HappyHanna

I'm super behind on episodes, but I found this all very strange as well. They didn't sell their AZ home, their home schooled children are just going to start going to school (do they speak spanish?) I would have put money on them buying a rental there. Looks like real estate agent mom started her own school (no comment on her qualifications or the very whoo hoo type of schooling) in the "3 cabinas and various covered areas have been converted into classrooms" https://www.stepsinlifecr.co so they live where?

So the same. I'm hoping (though realize it's unlikely) that she isn't dead after all.

My unpopular opinion - the books are terrible and have not aged well. I guess because I didn't read them back when they came out, but I have no loyalty to their storylines, and writers should change away. I only started reading after last season, and as I loved season 2 (another unpopular opinion lol) I went right for that book. I was horrified, not only was it a repeat of "now they have to get married because they were together alone" from the Daphne storyline, Kate had no spice once they got together. Anthony was a jerk and she never put up a fight.

Maybe I wasn't paying attention enough in earlier seasons, but I was a little shocked by Matthew's mother in the board scene. Didn't Matthew's father have to sell her tiara (the one that Trixie wanted to wear for the wedding)? In the board scene she put all the blame on Matthew, ignoring the previous mismanagement.

I agree, and though I know what the writers said, I'm pretending that the slap happened but this episode it was just William's flashback/dream so he prefers to remember it differently (ie with Eliza doing the kissing and not doing the slapping).

I haven't watched beyond episode 1 yet (I'm such a sucker for spoilers lol!) But per a couple of sites it was scheduling conflicts.https://parade.com/tv/miss-scarlet-and-the-duke-season-4 so sad that there will be no Moses this season!

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436781 It is a real painting, and there is plenty of speculation on the internet that it shows people with Downs Syndrome. But who knows, that time period wasn't known for great face depictions (so many old man faced baby Jesuses) and Down Syndrome wasn't medically categorized until the mid 1800s.

Another predictably satisfying Call the Midwife Christmas special. The Mr Sharma story of course made me cry, and the cat, and the entire Toni Douglas story. Always enjoy the dynamic with Trixie and her brother and Cyril continues to be the hero of Poplar Quibbles: The whole Nancy and Collete continue to be publically embraced as a single mother household and move into Nonnatus House...I know it's the late 1960s but a wee bit unlikely, especially for a religious order. I've always found the May storyline uncomfortable, too much white savior and kidnapping. Are Trixie and Matthew living in a two bedroom? They didn't have an extra room for Trixie's brother, he had to sleep on the couch. Didn't Matthew have a bigger house before, I know his dad died and there was issues with the business, but isn't he still fairly rich? Looking forward to the new season!

So I have not read the books, but Lizzie (who is all of what 19?) Is going through with this surprise pregnancy (that everyone is super excited about) because the possible baby daddy might live long enough from his INCURABLE HORRIBLE HEREDITARY DISEASE to see said baby grow up. And they don't want to test for said INCURABLE HORRIBLE HEREDITARY DISEASE because this said baby should decide for itself. Got it.

My impression of the new Buccanears is that it is a Bridgerton level of modernized. I would like to see Gladys+the Duke (assuming that it is following the Cora or Consuelo pattern) with a slightly more true to time treatment. (I would also like to see that with this one...can Marian stop rolling her eyes please)

Yes, Fellowes is definitely using the Vanderbilt story as a driver. From building the biggest Newport cottage to the Met, where the Vanderbilts were a driving force after old money kept them out of the Academy of Music. Its fine by me, I find the Vanderbilt story fascinating. And Morgan Spector is way way hotter than Cornelius Vanderbilt. And I thought the original plan did the Gilded Age was a Downton Abbey prequel, which for whatever reason morphed into the George and Bertha show instead. Hooking Gladys up with a Duke both would be historically on point and keep the initial idea (even if it isn't Robert and Cora).

I waas coming here to say this . . the actor playing Harry is just not a good casting choice. Even though Dominic West isn't great as Charles, I can still somewhat see it. But the acctor playing Harry? Not. At. All. He looks like a younger Eddie Redmayne to me, it's distracting. Also the actor is 23, he's not believable as a, what 15 or 16 year old? Not that the William actor was believable as a teenager either but I can almost as a college student.

Second season now on PBS passport. Follow the heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service in the Australian outback. Based on remarkable real-life stories, this gripping drama series follows the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to across some of the most beautiful and inhospitable places in the Australian outback. (I looked really hard and could not find any mention of this show on Primetimer, though there were a few nominations for RFDS in the Winter Primetimer awards)

Wasn't that the Whitmore residence, not Winterton?

I would agree, except Larry is a child. He acts like a child, he wasn't interested in taking on his father's business, there's no indication he has reached the object permanence stage of human development. He's thinking with his d##k, so I don't see that asking him to consider the future would have any effect. Mrs. Blane, however, is a grown woman who knows what society demands. This goes into why I can't ship Larry and Marian. He is not mature enough for her, and she as a early 20s (I assume) gentile poor woman who needs to marry someone who can provide for her. She may (or JF may) pretend she's going to be independent and provide for herself, but there's no real way she could do that. She's living on the largesse of her aunt, at some time that gravy train will end, and teaching water colors (or reading to poor kids? Does anyone understand this school? Thursdays are rich kids, Fridays are poor?) Is not going to keep her in satin gowns. She doesn't have time for Larry to grown up. Though I'm sure they are end game, anyway.