As the Bob Dylan song says: The times, they are a-changin'. And even though it’s presented in a traditional backdrop of horse races and elegant dinners, those changes aren’t limited to Mary’s haircut.
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Rachel - Longtime Downton Fan
My reaction to these episodes is the same as Lady Mary’s during the dress show: Yummy!
But it’s not just the excellent fashion (which it always is on
Downton Abbey, but a 1920s fashion show only heightens the sartorial appeal), it’s the intrigue. It’s the new loves, broken hearts, and a world that keeps on going into a new, uncertain future that various members of the household, both upstairs and down, either decide to embrace or resist.
Caption Mabel Lane Fox is not amused.
As far as broken hearts go, there are several to note in these episodes. Finally, Mary makes her choice and breaks it off with Lord Gillingham, but not before Charles Blake has his say about how to rectify the resulting drama by bringing Tony’s previous lover, Mabel Lane Fox, into the mix. As expected, Mabel and Mary get on like oil and water, but it sets the stage for next week’s horse racing episode. Unlike Lavinia in Season 2, Mabel is shar
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Published January 03. 2021 12:01AM
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Catherine Steadman’s second career was born on an impossibly hot day in the desert. “All I could think of,” she said, “was the sea.”
An actor best known to American audiences as insouciant heiress Mabel Lane Fox on Season 5 of “Downton Abbey,” Steadman was filming the television series “Tutankhamun” in Namibia several years ago in full Victorian costume, complete with corset. “It was just boiling,” she said, in a telephone interview from her London home. “I thought about going swimming, being by the sea, a cool breeze. I starting thinking about what plot you could get around that setting, if you wanted to read a book.”
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