![]() Did anyone follow exactly how he was killed? It was extremely convoluted and unlikely and valiant though the efforts of the Hopeless Expositionary Policeman were to convey this twist, it all seems rather shrouded in mist. Photograph: Nick Briggs/ITV Random subplot alertįinally we know that neither Anna or Bates killed Mini-Den, the valet Green. Sergeant Willis (Howard Ward) arrives to try and explain what happened in that murder that no-one quite understands. This was over the illicit hotel visit with Tony Gillingham on the day of The Famous Monkey Haircut.) And Cousin Violet and Cousin Isobel are at war over something very tedious about a hospital. (I presumed the Mr Pamuk blackmailing would return here but I was wrong. ![]() (“You let those children run you ragged.”) Lady Mary wants to run the estate but not before seeing off a nasty blackmailer lady with a pronounced regional accent. “Yes … but do you expect to share your, er, way of life?” If this were an episode of Friends it would have been called The One With Too Much Information. Except she wasn’t able to come out with that and so we saw her navigate the situation with a series of increasingly desperate but brilliant euphemisms. Making Mrs Patmore ask Mr Carson if he was only marrying Mrs Hughes so that he could get his end away. This was one of the most enjoyable mini-plotlines in the whole of Downton’s history. ![]() Hooray to the max for this first episode of the final season, though, as Carson and Mrs Hughes are still getting married! But what’s this? She’s having doubts? Oh, only about taking her pinny off in front of Mr Carson. And so we return to the usual collision of wonderful emotive acting performances and ludicrously bonkers exposition.
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