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Then...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Act MMXVII of \u003cem>Mary and Edith Almost Tear Each Other's Hair Out But Don't Because They're British\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong> Edith has a date.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Edith:\u003c/strong> No, I don't.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mary:\u003c/strong> Of course not.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Edith:\u003c/strong> What do you mean, \"Of course not\"?\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mary:\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20119\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20119\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7.gif\" alt=\"marcia gif\" width=\"245\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7.gif 245w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7-64x64.gif 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7-96x96.gif 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7-128x128.gif 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7-75x75.gif 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Edith:\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/giphy-11.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20120\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20120\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/giphy-11.gif\" alt=\"jan brady gif\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much for that giggle-inducing letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20121\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20121\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34.gif\" alt=\"marcia jan brady gif\" width=\"245\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34.gif 245w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34-64x64.gif 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34-96x96.gif 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34-128x128.gif 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34-75x75.gif 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, sad puppy-eyed Baxter does not giggle while reading a letter from the Sergeant about her testimony. Bates comes in to mansplain that she should think about what she wants to say before getting on the stand. Thanks for the valuable intel, Sherlock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas comes in to hit on Andy for the zillionth time. Andy literally says \"Thanks, but no thanks\" and walks off. I CAN'T HANDLE ANY MORE OF THESE SCENES, JULIAN FELLOWES. JUST HAVE ANDY STICK A BUTCHER KNIFE IN THOMAS' HEART AND BE DONE WITH IT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*collects self*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, where were we? Ah, yes. The old people are upstairs scheming about how they can get the most out of the Health Minister's visit. Cousin Isobel's self-righteousness has officially become a supporting character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs in the shoe polish room where everything always happens, Bates and Anna grill Andy about why he's so rude to Thomas. Andy says he's gotten to know something about Thomas, something he doesn't want to say \"with a lady present.\" Bates and Anna are like \u003cem>LOLOL We've known he was gay since before you were born, bucko! \u003c/em>Andy goes on to say\u003cem> No homo \u003c/em>a thousand times in a row and Bates and Anna give each other a knowing look that says\u003cem> Does the closeted gay protest too much?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Carson/Hughes sex cottage, Mrs. Hughes serves Carson dinner like a good early 20th century housewife. He complains about the meat not being cooked to his liking, the plate being cold and the knife not being sharp enough like a typical early 20th century husband. Mrs. Hughes hates her life and regrets everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, everyone makes Edith feel bad about her date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_nigx43prIp1qkgh4go2_r2_250.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20124\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20124\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_nigx43prIp1qkgh4go2_r2_250.gif\" alt=\"jan brady gif marcia\" width=\"245\" height=\"285\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Mrs. Hughes tells Patmore and Daisy all about how Carson is an entitled, sexist picky-eater who probably is one of those people who claim cilantro tastes like soap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sergeant comes in because it's been more than an hour since he's bugged everyone. Baxter leaves with him as if she's walking to her own death. Molesley fumbles along because the \u003cem>Downton\u003c/em> writers are trying to turn them into Bates and Anna version 2.0. Return to sender. The original version is more than enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhere on the grounds, Branson and Mary talk about her new boy toy. \"I don't mean to sound snobbish, but I won't marry down.\" A totally reasonable thing to say to the former pauper who married into your sister's wealth. Someone forgot to take their chill pill this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the village, Denker takes a break from blackmailing Spratt to intimidate Dr. Clarkson for switching hospital merger teams. Is it just me or does Denker's wig deserve its own SAG Award?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a courtroom somewhere, Baxter tells Molesley she doesn't have to testify after all because criminal dude changed his plea. So the whole point of this anti-climactic storyline was for us to witness Molesley follow Baxter around and help her put on her coat so that when they get together in the end we won't be like \u003cem>That was undeserved! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the farm, Daisy and co. are all unpacking her father-in-law's things and no one thinks about the fact that the only reason this place is vacant is because of a child abduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary and Branson stop by to tell Daisy's father-in-law that he's old and how they're concerned he won't be able to take care of the pigs. Andy randomly lies about how he and Mr. Mason have made an arrangement for Andy's young limbs to counterbalance Mr. Mason's feeble ones. Everyone's like \u003cem>Ok cool.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, Edith is on her date. They talk about how his boss is not married and likes to spend all his time in Tangier painting portraits of young men. Ummm, I think we found a boyfriend for Thomas! You had your chance, Andy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edith makes a sexy (for Edith) proposition: \"Come to my flat for a drink, I'll show it to you.\" Her date replies: \"What a racy plan.\" He seems like he would be a really good texter and emoji user. I hope he doesn't have any plans to hang out in Germany anytime soon. #RIPMarigoldsDad\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the middle of nowhere, Branson and Mary watch her new dude race cars. Branson gives her a hard time for not enjoying the speed and spectacle. Uh, did he forget that this is triggering because her last husband died while driving too fast?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, Edith interviews a woman who was born in 1892 like herself. They commiserate over being Victorian babies who grew up into modern women. New bestie alert (since it doesn't seem like Virginia Woolf is going to let Edith join the Bloomsbury clique)!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the farm, Mr. Mason wants Daisy to come live with him. Seems kind of creepy, but she'll probably do it. Mr. Mason looks at Daisy and then Andy in a way that makes me worry the\u003cem> Downton\u003c/em> writers are going to put these two together. I should start doing eye exercises now, just in case, so that I can eye roll as hard as I want when the time comes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Cora and Robert are baby sitting. Baby Sybbie says something problematic about \"red Indians.\" Kids say the darnedest things, don't they? Robert's side pain is back and he has to sit down. Will the Grim Reaper's scythe be more sharpened than Carson's dinner knife?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Dowager's house, she receives a tattle-tale letter from Dr. Clarkson about Denker, who is fired on the spot. Spratt's lucky day. Her going away party is going to be so boozy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a pub (!), Mary throws a few back. Her new boy brings up Evelyn Napier (former suitor -- until Mary told him he was boring -- and bestie of the Turk who died in Mary's bed). They make plans to have dinner with him soon, which won't be awkward at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the servants' hall, Andy and Thomas have the most boring conversation about pigs and books about pigs. Oscar Wilde would be so disappointed. All the words in the world and they use these.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Edith's single lady flat, she and her date drink fancy cocktails. Her forehead is wearing jewelry. She explains that she's over Downton and dawdling in Mary's wake and wants to be a hipster in London forevermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her date is a good listener. He also knows how to pick the right cafes for dinner so Edith green-lights a make out session before they head out. Unlike Mary, Edith tells her date that she doesn't care about his whole I-don't-have-money-and-work-for-a-living thing. Mazel tov, you crazy 1892 babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Downton kitchen, Daisy is apparently jealous that Mr. Mason is making new friends because she hasn't been crazy enough this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson walks in on Daisy, Patmore and Mrs. Hughes chatting and asks Patmore: \"I wonder if you might go through the cooking of [dinner] with Mrs Hughes. It's been a while since she's played with her patty pans, and she's got some catching-up to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_mfvo0utjuk1r6wo6vo1_500.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20128\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20128\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_mfvo0utjuk1r6wo6vo1_500.gif\" alt=\"oh hell no gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Hughes, this is why annulments are a thing. Time to drop this sexist dud and go back to your blissful celibacy immediately!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Dowager's, Denker is complaining about being fired. Spratt wins me over for the first time with this response: \"How did it happen? Were you drunk?\" Boom! But he's not done!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Denker:\u003c/strong> Am I to blame if I have a very \u003cem>passionate\u003c/em> nature?\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Spratt:\u003c/strong> Any more of that talk and I won't be able to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Go in, Spratt, go in!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Cora and Robert's room, they both take turns complaining about how annoying this Health Minister dinner is going to be. Then Robert complains about his side pain again, but refuses to skip the meal. Is he going to croak at the dinner table? Is that the only thing that will shut up this dumb hospital debate once and for all? If so, so be it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Thomas hears a crash and investigates. Andy threw a book because he's dyslexic. So his big secret isn't that he's gay, but that he can't read??? Seriously?!?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/teresa-table-flip.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20129\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20129\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/teresa-table-flip.gif\" alt=\"teresa-table-flip\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas promises to help him learn how to read and Andy apologizes for being super homophobic these past few months. Then, Thomas wins an award for Most Melancholic Smile Ever to Grace Lips. And I win an award for Best Continuation of a Recap Despite Wanting to Never Watch \u003cem>Downton\u003c/em> Again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Dowager's, Denker has decided to (shocker!) blackmail Spratt into convincing the Dowager to unfire her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, Bates and Anna gossip about Mary's love life. Then, Bates says he wishes everyone was as happy as he is. So he means he wishes everyone would skulk in the shadows, grumble sinister things and continuously get away with murder?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spratt got Denker her job back so we can put this whole blackmailing/bullying thing to bed, right? Not so much:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Spratt:\u003c/strong> Oh, and Miss Denker, I don't want to hear another mention of my unfortunate nephew.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Denker:\u003c/strong> Oh, well, that rather depends.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Spratt:\u003c/strong> On what?\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Denker:\u003c/strong> On whether or not I need to mention him again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This show is exhausting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the rich people hangout room, the Dowager arrives just in time to witness Robert have more side pain. The contractions are getting closer and closer together! Sybil's ghost's revenge for messing up her delivery and killing her in the process?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dowager has Carson change the seat assignments for dinner. Robert warns that she's switched to \"a very junior seat.\" The Dowager's reply is in French -- \"Il faut reculer pour mieux sauter\" -- but fear not; I have a French minor (*cough*and access to Google Translate*cough*) and can tell you that it means: \"You must step back to jump further.\" Let the games begin!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Health Minister arrives and everyone is trying to grab him. He totally dyes his mustache.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Daisy criticizes the Minister's lack of support for unions and Carson congratulates him for it. Can someone explain to me why the Downton fandom likes Carson so much? His opinions are terrible and he's not funny or charming or fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, all the old people fight over the hospital and the Health Minister is turned way off. Robert puts an end to the fighting by grabbing his side, standing up AND SPEWING BLOOD ALL OVER THE TABLE AND EVERYONE AND COLLAPSING AND VOMITING ON THE CARPET.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, I thought he was going to die, but damn! Color me shocked. Also color me red 'cause I think some of his spewed blood went through the screen into my gaping face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once I write \u003cem>Downton\u003c/em> off as a predictable bore, something like this happens! It reminds me of when \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em> featured a lawn mower amputation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/01-lawnmower.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20131\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20131\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/01-lawnmower.gif\" alt=\"mad men lawnmower gif\" width=\"437\" height=\"246\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare and contrast:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/downton-abbey-graphic-bloody-robert.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20146\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20146\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/downton-abbey-graphic-bloody-robert.gif\" alt=\"downton-abbey-graphic-bloody-robert\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I feel kind of bad because I think all the mean things I've written about Robert (albeit valid complaints) may have contributed to him getting an ulcer and that ulcer blowing up all over Cora. Did I do thaaat? (in Urkel voice).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, Robert is not doing well. He keeps puking up blood. He chokes out a proclamation of love for Cora while everyone screams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the servants are freaking out too. Carson tells the maids to get coats for Cora and Mary. \"Don't forget Lady Edith.\" Even in times of crisis, the writers can't help but crap all over poor Jan Brady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_nib4rjOEKT1r6k6v0o1_400.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20132\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20132\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_nib4rjOEKT1r6k6v0o1_400.gif\" alt=\"jan ignore brady gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"228\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, the Health Minister tells Cora: \u003cem>Ummm, I think I'm gonna go... \u003c/em>Then Cora and the Dowager argue over the hospital some more because this seems like a good time for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dowager brings up the secret of Marigold and Mary overhears and realizes \u003cem>Wait a second...Edith's 9 month vacation and the random mute baby that hangs out with my son all day just might have something to do with each other! \u003c/em>By George, I think she's got it! (Took her long enough).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medics arrive and cart dazed, confused and blood-soaked Robert off. Everyone follows...except for Branson who is straight up chilling and doesn't seem to be bothered one bit as he leisurely gossips with the Health Minister. Looks like I'm not the only one who holds a grudge against Robert for killing Sybil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some time later, the servants are all hanging out downstairs waiting for news. Andy is not reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson gets a phone call and delivers the news: Robert had surgery and is going to be fine. Yay, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Mary and Edith get back from the hospital. They're finally alone and no one is around to stop them from finally having a duel once and for all, but enough blood has been shed this evening. Plus, Mary's too weirded out by Edith being someone's mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Edith goes to bed, Branson rolls up wearing a casual robe because he's been kicking back with zero worries since Robert spewed his insides all over the mansion. Mary tells him that they should take over all control from her dad so he doesn't worry and get another ulcer. Branson rightfully proclaims this The Age of Queen Mary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_myzjm4NVyZ1s5lf2ro1_500.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20137\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_myzjm4NVyZ1s5lf2ro1_500.gif\" alt=\"beyonce bow down gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"246\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And scene!