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Not a huge turn on, but it seems to be working a little at least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson leaves and Anna comes in to talk to Hughes, classic victim blaming herself for the Rapist’s behavior. Hughes tries to talk some sense into her and tell her to go to the police or at least tell Bates, but Anna is convinced, rightly probably, that Bates will murder the Rapist. “Better a broken heart than a broken neck,” she says. Really though?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of which, in the kitchen, Daisy is setting up Alfred for a lower-level broken heart by letting him catch Jim Jam making out with Ivy. Which is worse, Alfred?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, Mary is surprised by the Pirate. All the richies are going to see jazz music! Wait a second! There’s a black person on the screen! He’s singing music and I think he’s American! His dulcet tones are watering the tiny baby shoots of romance between Mary and the Pirate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the kitchen, Top Chef Downton is finally taking the next step in his journey towards being the Best Chef in the World by testing for a cooking school in London. Make them a dill sauce! You’re a shoe-in, Alfred. And while Ivy may not see the forest for the trees, your dreams of acceptable employment are much sexier than Jim Jam’s ambition to be a lothario. Of course, Daisy the Shining Star of the Kitchen \u003cem>sees\u003c/em> you Alfred. Why can’t you see her back?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But out of the muck of the kitchen and back to the jazz dancing party in London! I’m just going to say it: this guy is a terrible singer. He’s cute and I’m glad they are bring even the smallest bit of token diversity to Downton, but, seriously, the singing is atrocious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter because on the dance floor, Rose is getting twirled like a top by her drunken suitor. When he runs off to ralph in the john, the chanteur turns out to be much better at gentleman-ing than singing, as he rescues her from “deep humiliation” by twirling her around the dance floor like a proper lady. Sadly, her Crawly family is not into African-American jazz singers and her love is cut off abruptly by Tom “Person in a Glass House Who Should Probably Be Careful About Where He Throws Societally Inappropriate Relationship Stones” Branson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the London house, Mary Shakespeare says to Tom the Sad One: “What’s the matter? You’ve been in a glump all day,” and thus wins the prize for Best Word of the Episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Edna happily shines some shoes and out sneaks the House Sneak Thomas. Because she’s already pregnant, right?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Bates finally confronts Anna about her refusal to so much as make eye contact with him. 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Now it’s too late and you will never ever fill Sybil’s perfectly shaped shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the stairs, Edna’s out, which appears to be good news for Top Sneak Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After dinner, Mary’s in purple and back to her regular Edith take-down habit. When Robert notices that Edith isn’t around (she could have been gone for weeks for all he knows) and acts as though she’s a mysterious mystery, Mary says: “Honestly Papa, Edith’s about as mysterious as a bucket.” Zing!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in London, Edith the Sinful is probably going to get to know Michael in a naked way. She’s dressed like a flapper, which might be giving him the wrong idea. And by wrong idea, I mean the absolutely right idea. Bow chicka wow wow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Confessional, Hughes the Healer gives Carson a framed pic of his old lover interest. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/13/downton-abbey-season-4-episode-2-recap-whos-up-for-a-game-of-cards/downton1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10531\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10531\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/downton1.jpg\" alt=\"downton1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/downton1.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/downton1-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blameless flower Anna.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Welcome home, friends! It’s episode two of \u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em> and finally the dog’s butt is back! As always: \u003cstrong>spoiler alert!\u003c/strong> Now, it’s time for a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A train of fancy automobiles wind their way up to Downton Abbey. Who do they contain? Rich people? Famous people? Love interests?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, right out of the gate, one of them contains a dashing servant with the hot hot hots for Anna. But more on that later, I’m sure, because…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, it’s a party! An awkward milling-about tea party. But the family is in full form. Take for example Robert who says: “Who’s the glamorous pirate?” about a perfectly normal looking gentleman in the corner. What makes him pirate-like, pray tell, Robert? Is he wearing his tie in a particularly uncouth knot? Is his hair unacceptably dark and wavy? Oh Downton, your rules and mores still befuddle me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary tells the Pirate she hates him because he was a mean meanie when she was a little kid. He’s a pirate, Mary! What do you expect??\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the party must go on! “I’m afraid Tom’s small talk is very small indeed,” zings Violet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everyone can be Oscar Wilde,” zangs Robert back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a relief,” zooms Violet. Comedy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Hughes and Carson (Brangelina) reminisce about the days before the war when everyone had a proper number of maids and valets. Edna begins to show her true colors as a lazy layabout Thomas follower by saying she's too busy to lend a hand with the guests. Too busy plotting to bring down Downton!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the stairs, Mary chats up the Pirate and gets the vitals: no kids, no wife, no eye patch. Too bad she’s so grin-y these days. A pirate would have been a perfect husband for Wednesday Addams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Mrs. Patmore appears to be cooking squirrels or else her mouth is full of marbles. Seriously. Is she cooking squirrels?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flirting man is back. Note: he’s much cuter than Bates and doesn’t seem to have any enemies who want to destroy him forever. Also, Anna is clearly flirting back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of flirting, Edna the Home Wrecker ambushes poor simple Tom with her low sexy home wrecker voice. Oh god, Tom, NO. Think of Baby Sybbie! Think of me!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the other house, Isobel is still in black, still palling around with the doctor. Another later-in-life will they/won’t they perhaps? Brangelina is already taken so…Bennifer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, Violet gives old Tommy a little lesson in manners. When he points out how illogical it is that he has to call rich people by different titles now that he too is a rich person, Violet quips: “But if I were to search for logic, I should not look for it among the English upper class.” She smirks as she walks away, much, one assumes, as Julian Fellowes smirked as he wrote the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the party starts to heat up, Mary starts talking dirty to the Pirate: “I haven’t been in the saddle in ages,” she says. “I’ll be stiff as a board the next day.” Oh, \u003cem>will\u003c/em> you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molesley the Sad Panda turns up as a delivery boy. Well, it’s better than shoveling asphalt, right? I’m wondering if he’s working towards a spin-off series about all the crap jobs a drunk can get in the village? Like \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Jobs\" target=\"_blank\">Dirty Work\u003c/a>: Downton Abbey\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the breakfast table, Rose seems to be striking up more than just conversation with Chris O’Donnell circa \u003cem>Circle of Friends\u003c/em>. Tom tries to get work done while Edith, a dream in pink, tries to get her daddy to talk to her boyfriend. Unfortunately, Lord Grantham doesn’t recognize her or maybe was never quite sure who she was in the first place. Oh, Edith. Just go to Germany, where you will be valued for your golden locks and you can work on your daddy issues with your older future husband instead of your real daddy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the servant men discuss how the richy-riches upstairs lost a bunch of money last night playing poker. Thomas says something menacing through a cloud of smoke and nobody even cares anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary and the Pirate ride horses down a sun-dappled lane. At least it’s not a car ride. Too soon!