#downton abbey season 5

[emcgoverns]

elizabeth mcgovern as cora crawley, countess of grantham (with hugh bonneville as robert crawley, earl of grantham) in season 5, episode 9 of “downton abbey” (december 2014) | 🎥: dir. minkie spiro

[impressions-of-downton]

~A Nearly* Comprehensive Guide To Thomas’ Hairstyles Throughout The Series ~

* Note: This does not contain anything about the new movie, as the first had only just come out when I drew this.

[infinity2020corner]

A fun moodboard I made for Thomas & Phyllis in S5 E9: A Moorland Holiday

[cowes]

u think downton abbey is just kinda ridiculous soap opera period drama and then they have the thomas-chemical-castration and the edith-marigold-drewe situations BACK TO BACK. have we not suffered??? WHAT THE FUCK

[emma-hahn]

Hello everyone !

It’s been a long time coming (<— read this with Taylor Swift’s voice)

Shall We Go Through? is back ! It’s time (finally) to start season 5. All the episodes have been recorded so it should be plain sailing (I mean it should but you know, life’s like a box of chocolates)

Here is episode 1 ! Where we celebrate Cobert’s wedding anniversary

Shall We Go Through ? S5 E01 - The one where the bedroom is on fire

Aren’t they the cutest ? Yes they are (and let’s enjoy cute Cobert and romantic Robert because angst is coming)

Hope you’ll enjoy it !

Have a nice day, stay safe and take care.

[thecrownnet]

Jim Carter with wife Imelda Staunton and their dog Molly in the garden of their London home. Photo: Andrew Crowley/Geoff Pugh/The Telegraph

Although I only live seven stops from Westminster on the Jubilee Line, I’m lucky enough to have a garden, and spending time in it with my wife [Imelda Staunton, currently starring as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown] is one of the major pleasures in life.

-Jim Carter interview: ‘Children need to put their phones away and get out into the garden’ The Downton Abbey actor reveals why he is campaigning for gardening to be added to the national curriculum, The Telegraph Sept 16, 2023

*Carter and Staunton are  patrons of Greenfingers, a children’s hospice garden charity.

[eolewyn1010]

Mary Crawley. Has just said that something her sister Edith has decided. Is "a good idea". As in, sincerely.

. . .

What is happening? Is this Judgement day? Are there flying pigs outside?? Can someone please go check if hell has frozen over??

[gaym3bo1]

it's bad my dudes, i'm watching not me and mentally comparing the characters to downton abbey characters, i've lost it

[sophieebridgerton]

absolutely wild of them to title a video “Mary and Matthew True Love NEVER Dies” because sure true love may never die but I know someone who does

[juliasdowntonstuff]

We're all right… aren't we, Robert? pt. 2

This is it, the second part of my infidelity-storyline drabble, out on ff and ao3. Massive thanks go out to @emma-hahn and @stormbravr who kept helping me whenever I was stuck on something.

The book she was holding in her hands was opened. She had not got far, not yet. She was stuck on page 7, to be precise. And it had been opened on that exact same yellowed page for about ten minutes now, if not longer. Not a single word had registered with her, not even when her eyes had actively been focused on the words printed in black on the page before. Heaving quite a theatrical sigh, her hands sunk into her lap, letting go of the weighty tome she had chosen to take to bed with her from the library that night.

She looked around.

Her bedroom, usually so warm and comforting, so familiar. Yet it all felt wrong, she was not comfortable, she was not at ease. Chills were running down her spine, even despite the fire crackling away in the hearth not far to her right. Her hands were fiddling with the edges of the duvet covering her and she could not seem to be able to stop.

Her head turned to her left, turned to look where he should be lying. But the left side of her bed was empty, his absence from the room obvious. Glaringly so. Even his pillows were missing. Behaving like the petulant child he sometimes was, he had come to this room the evening after it had happened. He had not said a single word, he had not even so much as looked at her. Instead, he had walked in, snatched the two white pillows from his side of the bed and exited as quickly as he had entered. And he had stayed away ever since.

This was ridiculous.

She was not faultless in any of this, far from it. She was aware of that fact, painfully much so. But it was still ridiculous nonetheless.