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After every episode, it's only right to reward characters who've impressed and diss the ones that haven't, so here goes:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> Carson: \u003c/strong>Make your own F-ing dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Mary: \u003c/strong>She was very chill about hanging out at a dirty pub. Also, she wore a tie for much of this episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>BRONZE: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Thomas: \u003c/strong>So sorry Andy's dyslexic instead of gay. Classy move teaching him how to read anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>SILVER: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Cora:\u003c/strong> She handled having blood puked into her face pretty well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>GOLD:\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>Robert's Exploding Ulcer:\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>It did the impossible: revived this lackluster final season and almost killed one of my least faves. Good work, blood-filled combustible!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Previous Season 6 recaps:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/24/downton-abbey-season-6-episode-4-recap-i-will-remember-you/\" target=\"_blank\">'Downton Abbey' Season 6 Episode 4 Recap: I Will Remember You\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/downton-abbey-season-6-episode-3-recap-chapel-of-love-wedding\">‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6 Episode 3 Recap: Chapel of Love\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/10/downton-abbey-season-6-episode-2-recap-all-that-she-wants-is-another-baby/\" target=\"_blank\">'Downton Abbey' Season 6 Episode 2: All That She Wants Is Another Baby\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/03/downton-abbey-season-6-premiere-recap-lets-talk-about-sex/\" target=\"_blank\">‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6 Premiere Recap: Let’s Talk About Sex\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s been a week since \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/24/downton-abbey-season-6-episode-4-recap-i-will-remember-you/\" target=\"_blank\">Sybil's ghost returned to Downton\u003c/a> to make everything right. Will she still be floating around this week and come up behind Branson while \u003ca href=\"https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/ghoflop1.gif\" target=\"_blank\">he's molding clay at a pottery wheel\u003c/a>? Will she hide all of Cora's coats to incite a class war? Only one way to find out! On with the show!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's moving day for Daisy's father-in-law. See what having insane daily outbursts and stalking people will get you? Lots of square footage, but imagine all the really bad juju left over from Marigold's kidnapper. Here's hoping Daisy had the good sense to steal some sage from Mrs. Patmore's kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a hill overlooking the Abbey, Branson asks Mary if she's pissed that he orchestrated handing over the Drews' farm to Daisy's mooch father-in-law behind her back. Mary says it ain't no thang 'cause now that there's a new hunk on the horizon and baby George is out of diapers (not that she ever changed any of them herself), her rage issues have subsided. Or maybe the London miscarriage-preventing doctor wrote her a prescription for chill pills? Either way, drop a pair of shades on Mary's face 'cause she's as cool as a cucumber these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the downstairs kitchen, Mrs. Patmore asks about the move and Daisy reveals that her father-in-law moved all his crap into the front courtyard and the Drews haven't even moved out yet! Way to rub it in! Zero couth!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite getting her way, Daisy is still super bitter about her father-in-law's former landlord. Girl, get a life! Or take that exam or whatever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Patmore and Daisy decide to go on an outing to visit the farm (probably to point and laugh as Marigold's kidnapper, her husband and all their newly homeless kids move out). Andy pops out of nowhere to invite himself along. For once, Thomas isn't there to be brutally rebuffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Edith gets a letter from her newspaper deadline crush that makes her giggle as loud as she has to in order to get her dad's attention. Before Robert can get into the birds and the bees talk with her, the Dowager waltzes in with a new scheme to stop the hospital merger. She plans to use a Crimea war connection (sometimes I forget she's 2 billion years old) to get the Minister of Health to pay a visit and listen to all her reasons why the family should retain control. 1. Because. 2. Um...yeah, that's about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert doesn't think she can pull it off, to which the Dowager uses my new favorite insult: \"Don't be jejune!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the kitchen, Mrs. Hughes wants to have dinner with Mr. Carson in their new cottage instead of with everyone else. Guess she's taken a liking to being naked around the hubster. Mrs. Patmore gives her a hard time and Daisy says she's just jealous. Mrs. Patmore is like \u003cem>Uh, duh! I'm a 50-year-old virgin!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dining room, Robert tells the fam that Mary's new husband who I should probably call by his real name at some point wants her to join him as he looks at a car. Branson invites himself because he's funemployed and then asks if Edith wants to come too. She declines because she's come to enjoy being the outsider martyr. Then...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Act MMXVII of \u003cem>Mary and Edith Almost Tear Each Other's Hair Out But Don't Because They're British\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong> Edith has a date.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Edith:\u003c/strong> No, I don't.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mary:\u003c/strong> Of course not.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Edith:\u003c/strong> What do you mean, \"Of course not\"?\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mary:\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20119\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20119\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7.gif\" alt=\"marcia gif\" width=\"245\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7.gif 245w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7-64x64.gif 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7-96x96.gif 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7-128x128.gif 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni7eyy8ngC1t5kjw7-75x75.gif 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Edith:\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/giphy-11.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20120\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20120\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/giphy-11.gif\" alt=\"jan brady gif\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much for that giggle-inducing letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20121\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20121\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34.gif\" alt=\"marcia jan brady gif\" width=\"245\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34.gif 245w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34-64x64.gif 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34-96x96.gif 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34-128x128.gif 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_inline_ni57w0Uft51qzsc34-75x75.gif 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, sad puppy-eyed Baxter does not giggle while reading a letter from the Sergeant about her testimony. Bates comes in to mansplain that she should think about what she wants to say before getting on the stand. Thanks for the valuable intel, Sherlock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas comes in to hit on Andy for the zillionth time. Andy literally says \"Thanks, but no thanks\" and walks off. I CAN'T HANDLE ANY MORE OF THESE SCENES, JULIAN FELLOWES. JUST HAVE ANDY STICK A BUTCHER KNIFE IN THOMAS' HEART AND BE DONE WITH IT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*collects self*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, where were we? Ah, yes. The old people are upstairs scheming about how they can get the most out of the Health Minister's visit. Cousin Isobel's self-righteousness has officially become a supporting character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs in the shoe polish room where everything always happens, Bates and Anna grill Andy about why he's so rude to Thomas. Andy says he's gotten to know something about Thomas, something he doesn't want to say \"with a lady present.\" Bates and Anna are like \u003cem>LOLOL We've known he was gay since before you were born, bucko! \u003c/em>Andy goes on to say\u003cem> No homo \u003c/em>a thousand times in a row and Bates and Anna give each other a knowing look that says\u003cem> Does the closeted gay protest too much?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Carson/Hughes sex cottage, Mrs. Hughes serves Carson dinner like a good early 20th century housewife. He complains about the meat not being cooked to his liking, the plate being cold and the knife not being sharp enough like a typical early 20th century husband. Mrs. Hughes hates her life and regrets everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, everyone makes Edith feel bad about her date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_nigx43prIp1qkgh4go2_r2_250.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20124\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20124\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_nigx43prIp1qkgh4go2_r2_250.gif\" alt=\"jan brady gif marcia\" width=\"245\" height=\"285\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Mrs. Hughes tells Patmore and Daisy all about how Carson is an entitled, sexist picky-eater who probably is one of those people who claim cilantro tastes like soap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sergeant comes in because it's been more than an hour since he's bugged everyone. Baxter leaves with him as if she's walking to her own death. Molesley fumbles along because the \u003cem>Downton\u003c/em> writers are trying to turn them into Bates and Anna version 2.0. Return to sender. The original version is more than enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhere on the grounds, Branson and Mary talk about her new boy toy. \"I don't mean to sound snobbish, but I won't marry down.\" A totally reasonable thing to say to the former pauper who married into your sister's wealth. Someone forgot to take their chill pill this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the village, Denker takes a break from blackmailing Spratt to intimidate Dr. Clarkson for switching hospital merger teams. Is it just me or does Denker's wig deserve its own SAG Award?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a courtroom somewhere, Baxter tells Molesley she doesn't have to testify after all because criminal dude changed his plea. So the whole point of this anti-climactic storyline was for us to witness Molesley follow Baxter around and help her put on her coat so that when they get together in the end we won't be like \u003cem>That was undeserved! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the farm, Daisy and co. are all unpacking her father-in-law's things and no one thinks about the fact that the only reason this place is vacant is because of a child abduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary and Branson stop by to tell Daisy's father-in-law that he's old and how they're concerned he won't be able to take care of the pigs. Andy randomly lies about how he and Mr. Mason have made an arrangement for Andy's young limbs to counterbalance Mr. Mason's feeble ones. Everyone's like \u003cem>Ok cool.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, Edith is on her date. They talk about how his boss is not married and likes to spend all his time in Tangier painting portraits of young men. Ummm, I think we found a boyfriend for Thomas! You had your chance, Andy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edith makes a sexy (for Edith) proposition: \"Come to my flat for a drink, I'll show it to you.\" Her date replies: \"What a racy plan.\" He seems like he would be a really good texter and emoji user. I hope he doesn't have any plans to hang out in Germany anytime soon. #RIPMarigoldsDad\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the middle of nowhere, Branson and Mary watch her new dude race cars. Branson gives her a hard time for not enjoying the speed and spectacle. Uh, did he forget that this is triggering because her last husband died while driving too fast?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, Edith interviews a woman who was born in 1892 like herself. They commiserate over being Victorian babies who grew up into modern women. New bestie alert (since it doesn't seem like Virginia Woolf is going to let Edith join the Bloomsbury clique)!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the farm, Mr. Mason wants Daisy to come live with him. Seems kind of creepy, but she'll probably do it. Mr. Mason looks at Daisy and then Andy in a way that makes me worry the\u003cem> Downton\u003c/em> writers are going to put these two together. I should start doing eye exercises now, just in case, so that I can eye roll as hard as I want when the time comes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Cora and Robert are baby sitting. Baby Sybbie says something problematic about \"red Indians.\" Kids say the darnedest things, don't they? Robert's side pain is back and he has to sit down. Will the Grim Reaper's scythe be more sharpened than Carson's dinner knife?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Dowager's house, she receives a tattle-tale letter from Dr. Clarkson about Denker, who is fired on the spot. Spratt's lucky day. Her going away party is going to be so boozy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a pub (!), Mary throws a few back. Her new boy brings up Evelyn Napier (former suitor -- until Mary told him he was boring -- and bestie of the Turk who died in Mary's bed). They make plans to have dinner with him soon, which won't be awkward at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the servants' hall, Andy and Thomas have the most boring conversation about pigs and books about pigs. Oscar Wilde would be so disappointed. All the words in the world and they use these.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Edith's single lady flat, she and her date drink fancy cocktails. Her forehead is wearing jewelry. She explains that she's over Downton and dawdling in Mary's wake and wants to be a hipster in London forevermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her date is a good listener. He also knows how to pick the right cafes for dinner so Edith green-lights a make out session before they head out. Unlike Mary, Edith tells her date that she doesn't care about his whole I-don't-have-money-and-work-for-a-living thing. Mazel tov, you crazy 1892 babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Downton kitchen, Daisy is apparently jealous that Mr. Mason is making new friends because she hasn't been crazy enough this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson walks in on Daisy, Patmore and Mrs. Hughes chatting and asks Patmore: \"I wonder if you might go through the cooking of [dinner] with Mrs Hughes. It's been a while since she's played with her patty pans, and she's got some catching-up to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_mfvo0utjuk1r6wo6vo1_500.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20128\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20128\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_mfvo0utjuk1r6wo6vo1_500.gif\" alt=\"oh hell no gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Hughes, this is why annulments are a thing. Time to drop this sexist dud and go back to your blissful celibacy immediately!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Dowager's, Denker is complaining about being fired. Spratt wins me over for the first time with this response: \"How did it happen? Were you drunk?\" Boom! But he's not done!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Denker:\u003c/strong> Am I to blame if I have a very \u003cem>passionate\u003c/em> nature?\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Spratt:\u003c/strong> Any more of that talk and I won't be able to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Go in, Spratt, go in!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Cora and Robert's room, they both take turns complaining about how annoying this Health Minister dinner is going to be. Then Robert complains about his side pain again, but refuses to skip the meal. Is he going to croak at the dinner table? Is that the only thing that will shut up this dumb hospital debate once and for all? If so, so be it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Thomas hears a crash and investigates. Andy threw a book because he's dyslexic. So his big secret isn't that he's gay, but that he can't read??? Seriously?!?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/teresa-table-flip.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20129\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20129\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/teresa-table-flip.gif\" alt=\"teresa-table-flip\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas promises to help him learn how to read and Andy apologizes for being super homophobic these past few months. Then, Thomas wins an award for Most Melancholic Smile Ever to Grace Lips. And I win an award for Best Continuation of a Recap Despite Wanting to Never Watch \u003cem>Downton\u003c/em> Again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Dowager's, Denker has decided to (shocker!) blackmail Spratt into convincing the Dowager to unfire her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, Bates and Anna gossip about Mary's love life. Then, Bates says he wishes everyone was as happy as he is. So he means he wishes everyone would skulk in the shadows, grumble sinister things and continuously get away with murder?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spratt got Denker her job back so we can put this whole blackmailing/bullying thing to bed, right? Not so much:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Spratt:\u003c/strong> Oh, and Miss Denker, I don't want to hear another mention of my unfortunate nephew.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Denker:\u003c/strong> Oh, well, that rather depends.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Spratt:\u003c/strong> On what?