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Bates is getting jealous!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the library, Cora the Queen of Passivity says to Carson: “We’re all going on a tour of the gardens in 10 minutes. When we get back it might be nice to have some coffee.” Hypothetical: what if he \u003cem>didn't\u003c/em> get the coffee and was like, “Hey, you never said, \u003cem>get\u003c/em> coffee. You just mentioned you thought it would \u003cem>maybe\u003c/em> be nice if it was there when you got back! I agreed! How kind of nice if coffee just appeared for you out of the sky!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downer Robert rains on Cora There’s-a-Singer-Coming-to-Our-House parade. Hey, Robert! Stop ruining everything fun in the whole world!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Jimmy Jam shows off for Ivy (\u003ca href=\"http://cdn03.cdnwp.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/22/ad-her.gif\" target=\"_blank\">her?\u003c/a>) and breaks a jar of jam. It’s cute because it goes with his name!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dining area, Robert shows what a real Future Man he is by letting Carson let the kitchen staff see the opera singer. Next step, equal rights for women! Just kidding. Not under Lord Grantham’s watch!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the horses, Pirate and Mary commiserate about the sad trouble of land owners forced to pay taxes. You can almost see the #firstworldproblems sign hanging over their heads in the crisp, English air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Jim Jam’s stunt with the jam jar has led to a real wrist injury, which means his old love interest T-Bones is going to have to carry a tray like a common commoner! \"Mr. Carson, must I remind you that I’m the under butler?” asks Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t care if you’re the high cockalorum; you’re a footman tonight,” responds Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Note: using the pause button and the internet, I discovered that high cockalorum is a thing! Not just Carson nonsense talk from the vaudeville stage, it's \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Cockalorum\" target=\"_blank\">a game that involves jumping on people\u003c/a>—like extra dangerous Red Rover. Also, it was popular during World War II. So in this case, I think we can definitely call it anachronistic nonsense that could hurt Jimmy's wrist worse than a little jam jar mishap. Moving on.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs and downstairs, the flirting rages on. Rose and Chris, the Pirate and Mary, Anna and the Interloper Servant and the Duchess and Tom. Drama! Romance! Let the dancing begin!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strangely, Mary can’t handle the sight of Matthew’s old gramophone. Oh really? But you are cool with the rest of his house and his baby and so, so many sun-dappled lanes? Just admit it, Mary, you are two seconds away from Pamuk-ing it like crazy with the Pirate and it scares you because the record of people you have slept with who have then perished in strange and premature ways is now 2 for 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Card Shark sharks the men hard in a smoky room for men only. Someone expose this man!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Tom confides in Edna that he feels stupid amongst the rich. Dear Tom: Edna is a tricky, bad lady. She will eat your heart and your soul for breakfast. Please find another woman to tell your sorrows to. I suggest Edith, Baby Sybbie or a pen pal from the future (me).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary lies in bed, fully clothed, and dead pans to Anna: “Sometimes I don’t know who I’m more in mourning for, Matthew or the person I was when I was with him.” Hint: it’s you. You you you. You love you sooo much, Lady Mary. You love you the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Molesley is going to serve tonight at the party. Great, finally some excitement! He’s guaranteed to get wasted and pour mousse all over the most famous guest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Robert lies hard to Cora about the fact that he just lost all their money to the Card Shark who happens to just be a guy he met at his \"club\" and then invited over to his house for a many days long party. What kind of clubs are you going to, Robert?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Molesley is mortally offended by the fact that he must wear gloves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the servants dining area, Bates glowers as Anna basically makes out (plays cards and laughs) with the Other Servant, while somewhere, in a smoky room, Edith’s BF sets the Card Shark up for what I can only hope will be a Molesley-level humiliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, Cora is horrified that the world famous singer isn’t being allowed at the dinner table. She doesn’t get it! Robert is Future Man! He’s letting the kitchen staff watch the singer later! Let him live, Cora! Geez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson and Robert are wearing the exact same outfit. Oh god. Who is the butler and who is the Extreme Master Overlord of Everything?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Patmore is flipping out so hard over Ivy’s terrible spooning skills that she appears to develop a hernia right before dinner. Alfred, who as we all know secretly is the Top Chef of Downton, takes the reins and starts in on the dill sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, all is calm and appropriate (no hernias, no men making sauces). The Opera Singer has the world’s best headdress and the Pirate flirts with Mary in front of her dead husband’s mother. Isobel nearly cries to Tom at the dinner table. So maybe she’s the one he should confide in?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Bates’ rage over Anna’s outrageous flirting (card playing) is about to boil over. Please tell me all the poison is hidden somewhere high up that requires a ladder and jumping to reach?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctor diagnoses Patmore with panic over the guests. He gives her a Xanax and tells her to get over herself, then goes and gets ready for the concert (and maybe a little romance with Isobel?).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson, as usual, is not amused by any of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the library, Thomas and Robert have a man-to-man heart-to-heart, which just involves Robert completely ignoring the words coming out of Tom’s mouth. He might as well be Edith. Poor guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Opera Singer entertains the whole house with her headdress and, well, singing. Carson especially is taken back to his time on the stage (flash back flash back [to be chanted together]). Somehow, Isabelle is in purple now too. Did she change after dinner? Get over her extreme mourning period finally?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the side room, where the men are playing cards, Edith-loving Michael appears to be setting some kind of genius trap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, things take a turn for the very, very dark as the Nameless Servant attempts to rape Anna. Everyone upstairs! Stop smiling! Rescue Anna right now!!! She is a blameless flower! I am sorry I ever said anything bad about her! Rescue her! Stop this ridiculous singing!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the card room, blah blah blah who cares if Michael wins back all the money in the world? Where is Anna and will someone please help her?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you kidding me? More nonsense nothing happens. Edna again tries to insinuate herself with Tom and can we please get to the real business?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Hughes’ office, Anna is sobbing and totally broken. Somehow, raping Anna is by far the worst thing that has ever happened at Downton. You can make jokes about Matthew and Sybil's deaths, and even the soap and baby thing has its funny side, but geez, not this. This is the worst. That’s pretty much all I can say about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, now I'm devastated, but I guess the show must go on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Character Ranking:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Molesley:\u003c/strong> For \u003cem>not\u003c/em> getting drunk and spilling dill sauce all over the Opera Singer and the Duchess, I rank you, Molesley. I’m all about improvement and, by not completely failing at everything you did this week, you showed some.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Michael:\u003c/strong> He saved the day by out card sharking the Card Shark (even if they gave us absolutely no details about how either of them cheated)! And in the process, he discovered the only way to get through to Robert: dollar dollar bills, y’all (pound pound notes, y'all).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/13/downton-abbey-season-4-episode-2-recap-whos-up-for-a-game-of-cards/downton1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10531\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10531\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/downton1.jpg\" alt=\"downton1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/downton1.