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# Fug the Show: Downton Abbey Recap, Season 5, episode 2
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-the-show-downton-abbey-recap-season-5-episode-2/
- Published: 2015-01-14T19:00:18.000Z
- Updated: 2015-01-16T19:31:04.000Z
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:41

## Downton Suspicions

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So remember last week when Edith -- WHOOPSIE -- almost set the entire place ablaze as she, in a fit of sobbing over her dead/proto-Nazi baby daddy, tossed a German book into her fire and it nearly exploded and she had to be carried to safety by Thomas, in his One Good Deed for the season? Well, Mrs Hughes and Anna are cleaning up and -- as predicted by one of you -- Mrs Hughes finds the picture of Marigold under Edith's pillow and makes a face that says, "Aw, shit. Another psychosexual palaver I'm going to have to try to set to rights between dinner and tea. OH EDITH."

## Downton Batsman

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Meanwhile, The Committee for The Creation of War Memorials And Continued Planned Obsolescence of Lord Grantham embarks upon this whole C Plot which I shall run down now: They want to put said memorial in the cricket field (which is a TERRIBLE idea; people still need to play cricket despite the war, and perhaps even more than before. Normalcy, something to look forward to, wholesome exercise, etc), but Lord G wants to put it in the town square for a variety of pretty good reasons. Etc etc etc etc, Lord G eventually prevails, but only because A Sad Villager tells Carson a moving story of how really super convenient it is for her family that they can walk right past her dead husband's grave when they're popping out to the shops. Lord G is all, "NOT SO DUMB AFTER ALL AM I?" except in an actually very nice way as, for once, he is proven right.

## Downton Bromance

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So, remember how Jimmy got fired because Lord G caught him nailing Lady Ansthruter when he was just trying to save them both from a fiery fiery death? This is his farewell speech, and it's basically "I LOVE YOU, THOMAS, BUT NOT IN A GAY WAY." And Thomas is like, "I LOVE YOU TOO AND NOT IN A GAY WAY EITHER EXCEPT JUST A LITTLE BIT, BECAUSE YOU'RE HOT AND I ACTUALLY AM GAY."

I admit that I did say the words, "oh, JUST MAKE OUT" to the TV at one point during this farewell. I also must admit that I say those words to my TV a lot.

## Downton Dirty Looks

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In which Edith says she feels like "such an idiot" for almost burning down their priceless ancestral home and Mary points out that this is because she behaved like an idiot, and Cora just rolls her eyes. I wish Cora would sit them down and say, "Mary, I know Edith tried to ruin you utterly by telling the truth about that time you killed a handsome Turkish man with your vagina. But she got left at the altar by an old man with freakishly large teeth and her next boyfriend is currently being indoctrinated into the philosophy that will become Nazism and we don't know if he's going to embrace it and become a villain or reject it heroically. CAN'T WE CALL IT EVEN?"

This scene also give us the following intel: England is overrun with formerly rich aristocratic Russians, following The Revolution (or rather, by this point, I suppose they're into the full-on Russian Civil War), which is going to give Tom and Lord G plenty of things to tut about, at odds. Additionally, Rose really wants a wireless. Eventually she gets one, because Lord G likes getting to hear the King speak. THE END. That's literally Rose's entire point this week.

## Downton COME ON EDITH

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And speaking of Edith, I hope this doesn't shock you, but this whole Baby With The Pig Farmer thing is turning into A TOTAL DISASTER. Pig Farmer is figuring out a way to give Edith her daughter back -- she's going to "take an interest" and "be a godmother to" Marigold, and have her up to the house and pay for her education -- but he hasn't told Mrs Pig Farmer ANY OF THIS, and Mrs Pig Farmer clearly loves Marigold and thinks of her as her own, AS WOULD ANY KIND, FEELING PERSON WHO HAS ADOPTED A CHILD, and so this whole time she keeps looking at Pig Farmer like, "WHY ARE YOU GIVING MY CHILD TO THIS WOMAN?"