\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Denker:\u003c/strong> On whether or not I need to mention him again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This show is exhausting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the rich people hangout room, the Dowager arrives just in time to witness Robert have more side pain. The contractions are getting closer and closer together! Sybil's ghost's revenge for messing up her delivery and killing her in the process?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dowager has Carson change the seat assignments for dinner. Robert warns that she's switched to \"a very junior seat.\" The Dowager's reply is in French -- \"Il faut reculer pour mieux sauter\" -- but fear not; I have a French minor (*cough*and access to Google Translate*cough*) and can tell you that it means: \"You must step back to jump further.\" Let the games begin!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Health Minister arrives and everyone is trying to grab him. He totally dyes his mustache.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Daisy criticizes the Minister's lack of support for unions and Carson congratulates him for it. Can someone explain to me why the Downton fandom likes Carson so much? His opinions are terrible and he's not funny or charming or fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, all the old people fight over the hospital and the Health Minister is turned way off. Robert puts an end to the fighting by grabbing his side, standing up AND SPEWING BLOOD ALL OVER THE TABLE AND EVERYONE AND COLLAPSING AND VOMITING ON THE CARPET.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, I thought he was going to die, but damn! Color me shocked. Also color me red 'cause I think some of his spewed blood went through the screen into my gaping face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once I write \u003cem>Downton\u003c/em> off as a predictable bore, something like this happens! It reminds me of when \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em> featured a lawn mower amputation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/01-lawnmower.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20131\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20131\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/01-lawnmower.gif\" alt=\"mad men lawnmower gif\" width=\"437\" height=\"246\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare and contrast:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/downton-abbey-graphic-bloody-robert.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20146\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20146\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/downton-abbey-graphic-bloody-robert.gif\" alt=\"downton-abbey-graphic-bloody-robert\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I feel kind of bad because I think all the mean things I've written about Robert (albeit valid complaints) may have contributed to him getting an ulcer and that ulcer blowing up all over Cora. Did I do thaaat? (in Urkel voice).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, Robert is not doing well. He keeps puking up blood. He chokes out a proclamation of love for Cora while everyone screams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the servants are freaking out too. Carson tells the maids to get coats for Cora and Mary. \"Don't forget Lady Edith.\" Even in times of crisis, the writers can't help but crap all over poor Jan Brady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_nib4rjOEKT1r6k6v0o1_400.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20132\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20132\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_nib4rjOEKT1r6k6v0o1_400.gif\" alt=\"jan ignore brady gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"228\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, the Health Minister tells Cora: \u003cem>Ummm, I think I'm gonna go... \u003c/em>Then Cora and the Dowager argue over the hospital some more because this seems like a good time for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dowager brings up the secret of Marigold and Mary overhears and realizes \u003cem>Wait a second...Edith's 9 month vacation and the random mute baby that hangs out with my son all day just might have something to do with each other! \u003c/em>By George, I think she's got it! (Took her long enough).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medics arrive and cart dazed, confused and blood-soaked Robert off. Everyone follows...except for Branson who is straight up chilling and doesn't seem to be bothered one bit as he leisurely gossips with the Health Minister. Looks like I'm not the only one who holds a grudge against Robert for killing Sybil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some time later, the servants are all hanging out downstairs waiting for news. Andy is not reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson gets a phone call and delivers the news: Robert had surgery and is going to be fine. Yay, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Mary and Edith get back from the hospital. They're finally alone and no one is around to stop them from finally having a duel once and for all, but enough blood has been shed this evening. Plus, Mary's too weirded out by Edith being someone's mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Edith goes to bed, Branson rolls up wearing a casual robe because he's been kicking back with zero worries since Robert spewed his insides all over the mansion. Mary tells him that they should take over all control from her dad so he doesn't worry and get another ulcer. Branson rightfully proclaims this The Age of Queen Mary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_myzjm4NVyZ1s5lf2ro1_500.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20137\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/tumblr_myzjm4NVyZ1s5lf2ro1_500.gif\" alt=\"beyonce bow down gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"246\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And scene!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After every episode, it's only right to reward characters who've impressed and diss the ones that haven't, so here goes:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> Carson: \u003c/strong>Make your own F-ing dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Mary: \u003c/strong>She was very chill about hanging out at a dirty pub. Also, she wore a tie for much of this episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>BRONZE: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Thomas: \u003c/strong>So sorry Andy's dyslexic instead of gay. Classy move teaching him how to read anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>SILVER: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Cora:\u003c/strong> She handled having blood puked into her face pretty well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>GOLD:\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>Robert's Exploding Ulcer:\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>It did the impossible: revived this lackluster final season and almost killed one of my least faves. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“So wait a sec,”\u003c/strong> my lunchtime companion asked me. “William Shatner is actually \u003cem>calling your house\u003c/em> tomorrow?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s true,” I said. “What should I ask him?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a December afternoon, and my friend burst into laughter. Not because I was interviewing William Shatner the next day—she knows I’ve interviewed hundreds of people from all walks of life—but because of something about the man himself. She threw her head back, held her arms up, and said, as if it were the only question anyone would want William Shatner to answer: “I’d just want to know when he realized that the joke’s on him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sounds harsh. I knew what she meant, though. You know what she meant. We all know what she meant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11276538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 606px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11276538\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/18332_show_landscape_large_01.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from William Shatner's one-man show, 'Shatner's World.'\" width=\"606\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/18332_show_landscape_large_01.jpg 606w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/18332_show_landscape_large_01-400x263.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from William Shatner’s one-man show, ‘Shatner’s World.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy William Shatner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The obvious reality\u003c/strong> is that William Shatner, now 84, has made a career of being “William Shatner.” He’s no longer a single person; he is himself, and also his persona. This is true of any celebrity in varying degrees, from David Bowie’s shapeshifting identities to every single carefully constructed moment in Kim Kardashian’s day, but Shatner’s case is particularly acute. Some people would call Shatner a caricature of himself, but I can’t go that far. Not until I can ask about it, at least. How do you ask someone point-blank if they’re a caricature of themselves?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, five minutes before Shatner is about to call my house, I decide that’s exactly what I’ll do. I turn it over in my mind for a while. Then the phone rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hello Gabe!” Shatner says, deftly using my first name. (He \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-living/ci_29426779/william-shatner-beams-shatners-world-into-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">does this\u003c/a>.) “What a pleasure to speak with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I start with the basics. The whole reason Shatner’s doing this interview is \u003cem>Shatner’s World\u003c/em>, his one-man show that’s coming to the Warfield Theater in San Francisco (Saturday, Jan. 30; $39.50–$180; \u003ca href=\"http://www.thewarfieldtheatre.com/events/detail/280113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">details here\u003c/a>). I ask how hard it is to fit everything he’s done in his life and career into a two-hour show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me sort of straighten that out a little bit,” he says. “The one-man show, rather than being about my career or anything like that, is about the affirmation of life. Saying yes to life. Saying yes to all the wonderful things that life has, and even if they’re not wonderful, it’s part of living. So grief, and hatred, and love, and passion, those are all part of the skein of humanity, and we’re here for a very short time, and we don’t know what’s on either end. So you’d better appreciate what’s going on here by living in the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I quickly realize that this is not going to be an ordinary interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11277358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11277358\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/ShatnerNimoyDragonCon.jpg\" alt=\"William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy at Dragon Con, 2009.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/ShatnerNimoyDragonCon.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/ShatnerNimoyDragonCon-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/ShatnerNimoyDragonCon-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy at Dragon Con, 2009. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The first thing I learn\u003c/strong> is that Shatner wants to be a rapper. Or a heavy metal singer. He’s recorded a handful of albums, spanning his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3uVARNhmM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dramatic rendering of “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”\u003c/a> in the 1960s to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">singular version of Pulp’s “Common People”\u003c/a> in the aughts, and when I ask if he keeps up with new music he recalls that it took a while to get accustomed to rock ‘n’ roll. “Then I began, years later, to \u003cem>perform\u003c/em> rock ‘n’ roll,” he says, “and I realized it’s all about passion! It’s all about energy! It’s all about excitement! I fell in love with it. So the music today, the metallic rock, and the rapping, I… don’t quite get. But having learned from rock ‘n’ roll, I realize there’s \u003cem>something\u003c/em> going on here that I don’t quite understand, that I do want to understand, and that I do want to be able to do before it’s all over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Before it’s all over\u003c/em>. The words ring with mortality. I bring up Leonard Nimoy, and Shatner doesn’t beat around the bush: “The grieving process has been very hard,” he says. He likens Nimoy’s death last year to the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1999/aug/11/local/me-64692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">death of his third wife\u003c/a>, Nerine, whom he married with Nimoy as his best man. As he’s on the phone with me, he says, he’s resting his hand on a photograph of his recently deceased dog, another hard loss. “But with Leonard,” he says, “we were so close, and so attuned to each other, and shared so many things that only \u003cem>we\u003c/em> went through. He was always the person I could say, ‘Remember when?…’ to. He could remind me of things we’d done that I’d completely forgotten. And now I don’t have that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the Shatner that I know from \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBNL9xx3Ie0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">television commercials\u003c/a>. It’s not the Shatner that \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nttXA8jYwmU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">people call\u003c/a> “the king of overacting for no apparent reason.” And yet he’s still doing it all—the pauses, the inflections, the whole schtick. But I’m starting to think it isn’t a schtick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11277356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11277356\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/SHatnerKirk.jpg\" alt=\"William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk on 'Star Trek.'\" width=\"600\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/SHatnerKirk.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/SHatnerKirk-400x513.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/SHatnerKirk-468x600.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk on ‘Star Trek.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So I just ask it.\u003c/strong> As someone whose reputation certainly precedes him, who people want to be “on” all the time, how does it feel to be William Shatner, the icon, someone who’s in constant demand to portray a Shatner-esque version of himself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what you mean,” he says, as I quietly exhale in relief, “and I’m trying to do less of that. I’m at a point now where I’m trying to strip away the layers that some people call ‘Shatner-esque’—I don’t know what they mean by that term—and to offer a pure version of myself. That’s the most honest thing I can do. I’m trying to do less of everything, in fact. To own less of everything, to be less of everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds very zen, I say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s funny you ask that,” he says, “because yes, I do feel like I’m entering that phase, where that’s important. The ability to be one with something. I think of it often, as a horseman, and how in riding a horse, you’re really becoming one with the horse, united in your purpose and destination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about regrets? Does he have any regrets? His answer, again, is pure zen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m at a point now where any regrets—if you’re talking about missteps, or mistakes—anything like that has made me who I am. And I’m at a very good place in my life, and at my age, too, so I wouldn’t go back and do anything again, no. If there’s anything I regret or feel bad about, it’s when I’ve learned later that I’ve hurt someone, often inadvertently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, he’s doing the thing. The Shatner thing. There’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxTxX35aqZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2004 interview\u003c/a> with Shatner where an audience member begins his question by saying, “Recently you seem to have taken to a good deal of self-parody”—and Shatner cuts him off, saying, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxTxX35aqZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No, that’s real, actually\u003c/a>.” It gets a laugh. But I don’t think he was joking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See—Shatner’s been Shatner for so long now that he and his Shatner-esque self are one. And as he talks to me, I start to realize how terrible this must be for him. Here he is on the phone spilling his heart about the death of his best friend and his life’s regrets and his quest to offer a pure version of himself, and just because his timbre is rising and falling and he’s making those dramatic pauses, the general public’s knee-jerk reaction is: \u003cem>Oh, that wacky Priceline negotiator, so overly dramatic, always trying to go where no man has gone before.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11276542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11276542\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/William-Shatner-big.jpg\" alt='William Shatner: \"I know nothing.\"' width=\"1100\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/William-Shatner-big.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/William-Shatner-big-400x240.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/William-Shatner-big-800x480.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/William-Shatner-big-768x461.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/William-Shatner-big-960x576.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Shatner: “I know nothing.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hence, take with you,\u003c/strong> if you will, the idea that William Shatner is a man trapped in the world’s perception of him. And take with you, if you will, his closing words at face value, when I remind him that many fans have learned life lessons from Captain Kirk and \u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em>, and ask what his own biggest life lesson has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pauses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gabe,” he says, in low, measured tones, “the lesson is this: I… know… \u003cem>nothing\u003c/em>. You know nothing. We all know nothing. But we’re all on this Earth together, and just as I am here talking to you today, all of us have a core being within us, guiding us in life. And we must follow it. It will never lead us astray.