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/downton1-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blameless flower Anna.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Welcome home, friends! It’s episode two of \u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em> and finally the dog’s butt is back! As always: \u003cstrong>spoiler alert!\u003c/strong> Now, it’s time for a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A train of fancy automobiles wind their way up to Downton Abbey. Who do they contain? Rich people? Famous people? Love interests?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, right out of the gate, one of them contains a dashing servant with the hot hot hots for Anna. But more on that later, I’m sure, because…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, it’s a party! An awkward milling-about tea party. But the family is in full form. Take for example Robert who says: “Who’s the glamorous pirate?” about a perfectly normal looking gentleman in the corner. What makes him pirate-like, pray tell, Robert? Is he wearing his tie in a particularly uncouth knot? Is his hair unacceptably dark and wavy? Oh Downton, your rules and mores still befuddle me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary tells the Pirate she hates him because he was a mean meanie when she was a little kid. He’s a pirate, Mary! What do you expect??\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the party must go on! “I’m afraid Tom’s small talk is very small indeed,” zings Violet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everyone can be Oscar Wilde,” zangs Robert back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a relief,” zooms Violet. Comedy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Hughes and Carson (Brangelina) reminisce about the days before the war when everyone had a proper number of maids and valets. Edna begins to show her true colors as a lazy layabout Thomas follower by saying she's too busy to lend a hand with the guests. Too busy plotting to bring down Downton!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the stairs, Mary chats up the Pirate and gets the vitals: no kids, no wife, no eye patch. Too bad she’s so grin-y these days. A pirate would have been a perfect husband for Wednesday Addams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Mrs. Patmore appears to be cooking squirrels or else her mouth is full of marbles. Seriously. Is she cooking squirrels?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flirting man is back. Note: he’s much cuter than Bates and doesn’t seem to have any enemies who want to destroy him forever. Also, Anna is clearly flirting back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of flirting, Edna the Home Wrecker ambushes poor simple Tom with her low sexy home wrecker voice. Oh god, Tom, NO. Think of Baby Sybbie! Think of me!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the other house, Isobel is still in black, still palling around with the doctor. Another later-in-life will they/won’t they perhaps? Brangelina is already taken so…Bennifer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, Violet gives old Tommy a little lesson in manners. When he points out how illogical it is that he has to call rich people by different titles now that he too is a rich person, Violet quips: “But if I were to search for logic, I should not look for it among the English upper class.” She smirks as she walks away, much, one assumes, as Julian Fellowes smirked as he wrote the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the party starts to heat up, Mary starts talking dirty to the Pirate: “I haven’t been in the saddle in ages,” she says. “I’ll be stiff as a board the next day.” Oh, \u003cem>will\u003c/em> you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molesley the Sad Panda turns up as a delivery boy. Well, it’s better than shoveling asphalt, right? I’m wondering if he’s working towards a spin-off series about all the crap jobs a drunk can get in the village? Like \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Jobs\" target=\"_blank\">Dirty Work\u003c/a>: Downton Abbey\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the breakfast table, Rose seems to be striking up more than just conversation with Chris O’Donnell circa \u003cem>Circle of Friends\u003c/em>. Tom tries to get work done while Edith, a dream in pink, tries to get her daddy to talk to her boyfriend. Unfortunately, Lord Grantham doesn’t recognize her or maybe was never quite sure who she was in the first place. Oh, Edith. Just go to Germany, where you will be valued for your golden locks and you can work on your daddy issues with your older future husband instead of your real daddy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the servant men discuss how the richy-riches upstairs lost a bunch of money last night playing poker. Thomas says something menacing through a cloud of smoke and nobody even cares anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary and the Pirate ride horses down a sun-dappled lane. At least it’s not a car ride. Too soon!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Bates is getting jealous!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the library, Cora the Queen of Passivity says to Carson: “We’re all going on a tour of the gardens in 10 minutes. When we get back it might be nice to have some coffee.” Hypothetical: what if he \u003cem>didn't\u003c/em> get the coffee and was like, “Hey, you never said, \u003cem>get\u003c/em> coffee. You just mentioned you thought it would \u003cem>maybe\u003c/em> be nice if it was there when you got back! I agreed! How kind of nice if coffee just appeared for you out of the sky!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downer Robert rains on Cora There’s-a-Singer-Coming-to-Our-House parade. Hey, Robert! Stop ruining everything fun in the whole world!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Jimmy Jam shows off for Ivy (\u003ca href=\"http://cdn03.cdnwp.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/22/ad-her.gif\" target=\"_blank\">her?\u003c/a>) and breaks a jar of jam. It’s cute because it goes with his name!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dining area, Robert shows what a real Future Man he is by letting Carson let the kitchen staff see the opera singer. Next step, equal rights for women! Just kidding. Not under Lord Grantham’s watch!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the horses, Pirate and Mary commiserate about the sad trouble of land owners forced to pay taxes. You can almost see the #firstworldproblems sign hanging over their heads in the crisp, English air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Jim Jam’s stunt with the jam jar has led to a real wrist injury, which means his old love interest T-Bones is going to have to carry a tray like a common commoner! \"Mr. Carson, must I remind you that I’m the under butler?” asks Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t care if you’re the high cockalorum; you’re a footman tonight,” responds Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Note: using the pause button and the internet, I discovered that high cockalorum is a thing! Not just Carson nonsense talk from the vaudeville stage, it's \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Cockalorum\" target=\"_blank\">a game that involves jumping on people\u003c/a>—like extra dangerous Red Rover. Also, it was popular during World War II. So in this case, I think we can definitely call it anachronistic nonsense that could hurt Jimmy's wrist worse than a little jam jar mishap. Moving on.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs and downstairs, the flirting rages on. Rose and Chris, the Pirate and Mary, Anna and the Interloper Servant and the Duchess and Tom. Drama! Romance! Let the dancing begin!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strangely, Mary can’t handle the sight of Matthew’s old gramophone. Oh really? But you are cool with the rest of his house and his baby and so, so many sun-dappled lanes? Just admit it, Mary, you are two seconds away from Pamuk-ing it like crazy with the Pirate and it scares you because the record of people you have slept with who have then perished in strange and premature ways is now 2 for 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Card Shark sharks the men hard in a smoky room for men only. Someone expose this man!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Tom confides in Edna that he feels stupid amongst the rich. Dear Tom: Edna is a tricky, bad lady. She will eat your heart and your soul for breakfast. Please find another woman to tell your sorrows to. I suggest Edith, Baby Sybbie or a pen pal from the future (me).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary lies in bed, fully clothed, and dead pans to Anna: “Sometimes I don’t know who I’m more in mourning for, Matthew or the person I was when I was with him.” Hint: it’s you. You you you. You love you sooo much, Lady Mary. You love you the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Molesley is going to serve tonight at the party. Great, finally some excitement! He’s guaranteed to get wasted and pour mousse all over the most famous guest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Robert lies hard to Cora about the fact that he just lost all their money to the Card Shark who happens to just be a guy he met at his \"club\" and then invited over to his house for a many days long party. What kind of clubs are you going to, Robert?