Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

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Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 3:08pm

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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 3:32pm

We can have this conversation when she comes down to breakfast wearing an Afro wig.

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 3:38pm

Next season Mathew Goode will make guest appearances as Sir George Glass.

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 3:41pm

Who will fall in love with Edith and then die, right in front of her.

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 3:45pm

"We can have this conversation when she comes down to breakfast wearing an Afro wig."

Don't give Julian Fellowes any ideas. The ideas he's stolen from Upstairs Downstairs will eventually run out.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 3:47pm

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 3:47pm

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 3:49pm

Don't say I didn't warn you when next week Mrs. Patmore gives Edith a locket and then the locket mysteriously disappears.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 3:54pm

You laugh now, but next season when Sienna Miller shows up playing Lady Edith, we'll know the real truth.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 4:27pm

She looks a whole lot better when she isn't frumping it up.

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Still, I love Lady Edith. She always gets the fuzzy end of the lollypop.

"Mary! Mary! Mary!"

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#11

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 4:29pm

Out of costume, she's gorgeous. It's amazing what clothes and hairstyles from 100 years ago can do to ugly a girl right up.

#12

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 4:33pm

The one who shocks me the most out of costume and (no) makeup, is Mrs. Hughes (Phyllis Logan).

This is a recent photo of our beloved housekeeper on Downton Abbey ...

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#13

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 4:54pm

WOW.

Yeah, the makeup they do on this show is in a league of it's own. I finished season 4 yesterday and went back and watched the very first episode after that, and it's really amazing how they've aged everyone so subtly over the decade the show has taken place.

#14

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 5:02pm

I'm DVR-ing the episodes as they air in the US, and I watch them usually on Monday nights (it works better with my schedule). So no spoilers!

... but I'm really loving the early 1920s fashions on the ladies so far. Really stunning! They work best on all of these thin figures with small bosoms. That was the preferred "body style" back then, unlike the shapely hourglass figures at the turn of the century.

And I'm glad they're being faithful to the hairstyles and makeup even if they aren't the most flattering at times. Sometimes I think they all look beautiful. Maybe I'm just getting used to the "looks." But I really appreciate all the attention to detail.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#15

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 5:12pm

Exactly. Even at Mary's funeral at the end of the season, everyone is dressed so appropriately for the time period.

Oh wait, you said you didn't want spoilers. Never mind.

#16

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 6:17pm

Well, somebody already told me about Lord Grantham's sex change, so it's ruined for me anyway.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#17

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 6:47pm

Then I won't tell you about the Dowager Violet's Bondage Club.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#18

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 7:26pm

Flat bosoms were so much the rage in the 1920's that women bound their breasts to achieve the right look. We finally get rid of the whalebone corsets and we adopt another form of torture - like 4inch heels.

#19

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 10:12pm

Cora said to Robert "come to bed and dream of Ragtime."

Inside joke?

#20

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 10:56pm

ragtime.
A musical genre that was popular prior to jazz.

It was a reference to music that Lord Grantham would have been more accustomed to.

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

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#21

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 11:03pm

I guess it's just me. Elizabeth McGovern's only Oscar nomination was for the movie "Ragtime".

#22

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 11:05pm

Then, perhaps, a well worded joke, indeed.

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

Updated On: 2/2/14 at 11:05 PM

#23

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/2/14 at 11:38pm

Oh, dear. Love this series but it is all getting just too predictable.

#24

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/3/14 at 9:43am

A question regarding last night's episode. The jazz singer sang, "I'm Just Wild About Harry" at Lord Grantham's party, but wouldn't it have been unusual for a man to be singing about another man considering the time period?

The episode last night was one of my favorites of the season.

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#25

Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey

Posted: 2/3/14 at 9:55am

I didn't think about it in those terms. I took it as simply singing a song that was popular at the time. I'm sure men in his position often got requests for songs they might not normally sing but were popular.

And he could be wild about Harriet

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