![]() But don’t get any ideas, “Brary” shippers (“I’ve just christened them that,” cackled Leech): Branson and Mary are each “looking for love” - “but not with each other,” Leech said, twice for emphasis. ![]() Mary will continue to enjoy the attention of both Lord Gillingham and Charles Blake, and she’ll become even closer to Tom Branson. I see kind of season five for Mary as the “new Mary” - she’s got a bit of bite back she had in (season) one.” “She’s embracing her life, she’s through the grief now. ![]() “This (season) she is quite impulsive,” Dockery said. Mary has shed not only her widow’s weeds but the heavy burden of her grief that immobilized her for much of season four. Then, with a wink to his “Downton” brother-in-law’s tragic end, he added, “To be honest, I’m expecting to meet a truck in a narrow lane.” “In no way did I expect I would still be there” after the death of Tom’s wife, Sybil, he said. “You’re all expecting the ‘Downton Abbey’ Red Wedding, aren’t you?” Leech wisecracked again, referring to infamous “Game of Thrones” massacre in which several major characters were murdered.īut Leech, who expected to get his “firing papers” after Tom Branson’s initial three-episode arc, is prepared for the worst. “It did occur to us to find out if we could keep our actors before (plotting this season),” he said with a laugh, before confirming, “We’ve all come to comfortable arrangement that is mutually beneficial.” Referring to creator Julian Fellowes’ decision to kill off Matthew Crawley when Dan Stevens decided not to renew his contract after season three, Neame confirmed that this time, there were no surprises with the cast members’ contracts. 2016 Episode 6.5 8.5 (1,400) Rate Violet embroils the Minister of Health in the hospital row, but his visit ends in catastrophe. While Neame would tease only that season five offers “really substantial twists and turns,” Leech leaked a major plot point: “The unicorn farm no one expects,” the Irish actor deadpanned.ĭon’t expect Carson to be announcing the arrival of the Grim Reaper this season - all of the major characters should survive through the next Christmas special. ![]() Both actresses could easily carry weighty subplots on their perfectly sculpted shoulders, so perhaps they just happened to be visiting the set and Julian Fellowes decided to shoehorn them into the script.American viewers have to wait until January for “Downton’s” premiere, but cast members Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary), Joanne Froggatt (Anna Bates), Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith) and Allen Leech (Tom Branson), alongside executive producer Gareth Neame, offered the first substantial preview of what’s to come. Chancellor plays arch and sexually predatory Lady Anstruther and Walter is stuffy but wry as the Dowager's old friend Lady Shackleton, introduced and quickly discarded as a potential suitor for the Isobel-smitten Lord Merton. We're spoilt for choice here, with both Anna Chancellor and Harriet Walter making blink-and-you'll-miss-them appearances, both doing what they do best. Then again, since one of his grandchildren is currently being raised by a pig farmer who moonlights as a fireman, that's the least of his problems. A working-class prime minister is elected and old attitudes start to change. Poor Tom - he even gets upstaged by his daughter, who has taken to calling Lord Crawley 'Donk' in a misplaced attempt to remind us that he's a family man. Season 5 Episode 1 1h 6m 57s Video has closed captioning. Spirited socialist teacher Miss Bunting seems to have wandered in from a different series altogether where she plays the spunky, iconoclastic lead - she clearly thinks she's being charmingly modern, when actually she's just the rather rude love interest of a less-than-interesting character. Grant.Meanwhile, you wouldn't think that such an already-bloated cast would need any addition, but it seems that, having adjusted to life as a single father and proxy aristocrat, Tom is now in the market for a love interest. What this says for the Countess' future is uncertain but since McGovern's band, Sadie and the Hotheads, have been touring a lot lately, the Earl might want to pay more attention to his wife unless he wants to lose her to Spanish flu or upcoming guest star Richard E. It seems that Cora is getting tired of being less of a character than an occasionally convenient plot device a bewildering choice from creator Julian Fellowes, since Elizabeth McGovern is considerably more talented than some of her co-stars, Hugh Bonneville included. Lord and Lady Grantham are having marital problems of their own, although Robert is largely oblivious, to the point of forgetting their anniversary. ![]()
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