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Molesley is mortally offended by the fact that he must wear gloves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the servants dining area, Bates glowers as Anna basically makes out (plays cards and laughs) with the Other Servant, while somewhere, in a smoky room, Edith’s BF sets the Card Shark up for what I can only hope will be a Molesley-level humiliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, Cora is horrified that the world famous singer isn’t being allowed at the dinner table. She doesn’t get it! Robert is Future Man! He’s letting the kitchen staff watch the singer later! Let him live, Cora! Geez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson and Robert are wearing the exact same outfit. Oh god. Who is the butler and who is the Extreme Master Overlord of Everything?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Patmore is flipping out so hard over Ivy’s terrible spooning skills that she appears to develop a hernia right before dinner. Alfred, who as we all know secretly is the Top Chef of Downton, takes the reins and starts in on the dill sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, all is calm and appropriate (no hernias, no men making sauces). The Opera Singer has the world’s best headdress and the Pirate flirts with Mary in front of her dead husband’s mother. Isobel nearly cries to Tom at the dinner table. So maybe she’s the one he should confide in?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Bates’ rage over Anna’s outrageous flirting (card playing) is about to boil over. Please tell me all the poison is hidden somewhere high up that requires a ladder and jumping to reach?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctor diagnoses Patmore with panic over the guests. He gives her a Xanax and tells her to get over herself, then goes and gets ready for the concert (and maybe a little romance with Isobel?).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson, as usual, is not amused by any of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the library, Thomas and Robert have a man-to-man heart-to-heart, which just involves Robert completely ignoring the words coming out of Tom’s mouth. He might as well be Edith. Poor guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Opera Singer entertains the whole house with her headdress and, well, singing. Carson especially is taken back to his time on the stage (flash back flash back [to be chanted together]). Somehow, Isabelle is in purple now too. Did she change after dinner? 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/06/downton-abbey-recap-addams-family-values-season-4-premiere/downtrecap1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10414\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10414\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/downtrecap1.jpg\" alt=\"downtrecap1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/downtrecap1.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/downtrecap1-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The family that parents orphans together, stays together.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Welcome back, friends. How are you doing? I mean, like, emotionally? Are you still having those \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/popculture/article.jsp?essid=116589\" target=\"_blank\">harrowing flashbacks\u003c/a> every time you drive smiling down a sun-dappled country road? When your friends are even a little sick, do you immediately yell, “Take her to the hospital! \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/popculture/article.jsp?essid=115174\" target=\"_blank\">Her ankles are usually so slender!\u003c/a>” Well, it’s time to move on. We’re in this together. Another season starts now. \u003cstrong>SPOILER ALERT. \u003c/strong>Cue the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We return to Downton ominously. Did all the inhabitants of the Abbey become vampires so they could live eternally together? Are Sybil and Matthew back from the dead in a \u003cem>True Blood\u003c/em> Tara-style twist? Michelle Dockery was born to play a vampire queen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, it looks like the vampire hypothesis is proven false as Lady Mary allows the cool light to brush her pale cheeks. It’s 1922 and the downstairs team is all aflutter. Someone is gone. Who is it? So much for suspense: it’s O’Brien! What will we do without her conniving sideburns?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Token American Mom Cora can’t believe O’Brien would do something as cruel as leave her without a lady’s maid. Well, I guess we just won’t mention the whole baby-murder thing. Water under the bridge. Soapy water. We’ve got enough babies now to keep this series going for 30 more years! And they’re half orphan babies too! What drama (pronounced in the Canadian way please: “draaama”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the breakfast table, where the actual family members have been replaced by a Dreamy Irish Chauffeur, I mean, Grounds Keeper or \"Agent\" or something, and a Modern Trouble Maker. Just look at her youth! She’s harboring a few plot points up those chic sleeves, you can be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another note, good old Edith looks happy. We all know she doesn’t deserve it, what with being unmarried and all, but good for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know who’s not looking happy? Mary. Woo boy. That girl is a downer.\u003cem> \u003c/em>“Orphan” is not an appropriate pet name for your son, Lady. And would it kill you to smile once or get some color into your outfit? You’re like Wednesday Addams at summer camp but 100 limes less fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no matter! Here’s a fun mourner! The Dowager Countess is on the scene! Any good graveyard jokes for us, Violet? No? Moving on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Abbey, the head nanny is either a homophobe or just a jerk and Thomas may be a good guy now? I hope so because he’s d-r-e-a-m-y and now that Matthew has shuffled off his mortal coil, I’m going to need more men to objectify (sexism, I’m working on it).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the love birds Bates and Mrs. Bates adorably call Mary’s baby “Master George,” even amongst themselves (oppression, nobody’s really working on it).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Irishman and Lord Grantham do a little political exposition as they walk along the grounds, explaining for those of us not in 1922 why Mary is really in mourning: she now is basically penniless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Town Drunk Molesley seems sober but is as pathetic as always. Carson loves babies so I’m surprised he isn’t more tender with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, it is clear Edith is a common tramp. She’s going to a party?! Thrown by a man? With literary people?? Robert would disown her, if he wasn’t so busy not caring she existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not buying that Matthew the Lawyer had no will. How is that possible? He’s the kind of goody goody who gets a will drawn up the second his wife gets pregnant because he’s so responsible, and everyone rolls their eyes at him, but he has a 401K so who’s laughing now, guys? But maybe he wasn’t as responsible as we all thought. No will. Terrible at driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truth is finally revealed: Robert is trying to push his own daughter out of Downton. I hope Cora doesn’t stand for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the Hughes/Carson will they/won’t they romance is heating up again!! Which is good because this Anna/Bates thing is getting oooold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday Addams comes downstairs, perfecting her rain cloud impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major plot point, meddling, appears as Hughes begins interfering in Carson’s affairs. No no no, Hughesy! This is not the way to his heart! Ignore this guy! He’s bad news! He was in vaudeville for crying out loud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But! To London! Where Edith finally has a man so is therefore complete. Sure, he’s married, but he clearly wants to drop the zero (insane person) and get with the hero (star of the hit show \u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back home, Wednesday Addams hates babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a meeting of the Older Wisecracking Ladies of Downton Abbey Club, Violet tells Isobel: “It’s the job of grandmothers to interfere.” Odd, I haven’t seen her around her grandkids lately (in the last however long this episode has been on so I'm gonna say hour). Maybe this is foreshadowing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molesley the Sad Panda cannot catch a break. He’s going to be drunk on the streets in no time. First Matthew, his pity employer, dies and now no one wants him as a butler because let's be honest he is a horrible butler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the literary party, Edith looks entrancing in red. Her boyfriend Michael can’t handle her hotness and wants to take her to Germany where he can properly ravish her, get a legal divorce from his lunatic wife, marry her and ravish her some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Hughes and Carson have so much sexual tension you could cut it with a knife. Put down that candle holder and rip her dress off, Cars0n. If they drag this out for the next 5 seasons, I’m going to be pissed/super emotional when he runs after her at the airport, right before she boards her plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Mrs. Patmore is feeling threatened by electric beaters. As the kitchen staff occasionally does, she anachronistically predicts the future saying, “Before too long, her ladyship could run the kitchen with a woman from the village. With these toasters and mixers and suchlike, we’ll be out of a job!