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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Downton Abbey Season Three Episode Three Given Whom You Know's Highest Recommendation Our Coverage Sponsored by Paul Mayer Attitudes



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Here's Season Three Episode One which you ought to start with:
and then Episode Two:

SPOILER ALERT!

As you know, Peachy Deegan absolutely lives for Downton Abbey.  If she didn't have posts to write, people to see and things to do lined up, she would watch all three seasons on repeat sipping a spot of tea and be quite blissfully happy, turning off her phone and computer, because nothing is more important than this series.  Now every Sunday night on PBS you can see never-seen-before episodes in America of Season Three, and we suspect during these winter doldrums this is a clearcut highlight for you, too.

Our beloved Dowager Countess sagely says: "No family is ever what it seems from the outside." and boy is she right both in real life and in Downton Abbey (which we would not complain about if it became our real life)...Branson is beyond idiotic.
So what do we love about Episode Three Season Three?  Let us count the ways.  We love that Lady Edith is compelled to join our unofficial club of ladies that write in newspapers, and we love her enthusiasm, previously displayed by Lady Sybil of course, for the right to vote for women.  We love Mrs. Hughes's simple happiness she finds in that new innovation, the toaster.  We even burnt our toast on purpose to match her and make our viewing experience more authentic.  Daisy has a lovely agricultural experience with her newfound family and every female alive will be thrilled to meet the new footman James-get your Valentines ready.

What distresses us?  This is a drama, after all!  Anna and Bates are not communicating-sheer heartbreak so yes, you might need not one but two cups of tea to sooth your nerves.  Or perhaps just break out the whiskey.  What else?  Who's going to the doctor for "hay fever?"  Who seeks Isobel's help?  And most upsetting of all who is running around in the rain in the dark of night!!!
And what to do with all those spoons-egg, tea, melon, soup, jam, bouillion-Peachy has never been a maid or a footman so don't expect her to get it right....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_setting but perhaps you can help the new footman?  We bet Thomas would be just delighted to...(sinister music plays).  Thomas, Carson would have helped you if you asked for help, silly.

Do Join Downton Abbey is PEACHY

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