I seriously think Pig Farmer is the WORST PERSON ON THIS SHOW, you guys. You talk your wife into taking in a child, telling her NOTHING about how you know this child or any details, and then when she is bonded with the kid, you SNATCH THE CHILD AWAY AND BASICALLY GIVE HER TO A RICH LADY. WHAT. That is MONSTROUS to his family. And Mrs Pig Farmer doesn't seem dumb, so she's obviously going to figure this out and she might well blow the whistle on the whole thing because she's pissed about how poorly she (and the rest of her kids, who Edith ignores) have been treated. I hope she leaves him and takes the kids and moves to London where she opens a successful tea shop and marries a kind and handsome widower who always tells her the complete background of any foundling child he may happen to bring home.

## Downton POOR EDITH

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Edith of course sees nothing wrong with any of this plan. OH EDITH. I hate that your Black Watch plaid has to bear witness to any of this. I like to think of me and Kate Middleton (who William said recently forces him -- "forces," I'M SO SURE WILLS, YOU KNOW YOU CRIED WHEN SYBIL DIED -- to watch) both shaking our heads over the injustice of seeing such a lovely coat embroiled in SUCH A STUPID PLAN.

## Downton Matchmaker

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So now Violet is trying to smash Isobel back together with Dr Clarkson and, as you can imagine, the entire undertaking is rife with side-eye and dirty looks between the ladies.

## Downton Side Eye

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Like this one. PS, Isobel: I LOVE YOU and your hat and that great tea cup!

Anyhoodle, Dr Clarkson and Isobel are banging on about the discovery of insulin and Violet notes that it's nice to see Isobel back to her old BORING interests (implied) after she's been lately so distracted by Lord Merton "frisking around her skirts." And I just have a few things to say about that:

A) We're all to bring back the phrase, "he's been frisking around her skirts."

B) Making Dr Clarkson jealous is a classic move. WELL PLAYED, VIOLET. You are a puppetmaster *par excellance.*

C) Isobel is like SHUT UP VIOLET WHAT ARE YOU DOOOOOOING? in the most deliciously subtle way, and I swear, these two could sincerely do an entire scene with just facial expressions and no lines.

## Downton Blackmail

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This old plot will NEVER END. Let's cut to the chase: Thomas is still being a jackass about Baxter's Jewel Thieving Past and eventually tells Molesley the whole story, and it shakes him to his wobbly core. Molesley -- like everyone else who's heard the story, including the audience -- is like, "but this is some Jean Valjean thing, right? You were stealing to feed poor children? You are the Robin Hood of ladies' maids!" and Baxter doesn't say yes but she doesn't say no -- there is OBVIOUSLY more to the story that I guess we will see eventually -- but she ends up telling him, basically, "I did some terrible things, but I'm not that person anymore. It's up to you to decide if you can deal with it or not." My assumption is that he shall choose to deal with it.

## Downton Downstairs

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Nothing happens here beyond Lady Rose wearing this AMAZING gown and agreeing to arrange for Sarah Bunting: Sanctimonious Loudmouth to tutor Daisy in maths.

## Downton Birth Control!

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And Mary has told her parents that she's going on "a drawing trip" with a friend -- I AM SO SURE -- but she's really going off to hole up in a hotel with Gillingham to see if she can manage to nail a dude without him then tragically expiring in some cinematic way, and also for fun. Anna is advising MUCH CAUTION about this, but Mary basically just wants her to get over it and go into the village and buy Mary a diaphragm (she can't do it herself, because people will recognize her, and also because Anna is married, and it's therefore more socially acceptable for her to be Controlling Birth).

I love scenes with these two. Anna's response when she realizes that Mary's saying she has to make sure she doesn't get pregnant is brilliant -- Joanne Froggatt's "OH. Mygod" reaction is worth another Golden Globe -- and Mary is so matter-of-fact. Like when Anna wonders whether one ought to assume the man will bring the birth control, and Mary says, "I don't think one should rely on a man in that department, do you?" as cool as you please. Mary, you feminist vixen, I love you.

(I also enjoyed that Mary had a copy of *Married Life* by Mary Stopes, which is of course [the book that Psychotic Edna had in her possession and which Mrs Hughes used against her to turn her out of the house last season.](https://www.gofugyourself.com/fug-the-show-downton-abbey-season-4-episode-3-01-2014/img%5F4863-2?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) That's a nice subtle callback and I hope it's the same copy.)