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(I got a mixer for Christmas so I am now officially a ladyship who runs her own kitchen. I still don’t have a toaster though so I use two village women.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The footmen or whatever are fighting over Ivy again. Baffling. Can they not see the dream that is Daisy? Cutest Person in the House, 4 years running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle between Thomas and the Nanny is heating up. I can’t wait till Sybbie takes sides. She’s going to be all Thomas, all the time, and Nanny’s going to be sorry she ever messed with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, Tom Branson tries to get Christina Ricci to take an interest in something besides her disembodied hand friend. She tries to fake being a human for a minute, but Gomez Addams likes to encourage her to be as sad and morbid as possible so he shuts the whole conversation down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, let's not forget: he’s trying to steal her money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wonder if Jessica Brown Findlay and Dan Stevens understood that their wanting to do other projects would mean all of the TV watching world would be subject to so much extreme mourning. Should we write them letters? It just seems like everyone in black, 2 deaths of important characters and 2 half orphan babies is 2 much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Branson the Upstart Irishman shows he wasn’t just putting it on for Sybil: he’s a real feminist! He wants Mary to be part of running the estate. And he’s engaging a well-known Mary-lover in his campaign for gender equality at Downton: Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Jimmy is trying hard to corrupt Ivy. Is he trying to make Daisy jealous or something? I’m still very confused by his motives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, it’s high noon and there’s gonna be a showdown. Upstairs v. Downstairs. Nanny v. Thomas. Evil v. Evil. Unfortunately for her, no one notified Nanny about Thomas and his nefarious ways. Oh, well. Maybe they’ll replace her with a hot male nanny love interest for Thomas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson approaches Wednesday Addams in her chambers. A little glimmer of the old Mary shines through when she dresses down Carson like an impudent child. Honestly, I like the dead eyes more. At least she’s quieter and less mean to the people who like her. Spoiler alert: Mary is my least favorite character on this show. O’Brien is better. Molesley is better. Pamuk is way, way, way better. Luckily, Carson knows how to deal with Lady Baby Mary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At dinner, Baby Mary throws a baby tantrum. I bet it’s cuter when her actual baby throws a tantrum (hint to the writers: more baby screen time please). But later, on the lawn, whiny Molesley gives her a run for her money for most downer character of this episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the theme of meddling is back and it looks like Violet is going to fix all the sad sacks this episode. Including Gomez, I hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the kitchen, Jimmy the Bad Guy got Ivy drunk at the pub. Surprise surprise. Alfred the Good Guy continues to suffer the fate of good guys throughout history. Too predictable. Too boring. Always there to help you when the bad guy gets you wasted and then leaves you in some random parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Bates and Anna flirt disgustingly. Get a room, guys, so we don't have to sit through your boring romance. Ugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose and Cora interview a new and mysterious lady’s maid. Yes, she seems great, but does she throw soap on the floor when soap needs throwing on the floor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molesley, the Saddest Man in the World, looks foolish at his covert job interview because, well, he’s the Saddest Man in the World. Seriously. Would it kill the writers to give him one day that doesn’t involve total humiliation? I know the actor's face sort of begs for it but really!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, Edith is wearing aqua now. Being the good sister suits her. I’m a bit distressed, however, to find out that her beau’s crazy wife’s name is Lizzy. Just to be clear: I’m no one’s institutionalized wife. That isn’t a twist at the end of all this. Oh, wait! Michael, the love interest is going to move himself and Edith to Germany?! Just in time for WWII? Don’t do it, Mike! Pick Greece!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Hughes doesn’t like this new lady’s maid, there must be something wonderfully sinister about her. I cannot wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truth: the fact that Mrs. Patmore sent Daisy a Valentine made me tear up a little. Those two just melt my cold, Lady Mary-esque heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, Edna the Lady’s Maid was the girl trying to hit on Branson? More draaaama! Stay strong, Branson!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, it looks like Nanny West actually was a horrible person. How can you call Sybbie a wicked half-breed? She’s the most perfect baby in the world. For the second time: I demand more baby Sybbie screen time!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez and Wednesday have a passive-aggressive off in the drawing room that ends with Wednesday apologizing to Carson for her bad behavior. One gets the feeling this isn’t the first time she’s abused and then apologized to old Carson. He’s clearly her spirit dad, since her biological dad is trying to force her into life-long mourning in order to steal her fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lady Mary arrives at a luncheon with the men and the Addams family disappears in a puff of a purple sweater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, there’s a letter from Gwen! I love Gwen! Bring Gwen back!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone commits mail fraud by opening Mary’s package of Matthew's belongings. Obviously it contains a will because like I said, he was really responsible. Lord Grantham continues to pretend he isn’t trying to steal money from his own child, but even his mother can see through him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Isobel’s house, the ladies continue to save Carson’s acting buddy, even though Carson won’t see him. What underlying issue is this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In town, Molesley is doing something very demeaning that looks like shoveling asphalt. This is what happens when you die, Matthew. Are you happy now?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his own drawing room, Robert tells all his family that he is a horrible person and will not honor his dead son-in-law’s wishes. Court procedural time! Later, they go to dinner, and he continues to alienate his entire family. It’s as if he doesn’t realize that he is always surrounded by women and the one man in the family is his former chauffeur who he has never been really nice to. Mary’s moving up in the rankings. Sadly, Robert is moving down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna goes room to room helping everyone get their lives in order, while the next morning the music is a bit cheerful-ominous and it appears Edna is going to be just as tricky and underhanded a maid for Cora as O’Brien was. Somehow, Cora seems to deserve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson gets nostalgic about a girl named Alice. Hey, Carson: talking about old girlfriends in front of the girl you are trying to woo is not a good tactic. I don’t care what Mystery said about \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=negging\" target=\"_blank\">negging\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meddling meddlers keep meddling. This time it’s Bates meddling for the Sad Panda’s benefit and Thomas meddling to Perfect Anna’s detriment and the Dowager Countess meddling on behalf of the whole world. “There can be too much truth in any relationship,” the Dowager says to Tom and Mary. Preach. Robert has shown us that he’s not capable of handling the truth. Maybe you should have been a better mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top-class meddler Isobel meets with some resistance to her Carson-based meddling and oh my god is this show still going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhere in London, Edith is amazed by a man who can boil water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary takes a car ride down a sun-dappled lane. She must be terrified!