Shocked and Heart Broken when It showed Matthews Deadly Car Wreak Last season on the cliff hanger.

And didn't even want to come back for one episode this upcoming season.

n/t

but I ain't telling.

I wish they would have killed off Lady Mary instead. Or I wish they wouldn't have killed off Sybil. She was the best

I too, loved Lady Sybil.

Mary is consumed with grief. She is a ghost, thin and pale with a flat affect, black her color of choice. Without revealing too much, in the final scene, she's wearing lavender.

Lady Cora is a little too generic - she strikes me as an anachronistic suburban American "good mom".

Violet (Maggie Smith) - basically plays herself to much delight. She suffers no fools, but is sensible of compassion.

Lady Mary is strikingly intelligent, but morally indecisive and incapable taking responsibility for anything. Only external events or the desires of the men around here end up bringing things to a decision point for her. She'll never just crack and whip and say "It is because I say so."

Lady Edith is such a cute combination of vulnerabilities and modest courage, and I think I like her most She's so sfraid and so desperate all the time, and it excite's the viewer's instincts to sympathize. Can't help that she resembles my mother a lot in both appearance and attitude, but that is neither here nor there.

Lady Sybil shouldn't have been lost to Downtown. SHe an avtar of so much critical changes and conflicts. But I guess they cowardly sought to sidestep them with her death.

And then the stuff...

Mrs. Hughs seems to be make a tender and caring surrogate mother for the servant stuff.

The interplay of the various other hot young things who come into Downtown are fascinating to watch. British women are wesome.