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thank him for his time, we exchange goodbyes, and I hang up the receiver. I feel dazed. I feel enlightened. More than anything, I have a feeling that William Shatner, rather than a caricature of himself, is actually as real as it gets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as his most famous character \u003ca href=\"http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/23.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">once said\u003c/a>, sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>William Shatner performs ‘Shatner’s World’ on Saturday, Jan. 30, at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"http://www.thewarfieldtheatre.com/events/detail/280113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“So wait a sec,”\u003c/strong> my lunchtime companion asked me. “William Shatner is actually \u003cem>calling your house\u003c/em> tomorrow?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s true,” I said. “What should I ask him?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a December afternoon, and my friend burst into laughter. Not because I was interviewing William Shatner the next day—she knows I’ve interviewed hundreds of people from all walks of life—but because of something about the man himself. She threw her head back, held her arms up, and said, as if it were the only question anyone would want William Shatner to answer: “I’d just want to know when he realized that the joke’s on him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sounds harsh. I knew what she meant, though. You know what she meant. We all know what she meant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11276538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 606px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11276538\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/18332_show_landscape_large_01.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from William Shatner's one-man show, 'Shatner's World.'\" width=\"606\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/18332_show_landscape_large_01.jpg 606w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/18332_show_landscape_large_01-400x263.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from William Shatner’s one-man show, ‘Shatner’s World.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy William Shatner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The obvious reality\u003c/strong> is that William Shatner, now 84, has made a career of being “William Shatner.” He’s no longer a single person; he is himself, and also his persona. This is true of any celebrity in varying degrees, from David Bowie’s shapeshifting identities to every single carefully constructed moment in Kim Kardashian’s day, but Shatner’s case is particularly acute. Some people would call Shatner a caricature of himself, but I can’t go that far. Not until I can ask about it, at least. How do you ask someone point-blank if they’re a caricature of themselves?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, five minutes before Shatner is about to call my house, I decide that’s exactly what I’ll do. I turn it over in my mind for a while. Then the phone rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hello Gabe!” Shatner says, deftly using my first name. (He \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-living/ci_29426779/william-shatner-beams-shatners-world-into-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">does this\u003c/a>.) “What a pleasure to speak with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I start with the basics. The whole reason Shatner’s doing this interview is \u003cem>Shatner’s World\u003c/em>, his one-man show that’s coming to the Warfield Theater in San Francisco (Saturday, Jan. 30; $39.50–$180; \u003ca href=\"http://www.thewarfieldtheatre.com/events/detail/280113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">details here\u003c/a>). I ask how hard it is to fit everything he’s done in his life and career into a two-hour show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me sort of straighten that out a little bit,” he says. “The one-man show, rather than being about my career or anything like that, is about the affirmation of life. Saying yes to life. Saying yes to all the wonderful things that life has, and even if they’re not wonderful, it’s part of living. So grief, and hatred, and love, and passion, those are all part of the skein of humanity, and we’re here for a very short time, and we don’t know what’s on either end. So you’d better appreciate what’s going on here by living in the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I quickly realize that this is not going to be an ordinary interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11277358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11277358\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/ShatnerNimoyDragonCon.jpg\" alt=\"William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy at Dragon Con, 2009.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/ShatnerNimoyDragonCon.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/ShatnerNimoyDragonCon-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/ShatnerNimoyDragonCon-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy at Dragon Con, 2009. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The first thing I learn\u003c/strong> is that Shatner wants to be a rapper. Or a heavy metal singer. He’s recorded a handful of albums, spanning his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3uVARNhmM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dramatic rendering of “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”\u003c/a> in the 1960s to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">singular version of Pulp’s “Common People”\u003c/a> in the aughts, and when I ask if he keeps up with new music he recalls that it took a while to get accustomed to rock ‘n’ roll. “Then I began, years later, to \u003cem>perform\u003c/em> rock ‘n’ roll,” he says, “and I realized it’s all about passion! It’s all about energy! It’s all about excitement! I fell in love with it. So the music today, the metallic rock, and the rapping, I… don’t quite get. But having learned from rock ‘n’ roll, I realize there’s \u003cem>something\u003c/em> going on here that I don’t quite understand, that I do want to understand, and that I do want to be able to do before it’s all over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Before it’s all over\u003c/em>. The words ring with mortality. I bring up Leonard Nimoy, and Shatner doesn’t beat around the bush: “The grieving process has been very hard,” he says. He likens Nimoy’s death last year to the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1999/aug/11/local/me-64692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">death of his third wife\u003c/a>, Nerine, whom he married with Nimoy as his best man. As he’s on the phone with me, he says, he’s resting his hand on a photograph of his recently deceased dog, another hard loss. “But with Leonard,” he says, “we were so close, and so attuned to each other, and shared so many things that only \u003cem>we\u003c/em> went through. He was always the person I could say, ‘Remember when?…’ to. He could remind me of things we’d done that I’d completely forgotten. And now I don’t have that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the Shatner that I know from \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBNL9xx3Ie0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">television commercials\u003c/a>. It’s not the Shatner that \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nttXA8jYwmU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">people call\u003c/a> “the king of overacting for no apparent reason.” And yet he’s still doing it all—the pauses, the inflections, the whole schtick. But I’m starting to think it isn’t a schtick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11277356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11277356\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/SHatnerKirk.jpg\" alt=\"William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk on 'Star Trek.'\" width=\"600\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/SHatnerKirk.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/SHatnerKirk-400x513.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/SHatnerKirk-468x600.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk on ‘Star Trek.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So I just ask it.\u003c/strong> As someone whose reputation certainly precedes him, who people want to be “on” all the time, how does it feel to be William Shatner, the icon, someone who’s in constant demand to portray a Shatner-esque version of himself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what you mean,” he says, as I quietly exhale in relief, “and I’m trying to do less of that. I’m at a point now where I’m trying to strip away the layers that some people call ‘Shatner-esque’—I don’t know what they mean by that term—and to offer a pure version of myself. That’s the most honest thing I can do. I’m trying to do less of everything, in fact. To own less of everything, to be less of everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds very zen, I say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s funny you ask that,” he says, “because yes, I do feel like I’m entering that phase, where that’s important. The ability to be one with something. I think of it often, as a horseman, and how in riding a horse, you’re really becoming one with the horse, united in your purpose and destination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about regrets? Does he have any regrets? His answer, again, is pure zen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m at a point now where any regrets—if you’re talking about missteps, or mistakes—anything like that has made me who I am. And I’m at a very good place in my life, and at my age, too, so I wouldn’t go back and do anything again, no. If there’s anything I regret or feel bad about, it’s when I’ve learned later that I’ve hurt someone, often inadvertently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, he’s doing the thing. The Shatner thing. There’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxTxX35aqZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2004 interview\u003c/a> with Shatner where an audience member begins his question by saying, “Recently you seem to have taken to a good deal of self-parody”—and Shatner cuts him off, saying, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxTxX35aqZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No, that’s real, actually\u003c/a>.” It gets a laugh. But I don’t think he was joking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See—Shatner’s been Shatner for so long now that he and his Shatner-esque self are one. And as he talks to me, I start to realize how terrible this must be for him. Here he is on the phone spilling his heart about the death of his best friend and his life’s regrets and his quest to offer a pure version of himself, and just because his timbre is rising and falling and he’s making those dramatic pauses, the general public’s knee-jerk reaction is: \u003cem>Oh, that wacky Priceline negotiator, so overly dramatic, always trying to go where no man has gone before.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11276542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11276542\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/William-Shatner-big.jpg\" alt='William Shatner: \"I know nothing.\"' width=\"1100\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/William-Shatner-big.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/William-Shatner-big-400x240.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/William-Shatner-big-800x480.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/William-Shatner-big-768x461.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/William-Shatner-big-960x576.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Shatner: “I know nothing.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hence, take with you,\u003c/strong> if you will, the idea that William Shatner is a man trapped in the world’s perception of him. And take with you, if you will, his closing words at face value, when I remind him that many fans have learned life lessons from Captain Kirk and \u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em>, and ask what his own biggest life lesson has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pauses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gabe,” he says, in low, measured tones, “the lesson is this: I… know… \u003cem>nothing\u003c/em>. You know nothing. We all know nothing. But we’re all on this Earth together, and just as I am here talking to you today, all of us have a core being within us, guiding us in life. And we must follow it. It will never lead us astray.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thank him for his time, we exchange goodbyes, and I hang up the receiver. I feel dazed. I feel enlightened. More than anything, I have a feeling that William Shatner, rather than a caricature of himself, is actually as real as it gets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as his most famous character \u003ca href=\"http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/23.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">once said\u003c/a>, sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It's been a week since \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/downton-abbey-season-6-episode-3-recap-chapel-of-love-wedding\" target=\"_blank\">the Carsons got Miss Colombia'd\u003c/a> at their own wedding reception by the return of prodigal son Branson and his cute offspring. Is that incident the new thing Mrs. Hughes will spend all her time complaining about? Did she and Mr. Carson finally get it on? Will baby Sybbie and her cousins get a spin-off show? Will Thomas finally get to make out with someone? All (or none) of these questions will be answered on tonight's episode! Let's do this!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show opens with Branson gazing upon Downton's ridiculously expansive grounds. He's basically the Powerball winner of 1925. What dumb luck!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back indoors, Branson tells the family about how much America sucks. He also is concerned he stole the Carsons' thunder. Uh, ya think?! Robert, always the voice of un-reason, is like \u003cem>Oh, whatever, you made the wedding less boring. I'm sure they loved it.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because it's been approximately 22 seconds since Mary and Edith got into a fight, Edith brings up the fact that Mary will probably have to give up being a feminist ball-busting Agent, now that Branson is back. Branson is like, \u003cem>I'm still jet lagged, can we not? \u003c/em>Mary makes a mental note to sharpen her switchblade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gang talks about how lame the Carsons' honeymoon destination is (because poor people hang out there) before changing the topic to Aunt Rosamund, who's coming to town to meddle in the hospital drama. Get ready for some geriatric fireworks!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An aside: Cora never eats breakfast with her family. Should we be concerned? Eating disorder? Is she the one who takes care of the kids off screen? Is she keeping watch over her coats to make sure no servants touch them with their grimy little fingers? Or does she just hate everyone too much to sit next to them at this point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the Sergeant is looking for Ms. Baxter. Seriously, why is everyone in this house not better at covering up their crimes? Anna and Bates are excited it's not them for once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas is annoyed at Mrs. Patmore for receiving the visitor 'cause that's kind of his gig. Mr. Carson is still off naked somewhere with Mrs. Hughes so Patmore steps in as Thomas' resident bully. \u003cem>You're totally going to get fired, nanny nanny boo boo! \u003c/em>Thomas needs an \"It Gets Better\" campaign so badly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Cora is drinking tea in bed (so maybe she \u003cem>is\u003c/em> anorexic, but probably just lazy). She's complaining to Baxter about how the Dowager Countess is bringing some friend as backup for their upcoming brawl at dinner. Hey, life could be worse, Cora; Baxter could ask to borrow something. We know how you feel about that. But anyway, still all this hot and bother over this dumb hospital stuff?? Just merge! Or don't! Who cares!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, Branson tells Mary he's a capitalist now and wants his life to be more than just Downton. Um, okay, then why did you move back? Mary is supportive with a single caveat: no more Miss Buntings (the \u003ca href=\"http://45.media.tumblr.com/26db7deea9169596d334eaaf78672b02/tumblr_nhpo74A0Zk1rjtbk7o4_500.gif\" target=\"_blank\">annoying, self-righteous teacher\u003c/a> from last season, if you don't remember). Here, here!!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the Sergeant spills the latest criminal intrigue: he wants Baxter to testify against a purported \"handsome devil\" who makes women steal for him and then take the fall, while he walks free. He's the reason Baxter was in jail that one time. Baxter is super spooked and doesn't want to get involved. Molesley throws out a platitude: \"All that's needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.\" Baxter shoots him a withering \u003cem>You're so bloody simple!\u003c/em> look and storms out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Cora is annoyed because the Dowager's plus one wants to bring a plus one. It's a man so I bet you it's a new love interest for Mary because this show is not progressive enough to leave her as a badass single woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mary's room, she and Anna talk about some new maids who aren't as cool as past maids. Then, talk turns to how Anna is thickening up with pregnancy. Bates assumes she's just fat because she likes pie. Then, Bates bursts in and completely ruins the vibe, which is what he does best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, the Dowager and her friend talk about the hospital and I stare off into space while humming to myself until the scene is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Thomas is in charge and everyone has to do that annoying stand-up-really-suddenly-and-scrape-the-chair-against-the-floor thing in deference. Thomas off-handedly mentions something about properties on the estate and Daisy starts droning on about how excited she is that her father-in-law is getting the Drews' farm. When someone finally breaks it to her that she's been hallucinating this whole time, she gets very angry and clutches a water pitcher really hard. And because no scene with Thomas is complete without cute Andy spurning his advances, that happens too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a road surrounded by sheep, Edith is driving (yes! driving!) her aunt Rosamund. The car has a huge steering wheel. Rosamund tells Edith about this funky college for clever, but poor girls. She's a trustee and thinks Edith should be one too because there's a hot dude who works there and he's around Edith's age. First the newspaper helper and now this guy? When it rains, it pours! Get it, Edith!