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some sort of den of sin that serves special tea and plays the one step, Trouble and Perfect have their first adventure. Jimmy Jam shows up, up to no good probably, and takes Anna for a twirl around the dance floor. Anna, how could you?! Bates can barely walk, let alone dance. He will be overcome with jealousy. He may poison your pie. JK, he’s been cleared of all charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the dance, things get violent because Rose is the prettiest flower in the whole garden and the farm boys \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/IyYnnUcgeMc\" target=\"_blank\">can’t handle her jelly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because they are a couple of perfect human beings, Bates gives Molesley money to make Anna happy. Oh, Bates, Mosley needs more than just money. He needs a lobotomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Abbey, Gomez Addams gives Bates the best line of the episode: “Look, I didn’t want to make a thing of it.” Neither do I, Robert, neither do I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stranger with great cheek bones approaches Downtown. Oh, it’s one of those farm boys Rose entranced at the dance. Rose is going to do a little slumming, maybe? As a disguise, she dresses up as an absolutely stunning maid. I’m kind of surprised she and Jimmy don’t start up a beautiful people thing, like a make-out club or something. Isn’t that what pretty people do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the episode ends, Mary takes the reins of the estate, the Bates have a new enemy in Edna and the music swells. Carson appears through the steam of a train, friendships are mended and the Hughes/Carson romance gets ready to ignite as they walk home together from the station. Romance! Season 4, here we come!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As always, I think it's important to think of everything as a competition. To that end, I will rank the top five characters every episode and we will total it up at the end and see who really won this season. Last year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/popculture/article.jsp?essid=116589\" target=\"_blank\">Edith won\u003c/a>. Can she do it again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Character Ranking:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Mary:\u003c/strong> I am LOATHE to include Mary/Wednesday in the rankings, but she comes in this time for standing up to \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/everything-on-downton-is-lord-granthams-fault.html\" target=\"_blank\">her no-good father\u003c/a> and getting way into the color purple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Daisy:\u003c/strong> Okay, I know I have a thing for Daisy. But everything in this episode -- her strange love for Alfred (\u003ca href=\"http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/15/article-2048303-0E53C80E00000578-448_634x700.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a dead ringer for her dead husband, by the way\u003c/a>), the graceful way in which she received the news that Patmore was her actual Valentine, her ability with the electric beaters -- proves she more than deserves this spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Hughes:\u003c/strong> Oh, Hughes. As much as I disagree with your behind-Carson's-back tactics, somehow they worked. Also, I continue to love your relationship with Patmore and I am so hoping you and Carson have a late fall romance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Patmore:\u003c/strong> Here are some reasons Patmore is almost the winner of this episode: her Valentine to Daisy, her inability to use electric beaters, her red hair, the way she holds the kitchen together, her friendship with Hughes and, of course, her attitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Branson: \u003c/strong>Branson takes home the gold this week for standing up for the cause, even when the cause isn't his cause and it means going against the ever-worse Lord Grantham. Also, he's Sybbie's dad. That alone will probably get him extra points forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good work, team. See you next week!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another note, good old Edith looks happy. We all know she doesn’t deserve it, what with being unmarried and all, but good for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know who’s not looking happy? Mary. Woo boy. That girl is a downer.\u003cem> \u003c/em>“Orphan” is not an appropriate pet name for your son, Lady. And would it kill you to smile once or get some color into your outfit? You’re like Wednesday Addams at summer camp but 100 limes less fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no matter! Here’s a fun mourner! The Dowager Countess is on the scene! Any good graveyard jokes for us, Violet? No? Moving on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Abbey, the head nanny is either a homophobe or just a jerk and Thomas may be a good guy now? I hope so because he’s d-r-e-a-m-y and now that Matthew has shuffled off his mortal coil, I’m going to need more men to objectify (sexism, I’m working on it).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the love birds Bates and Mrs. Bates adorably call Mary’s baby “Master George,” even amongst themselves (oppression, nobody’s really working on it).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Irishman and Lord Grantham do a little political exposition as they walk along the grounds, explaining for those of us not in 1922 why Mary is really in mourning: she now is basically penniless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Town Drunk Molesley seems sober but is as pathetic as always. Carson loves babies so I’m surprised he isn’t more tender with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, it is clear Edith is a common tramp. She’s going to a party?! Thrown by a man? With literary people?? Robert would disown her, if he wasn’t so busy not caring she existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not buying that Matthew the Lawyer had no will. How is that possible? He’s the kind of goody goody who gets a will drawn up the second his wife gets pregnant because he’s so responsible, and everyone rolls their eyes at him, but he has a 401K so who’s laughing now, guys? But maybe he wasn’t as responsible as we all thought. No will. Terrible at driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truth is finally revealed: Robert is trying to push his own daughter out of Downton. I hope Cora doesn’t stand for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the Hughes/Carson will they/won’t they romance is heating up again!! Which is good because this Anna/Bates thing is getting oooold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday Addams comes downstairs, perfecting her rain cloud impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major plot point, meddling, appears as Hughes begins interfering in Carson’s affairs. No no no, Hughesy! This is not the way to his heart! Ignore this guy! He’s bad news! He was in vaudeville for crying out loud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But! To London! Where Edith finally has a man so is therefore complete. Sure, he’s married, but he clearly wants to drop the zero (insane person) and get with the hero (star of the hit show \u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back home, Wednesday Addams hates babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a meeting of the Older Wisecracking Ladies of Downton Abbey Club, Violet tells Isobel: “It’s the job of grandmothers to interfere.” Odd, I haven’t seen her around her grandkids lately (in the last however long this episode has been on so I'm gonna say hour). Maybe this is foreshadowing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molesley the Sad Panda cannot catch a break. He’s going to be drunk on the streets in no time. First Matthew, his pity employer, dies and now no one wants him as a butler because let's be honest he is a horrible butler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the literary party, Edith looks entrancing in red. Her boyfriend Michael can’t handle her hotness and wants to take her to Germany where he can properly ravish her, get a legal divorce from his lunatic wife, marry her and ravish her some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Hughes and Carson have so much sexual tension you could cut it with a knife. Put down that candle holder and rip her dress off, Cars0n. If they drag this out for the next 5 seasons, I’m going to be pissed/super emotional when he runs after her at the airport, right before she boards her plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Mrs. Patmore is feeling threatened by electric beaters. As the kitchen staff occasionally does, she anachronistically predicts the future saying, “Before too long, her ladyship could run the kitchen with a woman from the village. With these toasters and mixers and suchlike, we’ll be out of a job!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(I got a mixer for Christmas so I am now officially a ladyship who runs her own kitchen. I still don’t have a toaster though so I use two village women.