Warning: Spoilers from the season 6 premiere ofDownton Abbeylie ahead!
Its a very stark reminder to Robert that the stakes are very serious.
Talk about burning your bridges.
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That was professional suicide, pretty serious.
And youve seen in the episode that it hasnt gone away as an issue.
It continues for a few more episodes, the fallout from that.
I dont think we would want to be blackmailed left, right, and center.
Are we going to see them become more and more autonomous?
The show has always placed female characters at the center theyve always been the driving force.
The men havent always known that, but the women really have been secretly running everything.
I think the show is very positive in its portrayal of women, particularly old women.
It is a show very much about women characters.
Edith is probably going on the biggest trajectory of any of the characters on the show.
Shes ended up not where she thought she was going to be at all.
Shes now ending up as a businesswoman.
It was a slow burn, but it feels really right now that its happening.
Thats as much got to do with the chemistry between Jim Carter and Phyllis Logan.
They confide in each other, theyre both the same age, and theyre both single.
Its almost like we discovered this at the same time as the audience.
We all discovered together that they work well and we like them together and we got them closer.
It just moved further and further, and we finally got them together.
They are a relationship right at the heart of the show.
Shes fallen in love with this man whos quite opposite to her.
They just have to keep navigating around all these things.
What is the importance of comedy inDownton?
It is a drama, but comedy is massive throughout it.
Its almost 50 percent comedy.
Its certainly 40 percent comedy, and that is very unusual in drama or in television.
Fortunately all the cast really have that ability to play drama and comedy together.
Think about Molesley [Kevin Doyle], Denker, and Spratt [Jeremy Swift].
