Now she has his inheritance in the family she want's to cut him out of any say in it. "We'll squander it in the best family tradition" Wonder if they'll offer the Irishman his job back.
Cora Crawley is beyond right to blame her dolt of a husband, Robert, for the unnecessary death of Downton’s most beloved character. I love the way the press have treated this like "real life news" Always finishing with "What can you do if you have deathly eclampsia." Wonder how many doctors were inundated with new cases, some even pregnant ones. At least we don't have to listen to Sybil's anoying voice anymore
And while I'm on a role. One of my favourite shows from way back, (1974) was probably the forerunner of this show. It was Called "Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill" Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Churchill in this seven-part, seven-hour biographical mini-series. Of course I was in lust over Lee Remick but she smoked too much, got cancer and died....end! People never listen or learn.
Guess everyone has given up on this one. Last Sundays show was a bit easier to watch as Lord Robert continues to FU.
I'm still watching, but I just didn't quite have anything to say about it. Mrs. O'Brian is really stirring the pot with the Thomas-James thing. That's gonna blow up real good.
Upstairs Downstairs had some really great insights into the politics of the time. Especially the idea of the conservative party as custodians of the working class. Its funny because in some respects we have come back around to those times. Where millionaires in parliament are apparently the best qualified to know how to help the poor.
Upstairs and down and Downton Abbey both share the same attitude of the servants somehow being part of the family and that the family cared for them. It makes for interesting TV but in reality it was something a 'little' less than that.
They seem to have moved on from Sybil's death rather quickly. As for the Mr. Barrow affair... I doubt the household would have handled it with such equanimity, understanding and kindness. It's really a very silly show. Much better than season 2, though. No question.
I watched the 2 hour show this rainy afternoon. Good show this week with Bates out of the nick, did anyone really expect Thomas to get sacked? Yeh, unrealistic but fun. Then we all end up jolly good pals during a cricket match. Quite civilised if you ask me.
So... did folks watch the finale? I, too, have been laying low because I tore through the full season early. Last night was the Christmas special, right?