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The footmen or whatever are fighting over Ivy again. Baffling. Can they not see the dream that is Daisy? Cutest Person in the House, 4 years running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle between Thomas and the Nanny is heating up. I can’t wait till Sybbie takes sides. She’s going to be all Thomas, all the time, and Nanny’s going to be sorry she ever messed with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, Tom Branson tries to get Christina Ricci to take an interest in something besides her disembodied hand friend. She tries to fake being a human for a minute, but Gomez Addams likes to encourage her to be as sad and morbid as possible so he shuts the whole conversation down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, let's not forget: he’s trying to steal her money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wonder if Jessica Brown Findlay and Dan Stevens understood that their wanting to do other projects would mean all of the TV watching world would be subject to so much extreme mourning. Should we write them letters? It just seems like everyone in black, 2 deaths of important characters and 2 half orphan babies is 2 much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Branson the Upstart Irishman shows he wasn’t just putting it on for Sybil: he’s a real feminist! He wants Mary to be part of running the estate. And he’s engaging a well-known Mary-lover in his campaign for gender equality at Downton: Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Jimmy is trying hard to corrupt Ivy. Is he trying to make Daisy jealous or something? I’m still very confused by his motives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, it’s high noon and there’s gonna be a showdown. Upstairs v. Downstairs. Nanny v. Thomas. Evil v. Evil. Unfortunately for her, no one notified Nanny about Thomas and his nefarious ways. Oh, well. Maybe they’ll replace her with a hot male nanny love interest for Thomas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson approaches Wednesday Addams in her chambers. A little glimmer of the old Mary shines through when she dresses down Carson like an impudent child. Honestly, I like the dead eyes more. At least she’s quieter and less mean to the people who like her. Spoiler alert: Mary is my least favorite character on this show. O’Brien is better. Molesley is better. Pamuk is way, way, way better. Luckily, Carson knows how to deal with Lady Baby Mary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At dinner, Baby Mary throws a baby tantrum. I bet it’s cuter when her actual baby throws a tantrum (hint to the writers: more baby screen time please). But later, on the lawn, whiny Molesley gives her a run for her money for most downer character of this episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the theme of meddling is back and it looks like Violet is going to fix all the sad sacks this episode. Including Gomez, I hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the kitchen, Jimmy the Bad Guy got Ivy drunk at the pub. Surprise surprise. Alfred the Good Guy continues to suffer the fate of good guys throughout history. Too predictable. Too boring. Always there to help you when the bad guy gets you wasted and then leaves you in some random parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Bates and Anna flirt disgustingly. Get a room, guys, so we don't have to sit through your boring romance. Ugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose and Cora interview a new and mysterious lady’s maid. Yes, she seems great, but does she throw soap on the floor when soap needs throwing on the floor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molesley, the Saddest Man in the World, looks foolish at his covert job interview because, well, he’s the Saddest Man in the World. Seriously. Would it kill the writers to give him one day that doesn’t involve total humiliation? I know the actor's face sort of begs for it but really!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, Edith is wearing aqua now. Being the good sister suits her. I’m a bit distressed, however, to find out that her beau’s crazy wife’s name is Lizzy. Just to be clear: I’m no one’s institutionalized wife. That isn’t a twist at the end of all this. Oh, wait! Michael, the love interest is going to move himself and Edith to Germany?! Just in time for WWII? Don’t do it, Mike! Pick Greece!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Hughes doesn’t like this new lady’s maid, there must be something wonderfully sinister about her. I cannot wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truth: the fact that Mrs. Patmore sent Daisy a Valentine made me tear up a little. Those two just melt my cold, Lady Mary-esque heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, Edna the Lady’s Maid was the girl trying to hit on Branson? More draaaama! Stay strong, Branson!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, it looks like Nanny West actually was a horrible person. How can you call Sybbie a wicked half-breed? She’s the most perfect baby in the world. For the second time: I demand more baby Sybbie screen time!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez and Wednesday have a passive-aggressive off in the drawing room that ends with Wednesday apologizing to Carson for her bad behavior. One gets the feeling this isn’t the first time she’s abused and then apologized to old Carson. He’s clearly her spirit dad, since her biological dad is trying to force her into life-long mourning in order to steal her fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lady Mary arrives at a luncheon with the men and the Addams family disappears in a puff of a purple sweater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, there’s a letter from Gwen! I love Gwen! Bring Gwen back!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone commits mail fraud by opening Mary’s package of Matthew's belongings. Obviously it contains a will because like I said, he was really responsible. Lord Grantham continues to pretend he isn’t trying to steal money from his own child, but even his mother can see through him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Isobel’s house, the ladies continue to save Carson’s acting buddy, even though Carson won’t see him. What underlying issue is this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In town, Molesley is doing something very demeaning that looks like shoveling asphalt. This is what happens when you die, Matthew. 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I don’t care what Mystery said about \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=negging\" target=\"_blank\">negging\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meddling meddlers keep meddling. This time it’s Bates meddling for the Sad Panda’s benefit and Thomas meddling to Perfect Anna’s detriment and the Dowager Countess meddling on behalf of the whole world. “There can be too much truth in any relationship,” the Dowager says to Tom and Mary. Preach. Robert has shown us that he’s not capable of handling the truth. Maybe you should have been a better mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top-class meddler Isobel meets with some resistance to her Carson-based meddling and oh my god is this show still going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhere in London, Edith is amazed by a man who can boil water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary takes a car ride down a sun-dappled lane. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/04/08/mad-men-recap-suicide-is-painless-but-this-show-is-not/mad-men-hawaii-beach-megan-don-draper-jessica-pare-jon-hamm-11/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3672\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3672\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/mad-men-hawaii-beach-megan-don-draper-jessica-pare-jon-hamm-11.jpeg\" alt=\"mad-men-hawaii-beach-megan-don-draper-jessica-pare-jon-hamm-11\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/mad-men-hawaii-beach-megan-don-draper-jessica-pare-jon-hamm-11.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/mad-men-hawaii-beach-megan-don-draper-jessica-pare-jon-hamm-11-400x225.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I sit down to write about this episode, it seems appropriate that I hunch over, drink bourbon and smoke a cigarette and gaze narcissistically into a past about which I feel a great deal of existential angst, despite having my whole life ahead of me and every privilege in the modern world… So why is tonight different from any other night? Because it’s the premiere of \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>’s sixth season!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we begin I want to note that judging by the commercial breaks, Lincoln, for whom John Slattery did a \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE2lIBQn2KM\">cool commercial\u003c/a> a while ago, seems to have replaced Jaguar as the overly-intrusive main sponsor of \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>. The ways in which this show subverts its own product placement deserve an essay of their own, but I’ll say this: last season the fictionalized Jaguar company involved the SCDP agency in prostitution, and in a later episode, a Jaguar was almost used for suicide—until the car wouldn’t start. So good luck, Lincoln, you’re gonna need it if your products actually end up appearing on the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The episode, “The Doorway”, written by the show’s creator, Matthew Weiner, starts off with Don and Megan in Hawaii, with Don intoning a passage from the \u003cem>Inferno\u003c/em>, which he reads on the beach. Beyond the Dante allusion, there is a lot of heat and fire imagery in the sequence that follows, from Hawaiian fire dancing, tiki torches, and a pair of joints Megan scores. All that hellfire is juxtaposed with repeated reference to Hawaii as “paradise.” Look at my English major paying off, haters!