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vanityfair:

It’s declared that the war is OVER! Vera Bates is dead! And the Giants win the Super Bowl! As the clock in the Great Hall tolls, everybody gathers for a moment of silence. But for whom does the bell toll, readers? The bell tolls for Matthew, who is angry about Lavinia’s return, and who feels a strange tingle in his… well, we can’t be sure what he feels, or to which damaged appendage it sources. But something somewhere is tingling! Could properness be afoot?

Downton Abbey, Season Two, Episode Five—in which Edith falls for Sloth from Goonies!—recapped here. Enjoy over lunch!

If you aren’t watching Downton Abbey, you should be.  It’s all sorts of amazing. 

“I say… is this an instrument of communication or torture?”

- Dowager Countess (a.k.a. Granny)

This woman.  She’s too much.  I was totally routing for her to win the SAG she was nominated for last night.

I was in the mood for a good cry yesterday, so late in the afternoon I watched ‘An Affair to Remember’ knowing it would get the tears rolling…

I HAD NO IDEA I WAS IN FOR ANOTHER FLOOD OF TEARS LAST NIGHT WHEN I WATCHED DOWNTON!!!  Cried like a baby when this moment happened.

“Looks like he doesn’t need any of us anymore…” 

[wahhhhhhhhh] 

vanityfair:

“It’s doing nothing that’s the enemy,” says an apple-cheeked Lady Sybil, the picture of wartime efficiency in her nurse’s uniform, billowing a starched sheet to the vaulted ceilings of Downton. She’s speaking to all-thumbs Lady Edith, who is inspecting the new string of dormitory beds like they’re a row of post-hunt pheasants, seeping gizzards on the lawn. In the summer-set span of this episode, Downton has fully transformed into a convalescent home for recuperating officers, which, it’s soon revealed, hasboth human-resources and interior-decorating implications.”

For more recap of Season Two, Episode Two, go here.

Lavinia! Do I look like a doily? Courtesy Masterpiece on PBS.

If you’re a Downton fan, do yourself a favor and read this hilarious recap from VF! 

(Source: downtonabbeylamps)