Mosley, usually the mild comic relief in this show, is given a more serious purpose than dying his hair, as Baxter's staunch friend and supporter. Lady's maid Baxter still has a secret that Thomas Barrow has been holding over her head since last season, beg pardon, I mean series. All of the ladies head off to dinner in drop waist, hip-hugging dresses that do their bums justice and would knock any man's garters off (or are we up to elastic socks now?).ĭaisy's got a secret. Her grief at bay, she's back to baiting Edith with the occasional insult and she looks like a young girl fresh from her coming out ball. Lady Mary is back to herself this season. “Even now we must decide whether to share our lives with someone without ever spending any real time with them. She wants to make sure that she and her future husband are compatible in, ahem, every way. Lady Mary wants to put the Merry in the phrase Merry Widow and she is not about to, pardon the expression, buy a pig in a poke. Matthew must have rocked her world even more than Pamuk. In keeping with this theme Lady Mary, ahem, wants to make sure that she is "as happy with her second husband as she was with her first." Lady Mary, belying her outward Ice Queen demeanor, has always been the most sexually progressive of all the Downton women. We need an intervention luncheon immediately. Call Lady Shackleton, an untitled Doctor and the snobby butler. Crowley could result in her Downton BFF attaining greater status than herself as a married Countess, not a widowed one. The Dowager herself is reduced to matchmaking once she realizes that Lord Merton's attentions to Mrs. An understated sexual revolution of sorts is taking place at Downton and we can barely keep the lid on this boiling pot. Carson's subtle but open crush on Downton's ever patient housekeeper, Mrs. The footman and under-butler having a racy conversation about women and *gasp* men, by default due to Barrows orientation. There will be far less of you than we're used to seeing, leaving Barrow and Mosley griping. Goodbye other nameless footman and maids running about. Hope you're happy in America and thanks for leaving Daisy all the extra kitchen work. Servants leave and they are decidedly not being replaced, leaving more work for the main characters left behind. This left the rich and titled without people who no longer found dignity in working for a pittance and board in exchange for the honor of being attached to a "Great House." This was called “The Servant Problem.ĭownton is finding that having to pay people a real wage means that ready cash doesn't stretch as far as it used to. Once upon a time, people decided that working 12 hour days, six days a week, in a shop, factory or mill was sheer liberty as compared to utter subservience to the rich and titled. Carson isn't above being told how the common woman takes her tea. Carson, is given nearly as high a regard to the villagers as His Lordship - possibly more-so because he knows more of the men who died in the war personally. Would a village delegation have arrived in my grandfather's day to ask his butler to head an appeal? They ask Carson to head the memorial committee, putting His Lordship's nose out of joint. It's not really Lord Grantham's opinions the villagers care about. Especially if that field is his cricket field. To his credit, he does seem to feel that the War Memorial belongs in the center of the town, rather than further afield. Lord Grantham isn't keen on giving up his cricket field, even though it is only used once a year. They feel quite comfortable badgering His Lordship into giving up his Quidditch Pitch- beg pardon- his cricket field, for use as War Memorial Garden. The villagers are no longer over-awed by the people of the Abbey.
Now we're seeing how the not-so-elite have changed as well. Last season we heard a great deal how economics have changed since the war and the fight the large estates are having to hold on to their elite way of life.
DOWNTON ABBEY SEASON 5 MANUAL
Manual labor to labor saving devices such as mixers and vacuum cleaners. From horses and carriages to bicycles and automobiles. We've gone from corsets and petticoats over form fitting dresses to more forgiving drop waist frocks. In previous seasons, change at Downton has mostly been represented by technology and fashion with a few major historical events thrown in for good measure.
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