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently Megan is recognizable from some soap opera now—“I can’t believe Victor won’t acknowledge you,” coos a fan who approaches her. Don meets a soldier about to get married before leaving for Vietnam. The soldier’s best man is passed out at the bar, and Don ends up serving in his stead as the couple get married on the beach. Megan finds Don and snaps a picture. Don later realizes he accidentally stole the soldier’s lighter, which has the soldier’s name on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole Hawaii sequence—from a master of ceremonies telling obnoxious jokes to the tourists for what feels like a long time, to the soldier bragging about killing water buffalo—made my skin crawl. Weiner, in his work on \u003cem>The Sopranos\u003c/em> as well as \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>, is great at this: showing the subtle horror of average lameness. Don’s aloof smirk is the only thing stopping these scenes from becoming pure “Look at these godawful people” and nothing more—but Don’s passivity also makes him complicit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at the Francis residence, Henry and Betty have apparently taken in a young orphan who hopes to study violin at Juilliard. Bobby Draper says the violin looks like a coffin. Last season laid on the ominous death vibes pretty thick, but this season seems to be taking it even further. In the next scene, Don witnesses a doorman called Jonesy having a heart attack, and a doctor named Arnold Rosen administers CPR. Rosen’s wife is played by former \u003cem>Freaks and Geeks\u003c/em> star Linda Cardellini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betty climbs into bed with her husband and commences saying SUPER HORRIFYING things about the young violinist, suggesting Henry “rape” her. I read this as a comment on present-day rape culture: the past year has brought a lot of ignorance about rape to light thanks to comments from Todd Akin and Tosh.0, to name a few, and it’s interesting to consider the idea that rape might have been spoken of as a mere kink, the way Betty talks about it here, more often in the late '60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betty then goes downstairs and has a conversation with the violinist, who didn’t get into Juilliard. Somehow this scene made me sympathize with Betty despite the disgusting monologue she just delivered—Betty, in her modeling days, lived in a packed apartment and ate soup out of cans, and the violinist, apparently now intent on moving to Greenwich Village and becoming a bohemian, is pretty arrogant. This is another thing the show is great at: I was raised to believe that the revolution of the '60s was purely altruistic and important, but I think it’s equally important that we view the squares with sympathy, and see how they stayed square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We check in with Peggy, whose awful boyfriend is now rocking a \u003ca href=\"http://home.gwi.net/~drrknrl/Images/fz70s.jpg\">Frank Zappa ‘stache\u003c/a>, and Roger, who is in therapy, but who mostly uses the psychiatric couch to joke—perhaps he should have been a standup comedian. Roger, who once said, “When God closes a door, he opens a dress,” gives the episode its title by discussing doorways in life, which “all close behind you.” His shrink is not amused, and the next scene parallels this moment, as Peggy is forced to endure a coworker’s stilted recounting of a late-night comedic monologue about American soldiers taking Vietnamese ears for trophies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A guy named Bob Benson is scheming hard to impress Don, even giving him an extra coffee he just happened to have on him. Ginsberg’s new mustache totally beats Peggy’s boyfriend’s. Peggy, convincing her client to give her time to figure out how to make a great ad, is in full glory-days-Don mode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Don, who once said that \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XXoxCjdfTY\">love is just a sentiment created by ad men like him\u003c/a>, is now upset at his firm’s and other agency’s “trivialization of the word.” One gets the feeling he has since learned love from Megan, and has already fallen out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don gives Dr. Arnold Rosen a camera in a drawn-out scene full of unusually boring banter. Sometimes this show errs too much on the side of dropping its audience into a trivial moment in its characters’ lives and forcing us to wait and find out the significance, if there is any, and this focus on Don and the doctor's cordial acquaintance is one such instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The halfway point of the two-hour special is saved, though, by Roger’s reaction to his mother’s death. Roger is characteristically hilarious throughout her funeral service—\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsw9jYU_rJI\">a Groucho Marx trapped in a world of Margaret Dumonts.\u003c/a> However, it’s clear he had been holding out for his mother to die for a long, long time. Roger’s psychiatrist’s question, “What exactly are you joking about?” becomes very relevant, especially when drunk Don vomits on the floor (at the mention of sunshine) and Roger notices his ex-wife’s plus-one. Roger yells, “This is MY FUNERAL!” and tries to kick everybody out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This episode placed a special emphasis on uncomfortable monologues: the hacky MC in Hawaii, Betty making rape jokes like a bad comedian herself, Roger’s Portnoy’s Complaint moment, the \"ears\" routine, and a vomit-inducingly trite eulogy by a friend of Roger’s mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drunk Don presses Jonesy about what happened “when he died.” (“I guess there was a light.” “Like a hot tropical sunshine?”) At this point there are so many commercial breaks that I start to wish \u003cem>I\u003c/em> was seeing the soft light of death myself. Betty goes to Greenwich Village to look for this girl, and again I sympathize with her—everyone in the squat Betty visits is a total creep. Megan’s character on the soap opera she’s on becomes villainous, and I really wish we could see the show, a la \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulSVBkaboK0\">“Invitation to Love” on \u003cem>Twin Peaks.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Greenwich Village subplot ends with Betty dyeing her hair for some reason. This is why they introduced that character and everything? I’m wrestling with what all this is supposed to mean, except that Betty is losing her marbles even more than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don pitches “Hawaii: The Jumping-Off Point”, an ad campaign that unintentionally reminds the Hawaii people of suicide. Don’s pitch and subsequent defense of it (“Heaven is kind of morbid”) is so bad my sister said it reminded her of “Nathan for You”, the new show in which comedian Nathan Fielder tries to sell terrible ideas to real businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s been over two hours and Don and Dr. Rosen are still just palling around pleasantly. They discuss—you guessed it—death, and then—you didn’t guess it—Dr. Rosen skis away in the snow on the street, and Don gets it on with Linda Cardellini, for what is clearly not the first time. The episode ended, and my sister, as devout a fan of the show as I am, said, \"What did any of that mean? Who were half of those people?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This episode reminded me of one of the best episodes of \u003cem>The Sopranos\u003c/em>, an episode Weiner has writing credit on. In it, Tony does something very, very bad, then goes to Las Vegas, where he is surrounded by hell imagery on the level of what we saw when Don was in Hawaii. Tony takes peyote in the desert and yells, “I get it! I get it!” What Tony “gets” seems to be that he can do whatever he wants without consequences. Don seems to have had an epiphany, too: at one point he says, “I had an experience. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole Hawaii sequence—from a master of ceremonies telling obnoxious jokes to the tourists for what feels like a long time, to the soldier bragging about killing water buffalo—made my skin crawl. Weiner, in his work on \u003cem>The Sopranos\u003c/em> as well as \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>, is great at this: showing the subtle horror of average lameness. Don’s aloof smirk is the only thing stopping these scenes from becoming pure “Look at these godawful people” and nothing more—but Don’s passivity also makes him complicit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at the Francis residence, Henry and Betty have apparently taken in a young orphan who hopes to study violin at Juilliard. Bobby Draper says the violin looks like a coffin. Last season laid on the ominous death vibes pretty thick, but this season seems to be taking it even further. 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