## Downton Cora

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I just thought this dress was pretty.

## Downton Misguided Belts

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"Hey, guys, I know I've been incredibly squirrelly and weird for months and months and months and disappeared to a foreign country for a very specific period of time and came back thinner and sadder and I've been acting really strange about the Pig Farmer? Well, I'm going to kind of adopt this child they've taken in, isn't that a great and non-suspicious idea???!"

And Lord G is is seriously like, "well, as long as you don't get bored!" Seriously, even Rose is like, FULLY SIDE-EYING this entire thing over the top of her newspaper, but no one else seems to be adding one and one to get OMG EDITH HAD A SECRET BABY THAT SHE GAVE TO THE PIG FARMER.

## Downton ARE YOU DOING IT OR WHAT?

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And these two are in a fight over the best place to put the War Memorial, and Carson hates it when they don't get along and Mrs Hughes is all a-twitter and fluttery with him and, listen, you guys, I just need to know: HAVE YOU OR HAVE YOU NOT DONE IT?

## Downton Insert Shots

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Speaking of Doing It, Poor Anna totally wants to DIE, buying this diaphragm for Lady Mary, and she basically has to make up a whole story so that it doesn't feel tawdry -- the pharmacist was like, "HAVE YOU TRIED ABSTINENCE?" which is absurd to say to a MARRIED PERSON -- and she eventually goes with the idea that she can't risk her health with a pregnancy (AKA The Melanie Wilkes). Although I loved the bit when the pharmacist yells after Anna that "they can be very difficult to manage" when she leaves without getting instructions (and the look on Anna's face basically said, "Mary can just shove it up there and figure it out herself"), I think my favorite part of the whole thing was when Anna came home and was like, "THAT WAS RIDICULOUS. Why SHOULDN'T I get to buy birth control if I want it?"

I am sure this is all going to come together in some way when someone reports having seen her or SOMETHING to Bates and he gets all butthurt that she's secretly trying to prevent having the fruit of his loins and then she'll reveal that she actually IS pregnant -- this is 100% speculation NO SPOILERS -- but I enjoyed her righteous indigence nevertheless.

## Downton's Answer to Thelma and Louise

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These two have popped over to Lord Merton's for tea and flirtation and eye-rolling and brilliantly dirty looks and hats. Violet's look here is particularly hilariously long-suffering.

## Downton's Country Cousin

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HIDEOUS.

## Downton DOUBT

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And, inside, Lord Merton is FULLY FLIRTATIOUS with Isobel, and Isobel and Violet spend the entire tea giving each other Meaningful And Occasionally Enraged Glances.

## Downton Walk and Talk

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BATES: So WHY is Mary going off on her own? She's not going to MURDER ANYONE, IS SHE?!?!

ANNA: No, that's just you, as far as i suspect. It's...there's...you know....reasons. She is... having...it's.....

\[*The shared glance of a married couple that says, "I might tell you when we get home."*\]

And say what you will about Bates. He might be a murderer. He's been to prison. He's a forger, and a pickpocket. He's got a limp that comes and goes suspiciously. But he would not bring home a random baby to Anna, tell her to raise it, and then take it away. THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING.

## Downton's Salute to Amal Clooney

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In which Lord G actually notes to Cora that Edith obviously wants to take in Marigold because Gregson is probably dead, and it's awful, and she's miserable, and she has to watch her sisters' children gambol about the house. (Of course, each of those children is missing a parent as well, so it's not like everyone else is having the best time either.) He then worries about what will happen to Marigold when "Edith has a child of her own" and I swear, Cora was like, "eh, like that's ever going to happen." Cora, I love your velvet sleeves here, but I honestly wish you'd take more of an interest!

## Downton Artwork

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In which we meet Richard E Grant as Mr Bricker, an art historian there at the house to look for their missing Gutenberg Bible. I'M KIDDING. Everyone's wholly forgotten about that old thing! He's there to look at some of their OTHER priceless pieces of art that they technically could have sold at some point, and also to flirt with Cora, to Robert's dismay, and EVEN WORSE, TO FLIRT WITH ISIS, to Robert's TOWERING RAGE. (I think your rage about the latter might be just some transference vis a vis the former, Lord G, but I shall keep that to myself.)