Robert avoided her. He had ever since he had come home and found that man standing in her bedroom, attempting to punch the living daylights out of him. No matter how often she had tried to reassure him since that night that nothing had happened before he had entered and that nothing would have happened had he not come home, he always blocked any and all of her efforts toward reconciliation — or even just having a normal conversation, not even just an argument. The conversation after they had finally received confirmation of Michael Gregson's unfortunate end had been by far the longest one since and it had lasted all of 2 minutes, if even that. And the majority of it had felt as if they were having two separate conversations entirely.

Things had been going awry between them for months before, what she had taken to calling, the incident. They hadn't talked as much, he certainly had not confided in her as much as he used to, and she had felt alone, discarded. She had not been wrong in indulging Bricker's interest in the painting and going to the galleries with him. The dinner at the Ritz? Maybe. But the rest — certainly not.

Yet, she regretted all of it. Bitterly.

Now, in hindsight, it was all too clear that this was what that man had always intended when he kept coming back again and again; and she had encouraged it without realising. Or hadn't she? No, a part of her had recognised what he had hoped his efforts would amount to, but she never would have thought he would act on them. How wrong she had been. How could she misjudge the situation like that?

But then, so had Robert. He had no right to be behaving as sulky and petulant as he was at the moment, no right at all. After all, she had forgiven him all those years ago. And why? Because she loved him and she knew that he loved her. She never questioned that. Why shouldn't she be awarded the same courtesy from him? Even just being granted the benefit of the doubt — she would be alright if he offered her just that. But no. Robert was too pigheaded, too stubborn, and far too childish to see things from another's perspective. Her husband would not be able to see reason by himself.

Huffing angrily, she threw off the blanket and swung her legs out of the bed. Putting on her slippers and nightgown, she took the few steps across her room and opened the door to his dressing room without much hesitation.

[torchwood-99]

I always think I'm passed the Team Edith/Team Mary war, but it pops into my head (every time I see a Mary stan on twitter wail about Edith) that Mary ended the season humbled by Edith, married to a guy she has no chemistry with, nothing in common with, who by the second film would rather be racing abroad than with her, her best friend has left to get married, and her consolation is her work an an estate is is constantly in financial crisis.

It's not a "bad" ending, she's happy enough and has got good things in her life, but it's not glorious or a victory for her.

Don't have to go on about what Edith has. Not only a husband who adores her, after a life of always being pushed aside and denied affection, she has a great big castle and a stinking fortune, and she has a career of her own, independent of her husband, and a banging London flat to work from. And her title outranks everyone else's in the family.

Damn, no wonder Mary fans are still bitter to this day.

[emcgoverns]

elizabeth mcgovern as cora crawley, countess of grantham (with hugh bonneville as robert crawley, earl of grantham, maggie smith as violet crawley, & penelope wilton as isobel crawley) in season 5, episode 6 of “downton abbey” (october 2014) | 🎥: dir. philip john

[the-stray-liger]

me liking downton abbey is so out of character? I usually need like a murder or explosions to care about a piece of media, I hate drama

[autogeneratedkahootnickname]

(Extending on option 10) and I love that for you (but please explain why in the comments)

[thebetterluthor]

Bit behind on my Christmas Downton Abbey rewatch, yet still hating on Edith with a passion.

New detail I hadn't noticed before: After she displaces the child she gave birth to for the second time, she tells the farmer she burdens with an extra mouth to feed (even though he is a poor man and already has children of his own) that she'll give him some money for the first month, ALTHOUGH HE SHOULDN'T NEED MUCH BECAUSE THEY ALREADY HAVE ALL THEY NEED FROM HIS PREVIOUS BABIES.

This cheap ass idiot hands over the baby she gave birth to to these people, to care for and raise as one of their own, but doesn't want to even give them some extra money to buy baby things.

I'll be hating Edith Crawley forever. She's a selfish, worthless idiot and I cannot believe she survived the entire show.

[emma-hahn]

Hello hello !

The new episode is a bit late, I struggled with my internet connection and the days have been hectic but it’s here :

Shall We Go Through ? S5 E03 - The one full of surprises

I love this episode especially the Cobert scenes and especially the one in London, very angsty I know but I love it.

Cora being pretty as always and Bricker being very interested in Cora. Can’t blame him tho, same Bricker, same.

Stay safe and take care !