Downton Abbey Recap: Everyone is happy and gets what they want after playing a game of cricket in episode 6

By Randi Bergman and Paige Dzenis

Oh, PBS problems: First, North America has to wait four months after Downtown Abbey airs in the UK to watch the third season legally. Then we’re randomly forced to watch the season in super quick doses when PBS schedules two hour-long episodes back-to-back as one mega episode. Such was the case last night, when we went from discussions of christening into gossip about cricket. There was plenty of drama to keep us entertained throughout the 120 minute run of the penultimate episode, with the introduction of new characters, possible persecutions and many an evil plot in action. (How evil, you ask? Let’s just say “her ladyship’s soap” is all you need to know…) Read on for our full recap of episode “six”

Best use of a map:
If you’re going to own an estate-slash-small village, we can’t think of a better way to spend an afternoon than looming over a giant map of said estate with a drink in hand. Well done, Mary, Matthew and Branson!

Best return of a minor character:
Mosley! From your chuckle and “doesn’t seem like nothing!”comment when everyone’s curious about what transpired between Thomas, Jimmy and Alfred to your obsession with cricket, it was nice to see that while you haven’t been around this season, you really haven’t changed.

Best allusion to Elizabeth Taylor:
Lest we forget that Mary is grande dame in training for even a moment, she’ll remind us. When Branson worries that his gruff brother wont fit in at the Abbey because he’s a “rough diamond,” Mary responds, “I love diamonds.”

Best compliment:
Branson’s brother proved to be the biggest nothing of a new character, aside from his arrival finally earning Branson some props from Carson: “I thought his respect for her ladyship’s invitation was exemplary!”

Just when things were looking up for Edith:
She goes and gets herself Jane Eyre’d. At least this development didn’t happen at the altar?

Best Edith episode in history:
While we admit that the bar isn’t set too high where Edith is concerned but my my are we impressed by her this episode. Wearing two of her finest outfits to date (turquoise, what that hue can do!), she manages to shuffle about London and capture the heart of a handsome, powerful and Rochester-esque editor (the wife in the asylum, the Fassbender jawline). Here’s hoping for a makeout sesh way more satisfying than hers with John Drake the farmer.

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