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the house, Molesley stops Cora on the stairs to talk about Baxter. Has he not gotten the memo? Cora is NOT IN THE MOOD to hear servant sob stories this season or let anyone borrow or touch her things, geez!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Daisy tries to murder potatoes with a spoon and then rants about how let down she is that Cora lied to her. Mrs. Patmore brings things back to reality and emphasizes that Daisy fabricated this whole thing and is maybe addicted to psychedelic shrooms or something? Daisy continues to murder the innocent potatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, the visitors arrive and are announced. Mary is shocked to find that the Dowager's plus one's plus one is that sexy guy she went hunting with during last season's finale. Didn't I tell you?? They're totally going to get married because anything else wouldn't be predictable enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Branson talks to Mary's future husband about cars and doesn't realize that this is an A and B conversation and he should C his way out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the fireplace, the Dowager grills her friend about her nephew's prospects. 40 men would have to die before he becomes an Earl. Ouch. Too bad the Titanic is already underwater; could've treated all 40 of them to a cruise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert calls his mom and her friend out for being snobs. Glass houses, dude, glass houses. Then the Dowager puts her son in his place and wins my heart for the 7000th time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> No one has sharper eyes than a loving son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Dowager:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> You read that somewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Robert:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> Why do you never think I can make anything up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because you suck at business, aren't very bright and helped kill Sybil. That's why!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Anna is having a contraction or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dining room, the old people fight over the usual, while Mary becomes the first person to ever flirt using the words \"guinea pigs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After dinner, it's Mary's future husband's turn to flirt. \"Telephone me. We'll have lunch or a drink.........or something.\" Mmmhmmmmm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/732978471.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20013\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20013\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/732978471.gif\" alt=\"oprah mmhm gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few yards away, Cora and some others discuss how embarrassing all the fuss over the hospital is. This is true, but what's even more embarrassing is that the\u003cem> Downton\u003c/em> writers are wasting the show's final episodes on such a dull storyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After everyone leaves, Robert clutches his side. This happened in the last episode, but I didn't mention it because I don't care about Robert. But yeah, I guess he's going to die. We all know dogs go to heaven, so Isis is accounted for. Will Robert be reunited with her or travel somewhere a bit warmer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, Baxter and Thomas are both having existential crises like they're sophomore English majors high for the first time. Thomas wishes he was popular and straight like Baxter. Baxter wishes she was like Thomas (minus the gay part).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't care what people say, while I tremble at the mere idea of public ridicule.\" Scratch \"blogger\" from the list of pursuits Baxter might entertain after Robert dies and the family sells Downton. Thomas explains that he actually does care what people say and walks off like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/j6ZBj.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20005\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20005\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/j6ZBj.gif\" alt=\"george michael walk gif\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, the Sergeant is back to convince Baxter to testify. She's like, \u003cem>Pass!\u003c/em> Then he guilt trips her by bringing up other victims who are now prostitutes or dead. Baxter changes her tune to \u003cem>Ugh, fiiiine.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The treasurer of the funky girls school arrives at Downton with his wife (sorry, Edith), who happens to be Gwen, a maid from season 1! She greets her former bestie Anna, but snubs Thomas (bad move).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that she has money, she's trying to downplay her time as a maid by not mentioning it at all. The rich people assemble to grill Gwen about who she is and why she came up with the school idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Gwen:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> You see, I never had any higher education and so...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Mary:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> Who did? All we were taught was French, prejudice and dance steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never thought I'd say this, but Mary is quickly becoming my favorite (again, sorry, Edith).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Daisy predicts that no one will recognize Gwen because \"they don't look us in the face.\" Mrs. Patmore rewards her right answer by calling her Karl Marx and ordering her to get back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Branson bonds with Gwen over marrying up and out of facelessness. Thomas looks on, full of dejected rage (which would totally be the name of his first fragrance, if he was a pop star).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sitting down to dinner, Gwen preaches about educating women. Everyone laughs about how they wish Carson was present to say sexist things. Thomas sees his chance: \"You recall Mr Carson, madam, surely?\" Gwen's cover is blown to bits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gwen explains how Sybil helped her get a secretary job. Everyone mournfully thinks about how good the show was before Robert killed Sybil with his bad decision making skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After dinner, Gwen goes downstairs to hang with her former coworkers. Daisy jumps out of nowhere in front of Branson and plays her favorite broken record: MY FATHER-IN-LAW! IT'S NOT FAIR! MY DEAD HUSBAND WHO I DIDN'T EVEN LIKE! RICH PEOPLE SUCK! Branson is like\u003cem> Um, woah. I'll see what I can do. Now please stop talking.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few paces away, Robert corners Thomas and makes him feel bad about being evil sometimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Mary talks to Anna about how remembering Sybil makes her reevaluate being a mean snob all the time. All the talk of Sybil brings back the ghost of pregnancy problems past and Anna has a crazy cramp. They decide to hightail it to the London doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, Bates asks 1001 questions, including \"So you're not hiding anything?\" Before he can question her about being in love with someone else, like he did last episode, Mary and Anna get in the car and drive off. Bates watches them go and thinks solemnly, \u003cem>Damn it, I have to kill again.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back inside, Bates continues being weird:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Andy:\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>What's Lady Mary's emergency?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Baxter:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> It's none of our business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Bates:\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>Very true, Miss Baxter. For once I agree with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Um, why the 'tude with teary-eyed puppy Baxter? What has she ever done?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Bates continues attacking people by asking \u003cem>Ugh, Daisy, what exactly is your problem?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daisy explains that she's \"had enough\" and will confront Cora for \"cheating\" her father-in-law out of the farm. She slams spoons next to place settings really hard so everyone knows she means business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Cora convinces everyone to give the farm to Daisy's father-in-law because it's what Sybil would do (also, this is the only way to get Daisy to stop stalking her).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, everyone tells Daisy what she's about to do is social suicide. Daisy doesn't give a you-know-what, yanks off her apron and storms upstairs to execute Cora or whatever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Cora runs into Daisy and is like \u003cem>Really, girl?\u003c/em> Daisy plays her broken record yet again. I'M UPSET! Yeah, we know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert interrupts and tells Daisy to make sure to tell her father-in-law the good news. Daisy makes this face and then runs downstairs:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/99603862.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20009\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20009\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/99603862.gif\" alt=\"miss jay shocked gif antm\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert comments on how weird Daisy is and then grabs his side again. One step closer to the grave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, the doctor announces that he prevented Anna's miscarriage. Mary celebrates by making plans to go on a date with her future husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Robert tells Thomas how excited he is that Carson is coming back to fire him. Maybe the pain in Robert's side is a side effect of whatever poison Thomas is slipping into his tea? When Robert keels over, Thomas will do a tap routine over his corpse, while singing \"He Had It Coming.\" Now\u003cem> that\u003c/em> would be a proper end to this series!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in London, Mary tells her future husband that she works, despite her ovaries. He doesn't set himself on fire and run around the room engulfed in flames so that's a plus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the farm that used to belong to Marigold's kidnapper, Daisy's father-in-law tells her how excited he is to know where he will \"lay his bones.\" Yay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Bates grills Anna, who has just returned. She finally tells him, \u003cem>Hey, stop brainstorming ways to kill me. I'm not cheating, just pregnant, silly! \u003c/em>Bates is moderately pleased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Carsons return and everyone applauds them for being brave enough to have sex with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, all the rich people plan to take a field trip to the servants' hall to welcome the newlyweds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Dowager:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> I haven't been into the kitchens for at least 20 years!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Isobel:\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>Have you got your passport?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isn't it fun when they're not talking about that boring hospital?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the Dowager is like \u003cem>Ew.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edith announces that she plans to hire a female co-editor for the magazine. Mary says something along the lines of \u003cem>Right on, sister!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Rosamund: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>That was nice of you, to praise Edith's plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Mary:\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>A monkey will type out the Bible if you leave it long enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, it's official now. Mary is my favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone complains about how annoying it is that they have to call Mrs. Hughes Mrs. Carson now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major foreshadowing moment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rosamund:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> Mama's slipped away. She was tired, so I told her to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Robert:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> Quite right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rosamund:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> I'm afraid she won't give up about the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Robert:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> I shan't think that at her funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rosamund:\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>Who says she won't be at yours?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>#sidepain!!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Carson announces that no one has to calls Mrs. Hughes Mrs. Carson. Everyone reacts like they just got out of jury duty for the rest of their lives. Nothing makes sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone is standing around having a very bridled version of fun. Except for Thomas, of course, who looks like this all by himself in a corner:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/giphy-5.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20010\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20010\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/giphy-5.gif\" alt=\"adele fake smile gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson heads to his old room to say goodbye to his single bed. We know how much Carson hates change (almost as much as he hates women's civil rights).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And scene!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After every episode, it's only right to reward characters who've impressed and diss the ones that haven't, so here goes:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> Bates: \u003c/strong>What are you good for? Absolutely nothing (but you're pretty good at bullying your wife).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Gwen:\u003c/strong> Good for you, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>BRONZE: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Thomas:\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>Kudos to him for his remarkable restraint that holds him back from killing those who are rude and merciless to him (everyone, but Mary).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>SILVER: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Sybil: \u003c/strong>Sure, she's dead, but her memory was strong enough to get Daisy's annoying father-in-law a farm, convince Mary to be nicer and set Gwen up with a pretty cush life. Way to go, Sybil's ghost!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>GOLD:\u003c/em> Mary: \u003c/strong>She saved Anna's baby, became the first person in history to turn the term \"guinea pigs\" into something sexy, lined up a pretty cute new husband, and was nice to Edith for no reason. And that Bible-typing monkey comment? Come on. The clear winner this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Previous Season 6 recaps:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/downton-abbey-season-6-episode-3-recap-chapel-of-love-wedding\">‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6 Episode 3 Recap: Chapel of Love\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/10/downton-abbey-season-6-episode-2-recap-all-that-she-wants-is-another-baby/\" target=\"_blank\">'Downton Abbey' Season 6 Episode 2: All That She Wants Is Another Baby\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/03/downton-abbey-season-6-premiere-recap-lets-talk-about-sex/\" target=\"_blank\">‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6 Premiere Recap: Let’s Talk About Sex\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An aside: Cora never eats breakfast with her family. Should we be concerned? Eating disorder? Is she the one who takes care of the kids off screen? Is she keeping watch over her coats to make sure no servants touch them with their grimy little fingers? Or does she just hate everyone too much to sit next to them at this point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the Sergeant is looking for Ms. Baxter. Seriously, why is everyone in this house not better at covering up their crimes? Anna and Bates are excited it's not them for once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas is annoyed at Mrs. Patmore for receiving the visitor 'cause that's kind of his gig. Mr. Carson is still off naked somewhere with Mrs. Hughes so Patmore steps in as Thomas' resident bully. \u003cem>You're totally going to get fired, nanny nanny boo boo! \u003c/em>Thomas needs an \"It Gets Better\" campaign so badly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Cora is drinking tea in bed (so maybe she \u003cem>is\u003c/em> anorexic, but probably just lazy). She's complaining to Baxter about how the Dowager Countess is bringing some friend as backup for their upcoming brawl at dinner. Hey, life could be worse, Cora; Baxter could ask to borrow something. We know how you feel about that. But anyway, still all this hot and bother over this dumb hospital stuff?? Just merge! Or don't! Who cares!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, Branson tells Mary he's a capitalist now and wants his life to be more than just Downton. Um, okay, then why did you move back? Mary is supportive with a single caveat: no more Miss Buntings (the \u003ca href=\"http://45.media.tumblr.com/26db7deea9169596d334eaaf78672b02/tumblr_nhpo74A0Zk1rjtbk7o4_500.gif\" target=\"_blank\">annoying, self-righteous teacher\u003c/a> from last season, if you don't remember). Here, here!!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the Sergeant spills the latest criminal intrigue: he wants Baxter to testify against a purported \"handsome devil\" who makes women steal for him and then take the fall, while he walks free. He's the reason Baxter was in jail that one time. Baxter is super spooked and doesn't want to get involved. Molesley throws out a platitude: \"All that's needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.\" Baxter shoots him a withering \u003cem>You're so bloody simple!