This special disappointed me massively.
It is Rose's (Lily James's) coming out season, which means that she is presented to the King and Crown Prince, who will eventually become King Edward IV, before abdicating the throne. However, there is a catch, a secret letter between the Crown Prince (Oliver Dimsdale) and his current mistress, Freda Dudley Ward (Janet Montgomery). It is stolen by the card shark and must be retrieved to save the monarchy. This means that the Crawley family puts a horrid plot into action. It is lame and stupid, time that could have been better spent. We learn that Bates (Brendan Coyle) can forge handwriting, which was far too easy to figure out. Also, a ticket stub proves that Bates was in London the day the evil rapist valet was killed, but Mary burns the ticket stub, not wanting to condemn him to a horrible fate.
The better plots involved Edith (Laura Carmichael), struggling to deal with having to give up her baby. The baby is a girl, by the way and is living in Switzerland with the Schroeders. Edith spends more time thinking about her child than Mary (Michelle Dockery) does about hers and baby George lives with her, locked away for a nanny to deal with. In the end, she still doesn't tell her parents, which will come back to bite her, but decides to give the baby to the Drewes, a local farming family. This is bound to bring her only more heartbreak.
Tom (Allen Leech) continues to see the teacher, Sarah Bunting (Daisy Lewis) and even brings her back to the house. Granted, they just look around, but Thomas Barrow (Rob James-Collier) is not pleased to see this. He tells Robert (Hugh Bonneville) who then brings up the issue to Tom, but I guess Robert believes Tom. Someone put extra pee in Barrow's coffee for this episode.
That's basically it. Sure, Carson (Jim Carter) has to come up with an outing for the servants and he takes his sweet ole time trying to come up something Mrs. Hughes (Phyllis Logan) deems acceptable. They decide to go to the beach. Hughes is thrilled. Mary is still juggling both suitors, but she still hasn't decided what she wants from life; she's just glad that she has a bright future. So I am. Daisy (Sophie McShera) is offered a job working for Cora's brother, Harold Levinson (Paul Giamatti) in New York but she turns him down. I guess I'm okay with that.
Speaking of that, Harold and Martha (Shirley Maclaine) are back, and Martha and Violet (Maggie Smith) spar with the best of them, bringing the episode some of its best scenes.
All-in-all, I was super disappointed. Harold and Martha both get love interests, but neither go anywhere. Time is flying by, it's already 1923, but the characters move at a snail's pace, and I'm so sick of it. Something needs to happen. The season ended with more questions than answers. We still don't know Baxter's (Raquel Cassidy's) past. Daisy is still involved in a love triangle and though she is flattered, she doesn't act upon it, meaning that basically all of these characters are bound to remain single. Isobel (Penelope Wilton) has a love interest and though I thought she liked him at first, she grows bored with him. My mom put it best, she described the episode as cheesy, which it was. I am addicted to the series, but quite frankly, I'm barely looking forward to season five. Grade: C
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