## Downton Blake FINALLY

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Mr Bricker, it seems, is a friend of one MR BLAKE, lover of children, finagler of pigs. And our reunion with him is SO UNSATISFYING. He's sort of like, "So, I guess it's Gillingham then?" and Mary's kind of like, "whatever, I guess, I don't know," and it's totally irritating. Blake and Mary have MUCH better chemistry than Mary and Gillingham and frankly I am just waiting for Matthew NO SPOILERS Goode to arrive, but while we're waiting, at the very least Mary ought to let Blake frisk around her skirts as well.

## Downton STFU

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In an oversight on my part, I neglected to take any photos of Sarah Bunting: Irritating Bluestocking in her new gig at Downton, tutoring Daisy in math. (Daisy is picking it up nicely. I kind of hope Daisy leaves Downton to become a successful lady accountant. If you watched the \[WHOLLY CHARMING\] "Manners of Downton" special, Sophie McShera is SO CUTE on it, and notes that she thinks Daisy makes such bad man choices because she never gets to leave Downton and all her options there are TERRIBLE. So I hope for Daisy that she eventually gets to go out in the world where there are better dudes on the menu AND a fulfilling mathematical career.) ANYWAY. Here, Branson is walking Sarah Bunting: Aggravating Buzzkill to a car to get a ride back to the village -- she has turned down a dinner invite, wisely --and she is telling him that Downton has washed all the Revolutionary Color out of him, or something, and my only question is: Sarah Bunting: Argumentative Flapjack HAS a car. She met Branson when it broke down. WHITHER SARAH BUNTING: PRICKLY HEAT'S OWN CAR?

Also, her speech leads to Tom arguing with Lord G about the Russian Revolution at the dinner table, but, on the plus side, her very *existence* led to Lord G calling her a "tinpot Rosa Luxemburg," which is kind of great. As was Cora then explaining to Rose that Rosa Luxemburg was "a Communist who was shot and thrown into the canal." She then theorizes that they wouldn't wish that on Miss Bunting and Lord G makes the most divine, "well, MAYBE" grunt. Hugh Bonneville is very subtly funny in this episode. Including when he's railing against an imagined scenario in which Sarah Bunting: Arse Pain drags Tom off to America, and Sybie is "brought up by some harpy in an AMERICAN SEWER!!!!"

## Downton Beading

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Rose looks so pretty here.

## Downton Flirtations

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But it may not surprise you to know that in the course of the aforementioned huge argument about Russian Revolutionaries at the dining table, Carson almost has a stroke when Branson notes that the English themselves killed Charles I, and then everyone else is like, "why is it always so awkward over appetizers here anymore?"

## Downton Water Treading

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"Good night, Baxter. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely fire you for being a jewel thief in the morning. "

## Downton More Blake

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After dinner, Rose and Mary are really sympathetic to Tom, and then Rose goes to bed and these two resolutely fail to make out. Instead, Blake tells Mary she better be REALLY SURE she wants to marry Gillingham, because she's "cleverer than he is," and that's going to make her miserable, and he thinks -- essentially -- that she just wants to hook up with Gillingham, not shackle herself to him for all eternity. "Are we talking about sex, or love?" Mary asks, and Blake wisely notes, "that is the question that mankind has been wrestling with since the dawn of time. GOODNIGHT." And then he sweeps out.

HE IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN GILLINGHAM. Let's take stock: He likes children, will help you muck out the pig stall, is straightforward about matters of the loins, and realizes how smart Mary is. LOCK IT DOWN, MARY. SHAG YOUR MAN.

## Downton THIS IS GOING TO BE A DISASTER

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Don't worry. This continues to have all the ingredients of a complete and total shitshow. There have been no developments that would lead any human beings to believe that anything about this plan would lead to anything other than complete and total disaster and heartbreak. Duchess Kate and I continue to shake our heads over Edith's terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible life choices, she while her Princely Husband rubs her feet (presumably) and me while I see how much of a bar of Lindt Fine Chocolate I can shovel into my mouth (more than you'd think).

