#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

[appreciate-your-bones]

Sometime I go through a period of kind of hating Thomas (right now it’s because I adore Baxter) but then he has an expression of the most potent and tragic early 20th century homosexual pining on his face and I remember that he’s everything actually

[emma-hahn]

Hello everyone!

I'm just here to say that first, yes I'm still alive (I have a hard time keeping up with all the socials at the moment sorry) but also that the podcast is coming back! I know it's been a year since last episode I'm really sorry about that but I'm ready to finish season 5.

I don't know if some people are still interested in this but the next episode will be out on Sunday.

Here are all the episodes I uploaded of season 5 so far :

S5 E01 - The one where the bedroom is on fire

S5 E02 - The one where some are being convinced

S5 E03 - The one full of surprises

S5 E04 - The one with the serious conversations

S5 E05 - The one with the beginnings and the ends

Thank you so much to anyone who once listened to an episode. It means a lot.

Have a nice day 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.

[clouds-of-wings]

They made Mary a lot nicer in season 6 than season 5 and I'm not entirely sure I like it. She's a bit too perfect when she's nice. Season 5 Mary only respected those who could make her respect them and was a little selfish and very status-aware. She took whatever she wanted, because she could, and she was haughty to those she considered beneath her. Morally, I hated the way she treated Edith in season 5 - their "rivalry" from the early seasons was one thing, but by season 5 Mary was such an established woman who was winning at life and Edith was the opposite. It seemed like Mary was just kicking down when she picked on Edith, who didn't even fight back. Not nice, but it made her character less perfect and less "standard", which was a good thing, in a way. Realistically, her change in attitude in season 6 reflects how much Edith has caught up in different areas of life and how Mary is the one who is feeling a little disoriented now. But her change in attitude was so sudden. I think the real reason might be that season 6 is the last season and the writers want us to remember the characters fondly. But I enjoyed watching Mary be a bit of an asshole tbh, given that she's fictional and all. We often see mean older women on TV. We never see what they were like when they were young. The writers could have made Mary become mean, but they seem to have decided to take her in a kinder direction.

Edit: Okay I did draft this while I was in the FIRST half of season 6 😅 Guess I got my wish later. In terms of staying true to the character I think it was the better choice, though my heart aches for Edith. I have 1 1/2 episodes to go and hope things work out...

[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??

[djedsspence]

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.

[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

[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.

[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)

[appreciate-your-bones]

My favorite version of Thomas is how he instantly becomes SO nice and helpful and concerned whenever there’s a new twink in his vicinity