\u003c/em> look and storms out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Cora is annoyed because the Dowager's plus one wants to bring a plus one. It's a man so I bet you it's a new love interest for Mary because this show is not progressive enough to leave her as a badass single woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mary's room, she and Anna talk about some new maids who aren't as cool as past maids. Then, talk turns to how Anna is thickening up with pregnancy. Bates assumes she's just fat because she likes pie. Then, Bates bursts in and completely ruins the vibe, which is what he does best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, the Dowager and her friend talk about the hospital and I stare off into space while humming to myself until the scene is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Thomas is in charge and everyone has to do that annoying stand-up-really-suddenly-and-scrape-the-chair-against-the-floor thing in deference. Thomas off-handedly mentions something about properties on the estate and Daisy starts droning on about how excited she is that her father-in-law is getting the Drews' farm. When someone finally breaks it to her that she's been hallucinating this whole time, she gets very angry and clutches a water pitcher really hard. And because no scene with Thomas is complete without cute Andy spurning his advances, that happens too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a road surrounded by sheep, Edith is driving (yes! driving!) her aunt Rosamund. The car has a huge steering wheel. Rosamund tells Edith about this funky college for clever, but poor girls. She's a trustee and thinks Edith should be one too because there's a hot dude who works there and he's around Edith's age. First the newspaper helper and now this guy? When it rains, it pours! Get it, Edith!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the house, Molesley stops Cora on the stairs to talk about Baxter. Has he not gotten the memo? Cora is NOT IN THE MOOD to hear servant sob stories this season or let anyone borrow or touch her things, geez!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Daisy tries to murder potatoes with a spoon and then rants about how let down she is that Cora lied to her. Mrs. Patmore brings things back to reality and emphasizes that Daisy fabricated this whole thing and is maybe addicted to psychedelic shrooms or something? Daisy continues to murder the innocent potatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, the visitors arrive and are announced. Mary is shocked to find that the Dowager's plus one's plus one is that sexy guy she went hunting with during last season's finale. Didn't I tell you?? They're totally going to get married because anything else wouldn't be predictable enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Branson talks to Mary's future husband about cars and doesn't realize that this is an A and B conversation and he should C his way out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the fireplace, the Dowager grills her friend about her nephew's prospects. 40 men would have to die before he becomes an Earl. Ouch. Too bad the Titanic is already underwater; could've treated all 40 of them to a cruise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert calls his mom and her friend out for being snobs. Glass houses, dude, glass houses. Then the Dowager puts her son in his place and wins my heart for the 7000th time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> No one has sharper eyes than a loving son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Dowager:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> You read that somewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Robert:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> Why do you never think I can make anything up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because you suck at business, aren't very bright and helped kill Sybil. That's why!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Anna is having a contraction or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dining room, the old people fight over the usual, while Mary becomes the first person to ever flirt using the words \"guinea pigs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After dinner, it's Mary's future husband's turn to flirt. \"Telephone me. We'll have lunch or a drink.........or something.\" Mmmhmmmmm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/732978471.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20013\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20013\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/732978471.gif\" alt=\"oprah mmhm gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few yards away, Cora and some others discuss how embarrassing all the fuss over the hospital is. This is true, but what's even more embarrassing is that the\u003cem> Downton\u003c/em> writers are wasting the show's final episodes on such a dull storyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After everyone leaves, Robert clutches his side. This happened in the last episode, but I didn't mention it because I don't care about Robert. But yeah, I guess he's going to die. We all know dogs go to heaven, so Isis is accounted for. Will Robert be reunited with her or travel somewhere a bit warmer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, Baxter and Thomas are both having existential crises like they're sophomore English majors high for the first time. Thomas wishes he was popular and straight like Baxter. Baxter wishes she was like Thomas (minus the gay part).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't care what people say, while I tremble at the mere idea of public ridicule.\" Scratch \"blogger\" from the list of pursuits Baxter might entertain after Robert dies and the family sells Downton. Thomas explains that he actually does care what people say and walks off like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/j6ZBj.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20005\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20005\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/j6ZBj.gif\" alt=\"george michael walk gif\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, the Sergeant is back to convince Baxter to testify. She's like, \u003cem>Pass!\u003c/em> Then he guilt trips her by bringing up other victims who are now prostitutes or dead. Baxter changes her tune to \u003cem>Ugh, fiiiine.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The treasurer of the funky girls school arrives at Downton with his wife (sorry, Edith), who happens to be Gwen, a maid from season 1! She greets her former bestie Anna, but snubs Thomas (bad move).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that she has money, she's trying to downplay her time as a maid by not mentioning it at all. The rich people assemble to grill Gwen about who she is and why she came up with the school idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Gwen:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> You see, I never had any higher education and so...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Mary:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> Who did? All we were taught was French, prejudice and dance steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never thought I'd say this, but Mary is quickly becoming my favorite (again, sorry, Edith).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Daisy predicts that no one will recognize Gwen because \"they don't look us in the face.\" Mrs. Patmore rewards her right answer by calling her Karl Marx and ordering her to get back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Branson bonds with Gwen over marrying up and out of facelessness. Thomas looks on, full of dejected rage (which would totally be the name of his first fragrance, if he was a pop star).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sitting down to dinner, Gwen preaches about educating women. Everyone laughs about how they wish Carson was present to say sexist things. Thomas sees his chance: \"You recall Mr Carson, madam, surely?\" Gwen's cover is blown to bits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gwen explains how Sybil helped her get a secretary job. Everyone mournfully thinks about how good the show was before Robert killed Sybil with his bad decision making skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After dinner, Gwen goes downstairs to hang with her former coworkers. Daisy jumps out of nowhere in front of Branson and plays her favorite broken record: MY FATHER-IN-LAW! IT'S NOT FAIR! MY DEAD HUSBAND WHO I DIDN'T EVEN LIKE! RICH PEOPLE SUCK! Branson is like\u003cem> Um, woah. I'll see what I can do. Now please stop talking.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few paces away, Robert corners Thomas and makes him feel bad about being evil sometimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Mary talks to Anna about how remembering Sybil makes her reevaluate being a mean snob all the time. All the talk of Sybil brings back the ghost of pregnancy problems past and Anna has a crazy cramp. They decide to hightail it to the London doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, Bates asks 1001 questions, including \"So you're not hiding anything?\" Before he can question her about being in love with someone else, like he did last episode, Mary and Anna get in the car and drive off. 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I knew there wasn’t enough imagination in the industry for me to be seen as a lead. In other words, if I wanted to star in a British drama like \u003cem>Luther\u003c/em>, then I’d have to go to a country like America. And the other thing was, because I never saw myself on TV, I stopped watching TV. Instead I decided to just go out and become TV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Elba will tell the audience that without going to the U.S., he would have remained the “best friend” and “cop sidekick,” adding:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“But when you don’t reflect the real world, too much talent gets trashed. Thrown on the scrapheap. Talent is everywhere, opportunity isn’t. And talent can’t reach opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Elba is not the first British actor of color to make these observations, late last year David Oyelowo, who starred as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/05/28/409718943/david-oyelowo-on-acting-his-royal-roots-and-the-one-role-he-wont-take\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin Luther King Jr. in \u003cem>Selma\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/28/roles-uk-black-minority-ethnic-actors-worse-than-ever-claims-david-oyelowo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told \u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/28/roles-uk-black-minority-ethnic-actors-worse-than-ever-claims-david-oyelowo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian\u003c/a> \u003c/em>he also felt “pushed out of the U.K. because of the glass ceiling” that prevented actors of color from landing lead roles in his home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“I could see that actors, my peers, those who had a similar trajectory to me were going on to do movies, to play leads. 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That Pavarotti of prickliness Paul Giamatti is Chuck Rhoades, a well-born U.S. Attorney with just enough conscience that he can’t completely enjoy his vaulting ambition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calculating Rhoades dreams of being governor, which will be easier if he takes the scalp of a financial high-flier. Enter Bobby “Axe” Axelrod, played by perma-slippery Damian Lewis, far different here than in \u003cem>Homeland\u003c/em>. He’s a hedge-fund maestro who presents himself as a regular guy, but is the kind of thug who remembers, and avenges, slights decades later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Rhoades worries about going after Axe, who’s popular because of his casual dress, blue-collar origins and canny post-9/11 donations. But when Axe courts bad publicity by deciding to buy a staggeringly expensive house, Rhoades thinks it safe to make his move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are complications. 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"content": "\u003cp>Did you cool down from all that hanky panky talk in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/03/downton-abbey-season-6-premiere-recap-lets-talk-about-sex/\" target=\"_blank\">last week's season premiere\u003c/a>? Yeah, me neither, but the show must go on!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stranger cycles towards the Abbey. He might just be the mailman. Or he's arrived to either blackmail Lady Mary for having sex or accuse Bates or Anna of killing some rando. If it's the latter, I quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Daisy runs around with a plate of butter being cute. Other less cute people also do stuff. Molesley irons the pages of a newspaper (think about this next time a Crawley boo-hoos over not having as much money as in the good ol' days).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Robert and his second and third favorite daughters (R.I.P. Sybil) gossip about Rose. Remember her? She dated a black jazz musician and married a Jewish dude from a broken home? The scandal! Well, she has a Hamptons house now and might be pregnant. Here's hoping Robert isn't in charge of medical decisions during her delivery (again, R.I.P. Sybil).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone downstairs wants to speak to the Agent of the estate. Mary, who has taken over those duties, says \"I want to be left to manage him. It's my job!\" Carson stops in his tracks and raises his eyebrows. He holds back from screaming: \"But you have ovaries!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert asks Carson about his wedding a.k.a. the day he and Mrs. Hughes start having all the sex. Carson shares that they've set a date, but are still looking for a place to hold the reception. Mary says, \u003cem>Here, duh!\u003c/em> Robert comes in for the assist and...fails miserably, as he almost always does. \"We can decorate the servants hall and make it look really special.\" This statement is the sequel to \"Let them eat cake.\" Off with his super rich, blinded-by-a-lifetime-of-privilege head!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary gets this and reprimands her embarrassing dad: \"I don't want to discuss it now in a rush. We'll have a proper conversation later.\" *cue a chorus of middle schoolers saying oooooo after a classmate is called to the principal's office*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did you notice that everyone completely ignored Edith's existence and the two things she said in this scene? You probably ignored her too! No wonder Cora didn't even bother showing up to this lame breakfast. These people don't appreciate a fine woman when she's sipping tea right in front of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Molesley brings up that time Daisy lost her sh*t on her father-in-law's new landlord and ensured his eviction. Daisy self-flogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Agent-seeker meets with Mary. She breaks her new role to him and he tries not to burn everything to the ground. They talk about pigs a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a walk outside, Mrs. Hughes incredulously repeats Robert's version of \"Let them eat cake\" to Carson. Have her reception in the servants hall? As if! She doesn't want to be a servant on her wedding day. Carson counters: \u003cem>But we'll still invite these rich people who don't actually value me at all, but whom I live to serve, right???\u003c/em> Mrs. Hughes gives him a side-eye and then this exchange takes place:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Mrs. Hughes:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\"Why? Did you think you would have to get married without Lady Mary to witness it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Carson:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\"She's an important figure in my life, Mrs. Hughes. I won't apologize.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one said marriage was easy, y'all!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at the Dowager's mansion, cousin Isobel, Robert, the doctor whose name I never remember, and the Countess sit around and argue some more about this hospital take-over. Robert says something glib about wanting to save lives. His mother hits back: \"If you can't say anything helpful, Robert, please be silent.\" Although a bit long, this should have been the title of the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cousin Isobel wants to get Cora involved because she knows Cora agrees with her side of things. I don't 100% understand what all this fuss is about and why it deserves a multi-episode arc, but I always side with the Dowager. Dear cousin Isobel, know your place. You just got here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, the newbie footman Andy talks about how he likes it there and wants to walk and explore more. Thomas offers to join because Andy is cute and Thomas hasn't gotten some in a while. Andy says something to the effect of \u003cem>no homo\u003c/em>. Mrs. Hughes agrees. Why is she so invested in keeping Thomas celibate? Just 'cause you have issues with your body and sex doesn't mean others can't get some. Let Thomas live!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moments later, Carson makes fun of the fact that Thomas might be laid off soon. I hope you're not a fan of Mrs. Hughes and Carson 'cause their wedding is shaping up to be a reprise of the wedding in \u003cem>Kill Bill\u003c/em>. \u003cstrong>13-year-old spoiler:\u003c/strong> It's bloody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhere in town, Molesley follows a bunch of kids and asks to talk to their teacher. He could definitely use more schooling. Let's hope that's what this is about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, some sexist is yelling at Edith on the phone again. She tells him to calm down. By now, we people of the future know this only makes matters worse, but it's 1925 and Edith doesn't know anything about conflict resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edith goes to complain to her family about how hated she is. Mary rolls her eyes. Like I said last week, these two need to just duel it out already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More talk about the boring hospital thing, which is thankfully interrupted by the children. Mary wants to take the kids on a field trip to see pigs at a local farm, which conveniently is the very farm where Edith kept Marigold hidden while she was pretending not to be post-partum depressed last year. Edith gets super anxious. Mary calls her a ninny. Same ol', same ol'.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Molesley finds Daisy and tells her about his visit with the town schoolmaster. He gives her old exams from previous years so she can be prepared to take one of her own. Daisy is like \u003cem>This is nice and all, but I'm pretty busy planning to meddle some more in my father-in-law's affairs. K thanks bye! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs in Mary's bedroom, Mary asks Anna why she's still a British lady reincarnation of Eeyore, despite her and her husband being acquitted. Anna brings up the time she had to go buy Mary a diaphragm (good times!) and then confides about her miscarriages. Mary feels bad and probably thinks something along the lines of: \u003cem>My maid has more problems than a math book.