## Downton COATS!!!!

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But who cares about any of that? Mary has hared off to a hotel in Liverpool at which she plans to give Gillingham a test ride, and WHATEVER LOOK AT HER COAT AND THAT HAT. I can say nothing but: !!!!!!!!!!!!

## Downton Wireless

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In which everyone -- prompted by Violet -- stands to listen to the King's speech (although not *The King's Speech*; indeed, this show could use a dash of Colin Firth) on the wireless, which ever after shall belong to them. Thanks for giving me such a good look at your outfits, guys! Rose's dress is GLORIOUS.

## Downton Kathie Lee and Hoda

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ISOBEL: The radio somehow makes the King more real.

VIOLET: Is that a good thing? The monarchy has thrived on magic, and mystery. Strip them away, and people may think the Royal Family is just like us.

ISOBEL: Would that be so wrong?

VIOLET: Well, only if they want to stay at Buckingham Palace. \[PATENTED DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM SCENE-ENDING MIC DROP.\]

(Somewhere in England, Wills and Kate exchange worried looks, laugh awkwardly.)

## Downton Sad Potato

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You guys, sometimes Thomas just wants TO BELONG. HE JUST WANTS TO BE LOVED!!! Is what he tells Anna (who, as I noted last week, I think is one of the few people he really does like).

EvilButler.com, you handsome fool. You would have better luck making friends if you stopped blackmailing two-thirds of your coworkers. Let's start there, and see how it goes. (I love Thomas, truly. He's THE WORST sometimes, but Rob James-Collier is so appealing when he's terrible, and so good at looking like he's got a roiling inner life and very nearly being sympathetic even when he's being AWFUL.)

## Downton Secret Sexcapades

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I think Michelle Dockery is quite a good actress, but I don't think she's really selling the Face Lighting Up At The Sight Of Her Beloved here, as Tony Gillingham appears in her hotel room. There's then a lot of discussion about how Gillingham got them adjoining rooms, and whether they're going to go to dinner, and on which street said dinner will be, before coming home "to make love all night" because nothing says SWOONY BRITISH ROMANTICAL OLDEN TIMES SEX like logistics and scheduling!!!!!!!

## Downton Making Out?

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And then they mashed their faces together passionlessly. (Heather said, "Watching her kiss Gillingham is like watching her lick a two-by-four," and I must agree.)

## Downton MURDER CONCERN

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BUT THEN! Back at the ranch, A policeman comes and tells Carson and Mrs Hughes that they're going to need to talk to people about The Dead Valet again because...GET READY....THERE IS A WITNESS TO HIS MURDER.

And if you're not fluent in The Faces of Mrs Hughes, this one says, "OH. SHIT."

Until next week, my friends.

[Fug the Show: Downton Abbey Recap, Season 5, episode 2First of all, apologies that this is a wee bit later than usual -- the Golden Globes shoved me down the Downton well and only just now fished me out. Point the second: I could not get the PBS app to work for me when I was taking screengrabs, so these are from the UK version of this episode (which is the only thing iTunes offers). I assume the US and UK versions are not WILDLY DIFFERENT -- like, I can't imagine the US version suddenly has a scene wherein Carson passionately kisses Thomas and then steals Isis before running off to America -- but just so you know. Third: here's my traditional NO SPOILERS language. Fourth: This episode boasts maybe my favorite thing Lady Mary has ever worn. Fifth: I promise we won't be plugging this too incessantly, but I feel Downton viewers are the right demographic to actually care about this, and this week has been very busy, so in case you missed it, we revealed the cover of our new book, The Royal We, and we're giving away three advanced copies. If you like thinking about making out with hot British people, you might enjoy it! Sixth: I've gone back to the slideshow format here because, for some reason, this show is easier to recap in slideshow (mostly because Julian Fellows likes to jump from short scene to shorter scene). But I'm not married to that. So prepare yourself for structural experiments this season!!! Aren't you so excited? Seventh: I have A LOT OF NOTES about Gillingham v. Blake. Like, A LOT. Eighth: I forget what eight was for. Ninth: OH EDITH.![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/img_7632.xml)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-the-show-downton-abbey-recap-season-5-episode-2-01-2015/)