Downton Abbey (TV Series) Episode #5.7 (2014) User Reviews

Lady Edith

[jpismyname · 9/10 · 8 January 2018]

Violet disapproves of Isobel's engagement to Lord Merton. She reveals why. She doesn't want to lose a friend, a companion after all. It's really nice, to see a sweet side of the Dowager Countess. Her friendship with Isobel was impossible at first, but now they are like, in modern terms, BFFs.

So anyway, Edith runs away with her daughter Marigold. Violet and Rosamund have no choice but to tell Cora the truth. Cora is angry of course, but she brings Edith home and convinces her to pretend that she will adopt Marigold, an orphaned daughter of a farmer. Edith, I'm always waiting for an episode that you'll be happy.

Really Good Episode

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 31 August 2020]

How sad that everyone is constantly walking on eggshells. First of all, the continuing tiresome focus on Mary who has turned into the most vile, insensitive, snob (well, she had a good start!). Those two clucks who keep showing up at Downton are really sickening. Rose is about to be submerged in anti-semitism. Violet and Isobel are having a hard time with their futures. There is another horrible scene at the dinner table from one of the most detestable people that has reared his head (actually, he has done this before). It would appear that Isis is on her last legs. And, once again, Edith is mistreated as she tries to deal with all the pain. I think the 8th episode will be a real treat.

"Poooooor Edith"

[durvall00 · 8/10 · 5 November 2014]

We need to see Lady Edith's capabilities. We know she has good ones, but they are rarely shown. The Marigold Issue would have more substance if it was tied with it.

Lady Mary is in a quest to find a marriage bounded with love, and the more she "researches", the more she refuses. And in this episode she finally tosses the latter try out. I hope Blake's departure isn't one like Gregson's. It's a bad time to be in Poland, you know. Kinda... Ship them, to be sincere.

Violet Crawley sees herself losing grip with the before-unlikely-friendship with Lady Isobel Crawley, I mean, Isobel bloody Merton. Dr. Clarkson seemed the obvious choice, Isobel had the practice of nursing, a very exciting direction, and it's sad too see her incline for a generic Lord. Yeah, I'm fond of him too, but wouldn't you prefer the understanding Dr. Clarkson? "Harsh reality is always better than false hope."

And in the kitchens a star shines: go, Daisy, go! She grew such a potential in this season, going from a kitchen maid that only blushed with romantics aspirations from a avid thinker. "Education is power". People around her will never let her give up. Mr. Mosley deserves more good things in his life; he is pure in his doings, ingenuous, almost in a child-like manner. I'm already missing Mrs. Bunting, for both Daisy's party and from Tom's love-sh-arc.

Oh, Spratt. Is more than expected from DA to give life and sub-plots simple butlers- and other servants- , keeping things rich and dynamic.

Isis and Edith, the first getting more attention the the latter. With real problems and a destroyed heart, "poooooor Edith" - as Cora would say - consumes herself with the only thing that matters: Love.

Everybody's problems are being crossed; by accidents or by will. I love this kind of development because forces the characters to interact in other levels. But the episode goes everywhere and at the same time nowhere. Was a good one, some emotion spikes here and there, but no conclusions of sorts. Each little sub-plot is dragging, waiting to some big event to make them explode. But I don't care. I can watch them having dinner all day and I would still be pleased.

R.I.P Isis.

Poor Edith can't have a happy moment

[enasaljammal · 9/10 · 12 March 2022]

This show gets better with every episode and every issue discussed : classism , racism , homophobia , Antisemitism and misogyny

Regarding the plot , I have grown to hate Marry so much they built her to be so snobby , self centered and lacking any empathy for others especially Edith ( who seems harmless and always living in marry's shadows)

Oh pooor Edith , I don't understand why the writers are so unfair to her . She can't seem to catch a break , spiraling from one tragedy to the next , watching her story is so heartbreaking .I hope she has a fair and happy ending.

Well Done

[moviesfilmsreviewsinc · 10/10 · 14 May 2022]

Mary has been trying to rid herself of fiancé Tony but he just cannot take the hint. This is the problem with being with someone who loves you in a cold and unfeeling way; you never truly know when it's over. Of course, it doesn't make it any easier when the man you keep trying to dump keeps getting invited to stay for house party weekends at your manor to see the very large elephant on exhibit in the room. Lord Tiger cannot understand why others get married and married and married and he and potential serial killer Mabel Lane Fox never get carried away. She suggests that if only he'd stop howling at the moonlight, maybe they'd stand a chance. For his part, Lord Tiger does seem to have moved from anger to acceptance, but insists he cannot break it off with Mary, as much as he wants too, and he is too honorable to say why (hint, hint). Now that they've done the deed (oops, did he say that?), only Mary can end it (the fact that she already did seems to have escaped him) and he is not convinced she meant it anyway. With the Aldridges at Downton to dine, anti-Semitism is only alluded to in a genteel sort of way. We don't actually get a taste of what they are up against until Lord Merton's boys make an appearance the following evening. For now, there are merely hints about the county having to get used to them. It is 1924 and the world is a more segregated place so it is pretty certain the neighbors had issues when Jews moved into their midst - especially successful ones. In that same era, 1923, my grandparents left the city (Philly), to move to the suburbs. Their three bedroom house was hardly a grand estate. Yet some of their lovely, new neighbors started a petition in an attempt to force them out. In the land whose most celebrated playwright gave us Shylock, there is a long, bloody history of anti-Semitism as well. And speaking of plain sailing ... Robert and Cora are back to loving each other and speaking in hieroglyphic valentines, with nary a word about the whole Bricker Incident. Lord Labrador attributes it to the old girl not having been herself for a few weeks, but now she's perked up and it's forgotten about. The only remnant is a ban on orange marmalade at breakfast. It would have been interesting to see a follow-up to that dressing room scene, where we see Cora and Robert have a talk that peels back the layers of their relationship.