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In town, Isobel runs into her ex. He talks about how the locals need better health care and the hospital take-over will make things better. Like last week, he mentions how glad he is that they are allies on this issue. And, again, Isobel sings Taylor Swift's \"We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together.\" She then gets excited about battling the Dowager and predicts there will be \"wigs on the green.\" 2016 translation: \u003ca href=\"https://45.media.tumblr.com/9539c1e5a2c819760bcb1d72b458dcbe/tumblr_nu9jeoSHel1sar3c7o1_500.gif\" target=\"_blank\">wigs are about to be snatched\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the servants' quarters, Thomas offers to help cute newbie Andy wind the clocks and is spurned for the 908th time. It's really too bad \u003cem>He's Just Not That Into You\u003c/em> wasn't out back in 1925. Thomas could really use it right about now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the village farm, Mary is busy talking about pigs, while Mr. Drew and Cora are trying to speed things along before his crazy jealous wife a.k.a. Marigold's fake mom comes back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too late! His wife gets all mama bear with Marigold and Mr. Drew implores \"Let her go, Margie.\" She begrudgingly does and Cora gets Marigold the hell out of there. This goes down in history as the shortest and most polite hostage crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Thomas plans to go on a job interview nearby. He hopes there are cute boys there who will let him wind their clocks, if you know what I mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Mary tells Carson that, despite what her father stupidly said about making up the servants' hall for his wedding reception, it can be held in any of the upstairs rooms. Robert is sour about her fixing his faux pas and still has no clue why what he said was demeaning and offensive. Some things never change!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the shoe-polish room, where everything always happens, Anna is in the dark crying again. Bates tries to comfort her with trite passages he read in a greeting card once. He asks if she would consider adoption. Anna says she would, but that Bates is \"tribal\" and wants his own child. He's doesn't deny this and then continues to be entirely unhelpful: \"To me, we are one person. And that person can't have children.\" What poetry! I'm not sure who I'm more annoyed with: Bates or the writer who got paid to write that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, the sexist phone caller is now yelling at Edith IRL. She fires him on the spot. No, actually she just takes it 'cause her superpower is soaking in all forms of criticism and ire like a sponge and then crying it all out at night and sometimes even almost \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/01/05/downton-abbey-season-5-premiere-recap-lover-you-shouldnt-have-come-over/\" target=\"_blank\">burning down the house \u003c/a>while she's at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas shows up for his interview and any hopes for sexy clock-winding are quickly dashed because of an impressive gaydar. \"You're a delicate looking fella, aren't you?\" the homophobe interviewer asks, before bullying Thomas for not being married. Add this dude to the list of people Thomas will most likely murder soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Mary tells Anna she wants to help her with this whole no babies thing. OMG, is she going to find her a surrogate and help her pretend she was pregnant all along, \u003ca href=\"http://blackbag.gawker.com/did-beyonce-fake-her-pregnancy-1693597363\" target=\"_blank\">like Beyonce (allegedly) did\u003c/a> with Blue Ivy? Oh, they're just going to visit a doctor to see what's up. That works too, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna keeps refusing help, but Mary points out all the times Anna has helped her in a time of need: hiding \"that fearful Dutch thingamajig\" (we all must call contraceptives this from now on) and carrying the Turk's dead body out of her room. They have a good, long laugh thinking about how Mary killed a man with her vagina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It only takes 3.2 seconds for Anna to turn back into Eeyore. She mopes about how going to the doctor or even a potential operation probably won't work. The only way Mary avoids strangling her sadsack neck is to ask her if she'll tell Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna says she won't. \"He'd help too much.\" Translation: he would try killing someone again and this final season doesn't have enough running time to include a third instance of Bates maybe going to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Have y'all ever noticed that Bates is basically Lennie from \u003cem>Of Mice and Men\u003c/em>? Always meaning well, but accidentally hurting or killing things? That novel takes place in the 1930s, which could mean that this entire show is an origin story and Bates does something awful at Downton and must flee to California's Salinas Valley to assume a new identity. I wouldn't rule it out!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their bedroom, Cora and Robert talk about how Mrs. Drew wants to \"swallow [Marigold] whole.\" Cora asks about the possibility of making the Drews move 'cause she knows that, once Mrs. Drew finds a windowless white van, she'll be kidnapping Marigold tout de suite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Baxter encourages Daisy not to be angry with Cora for not being able to help Daisy's father-in-law. Daisy's A+ response: \"It's the system's fault! That's what makes me angry: the system! And she's part of it!\" Out of the mouth of immortal, ageless, partially educated babes! Revolution is nigh! Tom Branson would be so proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, Edith and her aunt drink booze out of tiny glasses and talk about fine dining, shopping and the joys of living alone. On that last note, Rosamund correctly points out: \"That's the danger of living alone. It can be very hard to give up.\" I'm so with her on this one. Nothing's better than coming home and doing whatever the hell you want without someone being there to judge you for eating raw cookie dough out of a bowl in your underwear while watching a marathon of \u003cem>The Great British Baking Show\u003c/em>. Oh, you don't do that? Uh, yeah, me neither. Anywaaay, how is super chill Rosamund related to her loser brother Robert? It boggles the mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs at Downton, Mrs. Hughes tells Carson she doesn't want to get married at Downton because it's not who they are. Carson, who's convinced himself that he's a part of the Crawley family, despite the whole waiting on them hand and foot for a lifetime thing, doesn't agree, but plans to decline the offer because happy wife, happy life or whatever people say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, Bates and Anna talk about her trip to London. Anna alludes to her secret gyno appointment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Bates:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> Well, try and put your feet up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Anna:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> Yes, I \u003cem>will\u003c/em> be \u003ca href=\"http://www.wanrooemed.com/UploadFiles/201311164042200778.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">putting my feet up\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This marks the first time a scene featuring these two has made me laugh. Well done, all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dining room, Cora mentions that she's meeting with the Dowager, the village doctor and Isobel about hospital bizness. Then we get a peek into what a happy marriage looks like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Robert:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> [referring to inviting Isobel] Is that wise?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Cora:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> At least she's an ally I can rely on, even if I can't rely on you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> I didn't tell you about the meeting bec...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Cora:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> [to Mary] \"What time's your train?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brrr, it's gonna be cold in the marital bed tonight!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family switches the topic over to Carson's wedding reception. Carson tries to get out of having it at Downton, but Lady Mary vows that the reception will be there if it's the last thing she does. Uh oh, Mrs. Hughes is going to be soooo pissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hospital, Cora admits she's on Team Give Up the Hospital. The Countess is desperate to change the tide with some manipulative psychology: \"Are you saying Dr. Clarkson is a bad doctor?\" Cora doesn't find this as amusing as I do and decides to leave. Isobel rubs salt in the wound on her way out: \"I'll come with you. We must give them time to gnash their teeth alone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the future kidnapper's farm, Robert tries to convince Mr. Drew to move away before his wife does something dumb. It doesn't work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Carson's office, Mrs. Hughes blows up when Carson tells her Lady Mary insists they have their reception upstairs. \"Heaven forfend we lowly folk should do anything to contradict the \u003cem>blessed\u003c/em> Lady Mary!\" Yeesh! This is getting ugly fast! Remember the forehead kisses, guys?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently not because Mrs. Hughes is still at it: \"We'll be doing it your way for the next 30 years, I know that well enough, but the wedding day is mine!\" Good grief, Mrs. Hughes has become such a drama queen since she's gotten engaged. First the whole I never want to have sex or be naked ever again thing and now this? Also, it's super sad that she's resigned to doing everything Carson's way for the next 30 years. Although I guess a dark silver lining is that, let's be real, neither of them have another 30 years left. (Hey, don't get mad at me for speaking truth; people lived shorter lives back then!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Baxter...you know what, I think you should just see it for yourself 'cause I'm too busy laughing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty/status/685933485920391169\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No.\" Ha ha ha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, sorry, where was I? Oh, yeah. Cora has a secret plan to help Daisy so she'll shut up about her father-in-law and the evil power structures that keep the poor in their place, while making the 1% richer. Bloody revolution has been averted...for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, Anna finds out she suffers from a rude-sounding condition called \"cervical incompetence.\" (Between this and preeclampsia, I've learned a whole lot about women's reproductive health, haven't you?) It's okay though 'cause the doctor can fix it with an out-patient operation done at her own house! How much do you wanna bet that she tries to have this operation done without Bates knowing and he happens to walk in on it and thinks something else is going on and Bates kills the doctor and maybe Anna too? I bet you 75 cents (I need quarters for laundry).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Bates knows something's up because Anna is acting \"bouncy\" instead of weeping in the shoe polish room like usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the village, there are a ton of farm animals in pens being judged. The whole gang is in attendance, including Mrs. Drew, who instantly locks eyes on Marigold. Amber alert in 3, 2, 1...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy is bowling nearby and Thomas insists on embarrassing himself further by first asking Andy to come with him to see Mary's pigs (declined) and then to help teach Andy how to bowl (double declined). Mrs. Patmore is there to say \u003cem>Dude, give it a rest. He's not gay!\u003c/em> Thomas still thinks he is. This better be going somewhere!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Drew stares at Marigold some more. Okay, I get it. You grew attached to the baby when you had her for a few months, but you have a boatload of kids already. Focus on them and leave this little heiress alone. I know you won't though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Hughes and Carson argue some more about this stupid reception. Just don't get married!!! Problem solved!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First prize for fattest pig or whatever goes to Lady Mary's swine! Everyone celebrates for exactly two seconds before they realize Marigold is missing! Didn't I tell y'all???\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone hyperventilates and runs around for a while, until they remember that, oh yeah, that obsessed, unhinged lady probably took her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gang heads to the Drew farm, where Mr. Drew finds his wife cradling and humming to Marigold. \"She was bored,\" she explains. \"They were paying her no attention, none at all!\" Okay, she's right about the last bit. These kids are such afterthoughts. But the crazy unravels further. \"Of course I brought her here. This is her home!\" Girl, please give it a rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Drew calmly begs her to hand over the child, the same way you talk to someone pointing a gun at your face. She eventually does and then dramatically watches him give Marigold back from a window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Drew tells Robert he will start looking for a new home (one close to a loony bin presumably). Robert relays the news to Edith and Cora and they're like \u003cem>Ugh, finally. Anyway, what's for dinner? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And scene!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After every episode, it's only right to reward characters who've impressed and diss the ones that haven't, so here goes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> Bates and Mrs. Drew: \u003c/strong>Both kid obsessed. How about they run away together? Mr. Drew and Anna will be sad at first, but will eventually find solace in each other. Mr. Drew will finally stop making that frowny face all the time and Anna will quit crying while surrounded by shoes. It's a win-win!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Anna:\u003c/strong> I forgot about all the gangster stuff she's done in the past. Buying contraceptives and moving dead bodies? That counts for something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>BRONZE: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Mr. Drew:\u003c/strong> It's a hard knock life when you can't stop your wife from kidnapping other people's children, but he does the best that he can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>SILVER: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Daisy:\u003c/strong> In last week's rankings, I awarded Daisy bronze for telling it like it is. She turned up the heat even more this week with her still-relevant critique of society's inherently evil and unfair power structures. If Tumblr was around in the 1920s, Daisy would have had so many social justice-inclined followers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>GOLD:\u003c/em> Rosamund:\u003c/strong> Robert may have inherited the mansion, but Rosamund inherited all the badass coolness from the Dowager. Keep doing you! 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Did you cool down from all that hanky panky talk in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/03/downton-abbey-season-6-premiere-recap-lets-talk-about-sex/\" target=\"_blank\">last week's season premiere\u003c/a>? Yeah, me neither, but the show must go on!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stranger cycles towards the Abbey. He might just be the mailman. Or he's arrived to either blackmail Lady Mary for having sex or accuse Bates or Anna of killing some rando. If it's the latter, I quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Daisy runs around with a plate of butter being cute. Other less cute people also do stuff. Molesley irons the pages of a newspaper (think about this next time a Crawley boo-hoos over not having as much money as in the good ol' days).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Robert and his second and third favorite daughters (R.I.P. Sybil) gossip about Rose. Remember her? She dated a black jazz musician and married a Jewish dude from a broken home? The scandal! Well, she has a Hamptons house now and might be pregnant. Here's hoping Robert isn't in charge of medical decisions during her delivery (again, R.I.P. Sybil).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone downstairs wants to speak to the Agent of the estate. Mary, who has taken over those duties, says \"I want to be left to manage him. It's my job!\" Carson stops in his tracks and raises his eyebrows. He holds back from screaming: \"But you have ovaries!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert asks Carson about his wedding a.k.a. the day he and Mrs. Hughes start having all the sex. Carson shares that they've set a date, but are still looking for a place to hold the reception. Mary says, \u003cem>Here, duh!\u003c/em> Robert comes in for the assist and...fails miserably, as he almost always does. \"We can decorate the servants hall and make it look really special.\" This statement is the sequel to \"Let them eat cake.\" Off with his super rich, blinded-by-a-lifetime-of-privilege head!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary gets this and reprimands her embarrassing dad: \"I don't want to discuss it now in a rush. We'll have a proper conversation later.\" *cue a chorus of middle schoolers saying oooooo after a classmate is called to the principal's office*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did you notice that everyone completely ignored Edith's existence and the two things she said in this scene? You probably ignored her too! No wonder Cora didn't even bother showing up to this lame breakfast. These people don't appreciate a fine woman when she's sipping tea right in front of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Molesley brings up that time Daisy lost her sh*t on her father-in-law's new landlord and ensured his eviction. Daisy self-flogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Agent-seeker meets with Mary. She breaks her new role to him and he tries not to burn everything to the ground. They talk about pigs a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a walk outside, Mrs. Hughes incredulously repeats Robert's version of \"Let them eat cake\" to Carson. Have her reception in the servants hall? As if! She doesn't want to be a servant on her wedding day. Carson counters: \u003cem>But we'll still invite these rich people who don't actually value me at all, but whom I live to serve, right???