I just finished the finale. I loved it! I'm so glad everything was tied up with happy endings. I kept waiting for another car crash or tragedy.
Maybe I am just paranoid, but does anyone else think Lord Merton's daughter in law was poisoning him? I suspected it from the time they announced he was sick, and then he got *so* much better under Mrs. Crawley's care.
I definitely wondered this! She is awful (perfect for Larry).
...I hope that Barrow keeps his promise to be a nicer guy now that he's back at Downton, and I hope that Bates can get over the fact that Thomas will now ALWAYS outrank him....
I used to like Bates, but he's been such a weirdo recently that I no longer care is he's bothered by Thomas outranking him.
...I hope that Barrow keeps his promise to be a nicer guy now that he's back at Downton, and I hope that Bates can get over the fact that Thomas will now ALWAYS outrank him....
I used to like Bates, but he's been such a weirdo recently that I no longer care is he's bothered by Thomas outranking him.
A few years ago I was stationed in the UK, and we lived in a really small town one town over from where Brendan Coyle (the actor who plays Bates) lived. I never met him (he moved away when DA became huge), but many of our friends knew him and general consensus was that he was an asshole. The kind of guy who yelled at the teenage checkout kid at the local grocery for not ringing him up fast enough. So if you're picking up creep/jerk/asshole vibes from Bates....yeah, that's not some marvelous acting. He's really like that.