Downton Abbey - ITV1

It's probably just preparing for a future storyline in which the cook's failing eyesight will finally be found out. She'll then be faced with losing her job until all the good people chip in to buy her a new pair of glasses. :p
 
I just looked it up on Wiki, and it's what they used to call oedema - which is excess fluid in the body (such as in the lungs or around the heart). It's what causes swollen ankles.
 
I'm enjoying it but the aRAB are driving me mad. You'd think they could manage to do something like this without quite so many ad breaks. Still, nice to have some period drama back on a Sunday night.
 
I wouldn't say that I didn't like it. It was OK.

I didn't mind the pacing and slow unfolding of the story, though this 'entail' business was a little distracting and slightly irritating - it didn't need to be repeated again and again. But that's by the by...

What I disliked, however, was the characterisation - maybe because it seemed a little same old, and that I'd seen it all before. The one who truly engaged me was Bates, perhaps because for me the disability storyline is quite a different original take in period dramas like this one. Not only is this particular storyline is a contemporary one (given Iraq and Afghanistan), but may foreshadow the events to come vis-avis World War, making Bates' story even more interesting IMO.

As one poster said, the characterisation neeRAB more work I think. But as a whole so far so OK...
 
I think this is what happened and will come to the fore next week. It would make for a better storyline as rather than just being about Mary's disgrace there is a double meaning with Thomas actions.



I wasnt entirely convinced that at the family's dinner table they would be discussing one of the maid's and her wish to become a secretary!!?

Also with the Turkish guy and his reference to still being a virgin for her husband maybe he meant he would never tell anyone and keep it their secret.
 
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