Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey
Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#1Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey
Posted: 2/2/14 at 3:08pmCompare and Contrast.
#2Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey
Posted: 2/2/14 at 3:32pmWe can have this conversation when she comes down to breakfast wearing an Afro wig.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#2Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey
Posted: 2/2/14 at 3:38pmNext season Mathew Goode will make guest appearances as Sir George Glass.
#3Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey
Posted: 2/2/14 at 3:41pmWho will fall in love with Edith and then die, right in front of her.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#4Edith 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.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#7Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey
Posted: 2/2/14 at 3:49pmDon't say I didn't warn you when next week Mrs. Patmore gives Edith a locket and then the locket mysteriously disappears.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#8Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey
Posted: 2/2/14 at 3:54pmYou laugh now, but next season when Sienna Miller shows up playing Lady Edith, we'll know the real truth.
#9Edith 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.
Still, I love Lady Edith. She always gets the fuzzy end of the lollypop.
"Mary! Mary! Mary!"
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#10Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey
Posted: 2/2/14 at 4:29pmOut of costume, she's gorgeous. It's amazing what clothes and hairstyles from 100 years ago can do to ugly a girl right up.
#11Edith 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 ...
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#12Edith 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.
#13Edith 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.
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#14Edith 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.
#15Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey
Posted: 2/2/14 at 6:17pmWell, somebody already told me about Lord Grantham's sex change, so it's ruined for me anyway.
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#16Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey
Posted: 2/2/14 at 6:47pmThen I won't tell you about the Dowager Violet's Bondage Club.
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#17Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey
Posted: 2/2/14 at 7:26pmFlat 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.
#18Edith 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?
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#19Edith 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.
#20Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey
Posted: 2/2/14 at 11:03pmI guess it's just me. Elizabeth McGovern's only Oscar nomination was for the movie "Ragtime".
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#21Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey
Posted: 2/2/14 at 11:05pm
Then, perhaps, a well worded joke, indeed.
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#22Edith Grantham is the Jan Brady of Downton Abbey
Posted: 2/2/14 at 11:38pmOh, dear. Love this series but it is all getting just too predictable.
#23Edith 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.
#24Edith 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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