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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.

It also sounds like Marian bring her work home so it's possible that her work extends beyond the time she physically spends at school. I also noticed this. Sloppy writing, I assumed, since Marian isn't the one I think of for a witty retort. Also, she's grading watercolors at home? These are like 12 year olds, future wives learning cute hobbies, how are you going to grade their still lifes?

Small nitpick, or maybe just random moment that totally seemed pointless to me. The Russell lady's maid Adelheid, I guess she was in season 1, though I don't remember her at all. She may have a German name but she doesn't sound German, so what was the point of the conversation about how she and Mrs Bauer would have been on opposite sides in the Austro-Prussian wars? It was to establish that she was born in Berlin, but she must have immigrated as a baby bc she sounds very generic American. The Mrs Bauer actress is also U.S. born, but she puts on an accent for the role.

Agree all. Enjoyed this season, looking forward to the next one, but PLEASE DON'T MAKE DAD A MURDERER! I really liked his dynamic, especially with Morgan, they were super cute together.

Is anyone actually shipping Lucian and Constance? Why do the writers want this so badly? It does not make sense as an actual relationship, sure an affair (Lucian follows his father's footsteps, although at least(?) Cecil's main(?) affair is with a woman of his social class, whom he wanted to marry but their families didn't support) but upper class gentleman is not going to marry a servant who already has an out of wedlock child. Not going to happen. Not in 1920, heck not really in 2020. And the whole "look, Rose wrote a letter, she supports us" with its weird echos of Downton Abbey -- Rose is not Lavinia, Lucian is not Matthew, Connie is not Lady Mary...stop trying to make fetch happen Hotel Portofino writers!

This was my question, too. She and Harry seen to be able to just pop in and out of jobs (and countries!) at will. It seems not very likely that she could just flit in, work a few weeks, and then flit back out. But baby Vera being no older (and sure in real life they probably didn't want to get a new baby actor, but why not, it's not like we are vested in this one) sure makes it look that way.

Agree, she and her parents looked like contemporaries. I had to look them up, the actor who played Hillinghead is 13 years older and the woman who played the mother 11. The young Polly actor is 27 and I assumed her character was supposed to be like 18. 🤷

100% agree. I don't know why people are even making out a thing. It's a second language, and like anyone who speaks a second language, no matter how fluent, it is tiring to use it and your first language is where you express yourself best.

Just rewatched and subtitles for the fail. I usually watch with them, and the ones on pbs showed"18 and 12" but 8, 10, and 12 makes much more sense with what Annika responded about him and his wife having a routine.

Given the age of Michael's kids (at least the 18 year old that he mentioned but have we seen? But who is older than Morgan), it would have been an affair. So even if they loved each other, it wouldn't have been clean and easy to be together.

Ditto. I guess he's the lead of another show now, but bummer.

Isn't it a brand new unit? In any case the consistency in this show is not huge, since in an earlier episode Michael said his kids were 18 and 12, and the two they have showed are clearly not.

That makes more sense, but I thought I had heard Annika say conflicting things in the episodes. And then at least the Tellyvisions writer thought the same thing "Annika does not get along with her parents at all; disappointing them by having Morgan at 15, insisting on joining the force at 17, and breaking away from the life they mapped out for her" https://tellyvisions.org/article/annika-season-1-episode-3-recap

Am I wrong in that Annika had Morgan when she was still a teenager? And so she's supposed to be in her early 30s? The actress is 50 something, so I don't quite buy it.

I wasn't sure I'd watch this season after disliking so much of the first one, but aside from Harry (who remains, to quote the Telly Visions Podcasters, the worst) I'm finding this season more compelling. I am a wee bit ick on the Lebensborn storyline, but mostly I'm just not seeing the linkage to the rest of the story. But I'm liking the North Africa piece with the Indian soldiers, of course there's Harry dropped into it, and