\u003c/em> Mrs. Hughes gives him a side-eye and then this exchange takes place:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Mrs. Hughes:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\"Why? Did you think you would have to get married without Lady Mary to witness it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Carson:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\"She's an important figure in my life, Mrs. Hughes. I won't apologize.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one said marriage was easy, y'all!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at the Dowager's mansion, cousin Isobel, Robert, the doctor whose name I never remember, and the Countess sit around and argue some more about this hospital take-over. Robert says something glib about wanting to save lives. His mother hits back: \"If you can't say anything helpful, Robert, please be silent.\" Although a bit long, this should have been the title of the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cousin Isobel wants to get Cora involved because she knows Cora agrees with her side of things. I don't 100% understand what all this fuss is about and why it deserves a multi-episode arc, but I always side with the Dowager. Dear cousin Isobel, know your place. You just got here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, the newbie footman Andy talks about how he likes it there and wants to walk and explore more. Thomas offers to join because Andy is cute and Thomas hasn't gotten some in a while. Andy says something to the effect of \u003cem>no homo\u003c/em>. Mrs. Hughes agrees. Why is she so invested in keeping Thomas celibate? Just 'cause you have issues with your body and sex doesn't mean others can't get some. Let Thomas live!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moments later, Carson makes fun of the fact that Thomas might be laid off soon. I hope you're not a fan of Mrs. Hughes and Carson 'cause their wedding is shaping up to be a reprise of the wedding in \u003cem>Kill Bill\u003c/em>. \u003cstrong>13-year-old spoiler:\u003c/strong> It's bloody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhere in town, Molesley follows a bunch of kids and asks to talk to their teacher. He could definitely use more schooling. Let's hope that's what this is about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, some sexist is yelling at Edith on the phone again. She tells him to calm down. By now, we people of the future know this only makes matters worse, but it's 1925 and Edith doesn't know anything about conflict resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edith goes to complain to her family about how hated she is. Mary rolls her eyes. Like I said last week, these two need to just duel it out already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More talk about the boring hospital thing, which is thankfully interrupted by the children. Mary wants to take the kids on a field trip to see pigs at a local farm, which conveniently is the very farm where Edith kept Marigold hidden while she was pretending not to be post-partum depressed last year. Edith gets super anxious. Mary calls her a ninny. Same ol', same ol'.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Molesley finds Daisy and tells her about his visit with the town schoolmaster. He gives her old exams from previous years so she can be prepared to take one of her own. Daisy is like \u003cem>This is nice and all, but I'm pretty busy planning to meddle some more in my father-in-law's affairs. K thanks bye! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs in Mary's bedroom, Mary asks Anna why she's still a British lady reincarnation of Eeyore, despite her and her husband being acquitted. Anna brings up the time she had to go buy Mary a diaphragm (good times!) and then confides about her miscarriages. Mary feels bad and probably thinks something along the lines of: \u003cem>My maid has more problems than a math book.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In town, Isobel runs into her ex. He talks about how the locals need better health care and the hospital take-over will make things better. Like last week, he mentions how glad he is that they are allies on this issue. And, again, Isobel sings Taylor Swift's \"We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together.\" She then gets excited about battling the Dowager and predicts there will be \"wigs on the green.\" 2016 translation: \u003ca href=\"https://45.media.tumblr.com/9539c1e5a2c819760bcb1d72b458dcbe/tumblr_nu9jeoSHel1sar3c7o1_500.gif\" target=\"_blank\">wigs are about to be snatched\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the servants' quarters, Thomas offers to help cute newbie Andy wind the clocks and is spurned for the 908th time. It's really too bad \u003cem>He's Just Not That Into You\u003c/em> wasn't out back in 1925. Thomas could really use it right about now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the village farm, Mary is busy talking about pigs, while Mr. Drew and Cora are trying to speed things along before his crazy jealous wife a.k.a. Marigold's fake mom comes back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too late! His wife gets all mama bear with Marigold and Mr. Drew implores \"Let her go, Margie.\" She begrudgingly does and Cora gets Marigold the hell out of there. This goes down in history as the shortest and most polite hostage crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Thomas plans to go on a job interview nearby. He hopes there are cute boys there who will let him wind their clocks, if you know what I mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Mary tells Carson that, despite what her father stupidly said about making up the servants' hall for his wedding reception, it can be held in any of the upstairs rooms. Robert is sour about her fixing his faux pas and still has no clue why what he said was demeaning and offensive. Some things never change!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the shoe-polish room, where everything always happens, Anna is in the dark crying again. Bates tries to comfort her with trite passages he read in a greeting card once. He asks if she would consider adoption. Anna says she would, but that Bates is \"tribal\" and wants his own child. He's doesn't deny this and then continues to be entirely unhelpful: \"To me, we are one person. And that person can't have children.\" What poetry! I'm not sure who I'm more annoyed with: Bates or the writer who got paid to write that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, the sexist phone caller is now yelling at Edith IRL. She fires him on the spot. No, actually she just takes it 'cause her superpower is soaking in all forms of criticism and ire like a sponge and then crying it all out at night and sometimes even almost \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/01/05/downton-abbey-season-5-premiere-recap-lover-you-shouldnt-have-come-over/\" target=\"_blank\">burning down the house \u003c/a>while she's at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas shows up for his interview and any hopes for sexy clock-winding are quickly dashed because of an impressive gaydar. \"You're a delicate looking fella, aren't you?\" the homophobe interviewer asks, before bullying Thomas for not being married. Add this dude to the list of people Thomas will most likely murder soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Mary tells Anna she wants to help her with this whole no babies thing. OMG, is she going to find her a surrogate and help her pretend she was pregnant all along, \u003ca href=\"http://blackbag.gawker.com/did-beyonce-fake-her-pregnancy-1693597363\" target=\"_blank\">like Beyonce (allegedly) did\u003c/a> with Blue Ivy? Oh, they're just going to visit a doctor to see what's up. That works too, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna keeps refusing help, but Mary points out all the times Anna has helped her in a time of need: hiding \"that fearful Dutch thingamajig\" (we all must call contraceptives this from now on) and carrying the Turk's dead body out of her room. They have a good, long laugh thinking about how Mary killed a man with her vagina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It only takes 3.2 seconds for Anna to turn back into Eeyore. She mopes about how going to the doctor or even a potential operation probably won't work. The only way Mary avoids strangling her sadsack neck is to ask her if she'll tell Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna says she won't. \"He'd help too much.\" Translation: he would try killing someone again and this final season doesn't have enough running time to include a third instance of Bates maybe going to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Have y'all ever noticed that Bates is basically Lennie from \u003cem>Of Mice and Men\u003c/em>? Always meaning well, but accidentally hurting or killing things? That novel takes place in the 1930s, which could mean that this entire show is an origin story and Bates does something awful at Downton and must flee to California's Salinas Valley to assume a new identity. I wouldn't rule it out!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their bedroom, Cora and Robert talk about how Mrs. Drew wants to \"swallow [Marigold] whole.\" Cora asks about the possibility of making the Drews move 'cause she knows that, once Mrs. Drew finds a windowless white van, she'll be kidnapping Marigold tout de suite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Baxter encourages Daisy not to be angry with Cora for not being able to help Daisy's father-in-law. Daisy's A+ response: \"It's the system's fault! That's what makes me angry: the system! And she's part of it!\" Out of the mouth of immortal, ageless, partially educated babes! Revolution is nigh! Tom Branson would be so proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, Edith and her aunt drink booze out of tiny glasses and talk about fine dining, shopping and the joys of living alone. On that last note, Rosamund correctly points out: \"That's the danger of living alone. It can be very hard to give up.\" I'm so with her on this one. Nothing's better than coming home and doing whatever the hell you want without someone being there to judge you for eating raw cookie dough out of a bowl in your underwear while watching a marathon of \u003cem>The Great British Baking Show\u003c/em>. Oh, you don't do that? Uh, yeah, me neither. Anywaaay, how is super chill Rosamund related to her loser brother Robert? It boggles the mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs at Downton, Mrs. Hughes tells Carson she doesn't want to get married at Downton because it's not who they are. Carson, who's convinced himself that he's a part of the Crawley family, despite the whole waiting on them hand and foot for a lifetime thing, doesn't agree, but plans to decline the offer because happy wife, happy life or whatever people say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, Bates and Anna talk about her trip to London. 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Then we get a peek into what a happy marriage looks like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Robert:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> [referring to inviting Isobel] Is that wise?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Cora:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> At least she's an ally I can rely on, even if I can't rely on you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> I didn't tell you about the meeting bec...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Cora:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> [to Mary] \"What time's your train?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brrr, it's gonna be cold in the marital bed tonight!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family switches the topic over to Carson's wedding reception. Carson tries to get out of having it at Downton, but Lady Mary vows that the reception will be there if it's the last thing she does. Uh oh, Mrs. Hughes is going to be soooo pissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hospital, Cora admits she's on Team Give Up the Hospital. The Countess is desperate to change the tide with some manipulative psychology: \"Are you saying Dr. Clarkson is a bad doctor?\" Cora doesn't find this as amusing as I do and decides to leave. Isobel rubs salt in the wound on her way out: \"I'll come with you. We must give them time to gnash their teeth alone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the future kidnapper's farm, Robert tries to convince Mr. Drew to move away before his wife does something dumb. It doesn't work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Carson's office, Mrs. Hughes blows up when Carson tells her Lady Mary insists they have their reception upstairs. \"Heaven forfend we lowly folk should do anything to contradict the \u003cem>blessed\u003c/em> Lady Mary!\" Yeesh! This is getting ugly fast! Remember the forehead kisses, guys?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently not because Mrs. Hughes is still at it: \"We'll be doing it your way for the next 30 years, I know that well enough, but the wedding day is mine!\" Good grief, Mrs. Hughes has become such a drama queen since she's gotten engaged. First the whole I never want to have sex or be naked ever again thing and now this? Also, it's super sad that she's resigned to doing everything Carson's way for the next 30 years. Although I guess a dark silver lining is that, let's be real, neither of them have another 30 years left. (Hey, don't get mad at me for speaking truth; people lived shorter lives back then!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Baxter...you know what, I think you should just see it for yourself 'cause I'm too busy laughing:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"No.\" Ha ha ha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, sorry, where was I? Oh, yeah. Cora has a secret plan to help Daisy so she'll shut up about her father-in-law and the evil power structures that keep the poor in their place, while making the 1% richer. Bloody revolution has been averted...for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, Anna finds out she suffers from a rude-sounding condition called \"cervical incompetence.\" (Between this and preeclampsia, I've learned a whole lot about women's reproductive health, haven't you?) It's okay though 'cause the doctor can fix it with an out-patient operation done at her own house! How much do you wanna bet that she tries to have this operation done without Bates knowing and he happens to walk in on it and thinks something else is going on and Bates kills the doctor and maybe Anna too? I bet you 75 cents (I need quarters for laundry).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Bates knows something's up because Anna is acting \"bouncy\" instead of weeping in the shoe polish room like usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the village, there are a ton of farm animals in pens being judged. The whole gang is in attendance, including Mrs. Drew, who instantly locks eyes on Marigold. Amber alert in 3, 2, 1...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy is bowling nearby and Thomas insists on embarrassing himself further by first asking Andy to come with him to see Mary's pigs (declined) and then to help teach Andy how to bowl (double declined). Mrs. Patmore is there to say \u003cem>Dude, give it a rest. He's not gay!\u003c/em> Thomas still thinks he is. This better be going somewhere!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Drew stares at Marigold some more. Okay, I get it. You grew attached to the baby when you had her for a few months, but you have a boatload of kids already. Focus on them and leave this little heiress alone. I know you won't though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Hughes and Carson argue some more about this stupid reception. Just don't get married!!! Problem solved!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First prize for fattest pig or whatever goes to Lady Mary's swine! Everyone celebrates for exactly two seconds before they realize Marigold is missing! Didn't I tell y'all???\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone hyperventilates and runs around for a while, until they remember that, oh yeah, that obsessed, unhinged lady probably took her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gang heads to the Drew farm, where Mr. Drew finds his wife cradling and humming to Marigold. \"She was bored,\" she explains. \"They were paying her no attention, none at all!\" Okay, she's right about the last bit. These kids are such afterthoughts. But the crazy unravels further. \"Of course I brought her here. This is her home!\" Girl, please give it a rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Drew calmly begs her to hand over the child, the same way you talk to someone pointing a gun at your face. She eventually does and then dramatically watches him give Marigold back from a window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Drew tells Robert he will start looking for a new home (one close to a loony bin presumably). Robert relays the news to Edith and Cora and they're like \u003cem>Ugh, finally. Anyway, what's for dinner? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And scene!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After every episode, it's only right to reward characters who've impressed and diss the ones that haven't, so here goes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> Bates and Mrs. Drew: \u003c/strong>Both kid obsessed. How about they run away together? Mr. Drew and Anna will be sad at first, but will eventually find solace in each other. Mr. Drew will finally stop making that frowny face all the time and Anna will quit crying while surrounded by shoes. It's a win-win!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Anna:\u003c/strong> I forgot about all the gangster stuff she's done in the past. Buying contraceptives and moving dead bodies? That counts for something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>BRONZE: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Mr. Drew:\u003c/strong> It's a hard knock life when you can't stop your wife from kidnapping other people's children, but he does the best that he can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>SILVER: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Daisy:\u003c/strong> In last week's rankings, I awarded Daisy bronze for telling it like it is. She turned up the heat even more this week with her still-relevant critique of society's inherently evil and unfair power structures. If Tumblr was around in the 1920s, Daisy would have had so many social justice-inclined followers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>GOLD:\u003c/em> Rosamund:\u003c/strong> Robert may have inherited the mansion, but Rosamund inherited all the badass coolness from the Dowager. Keep doing you! Just say no to roommates!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/ros1.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19812\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19812\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/ros1.gif\" alt=\"rosamund downton gif\" width=\"245\" height=\"139\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Previous Season 6 recaps:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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