Branson's political views manage to get him into trouble while Sybil's loyalty is tested to the limit.Download Video Downton Abbey Series 3 Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Downton Abbey Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.Ethel finds herself being torn between head and heart as she makes a decision about her son's future. Anna is upset by Bates's silence and wonders what could be the cause. Carson looks for a new a footman and good-looking candidate called Jimmy creates interest below stairs.Beginning in the years leading up to World War I, the drama centers on the Crawley family and their servants. "The sun is rising behind Downton Abbey, a great and splendid house in a great and splendid park. So secure does it appear, that it seems as if the way of life it represents will last for another thousand years. It won't". In season 2, the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them has been changed forever, since the Great War was declared at the end of the last season.
"Now stop talking and kiss me before I get cross," Mary later admonished. But Matthew had something far weightier on his mind, with his dinner tails burned by the misadministrations of new valet Alfred just as a big 'do' was being planned to impress the Crawleys' American relation.
The way Mary was going on, you'd have thought the whole future of Downton was going to fly or fail on the fate of her husband's charred panel. Scintillating stuff, this married life business.
Mary and Matthew's vacant will-they-won't-they limbo land had been filled by Lady Edith and her reluctant suitor Sir Anthony - at least this week he stopped erming and aching long enough to tell her straight he was too old for her, and for her father to tell him to bugger off. This being Downton, they were engaged by the credits.
But this was all just colour to the main plot of the night, Lord Grantham's shirts going missing, much to Thomas's chagrin - this suspiciously soon after he'd shown new valet Alfred just who was boss, with unique advice on how to press a shirt, and burn a hole in a dinner jacket.
O'Brien's face was a picture as Thomas continued to undermine Alfred - the chasm between these two former conspirators can surely only end in tears, hopefully not those of the utterly loveable lady's maid, my constant favourite.
Worry is perhaps the most constant of all human conditions. There’s always something bearing down on the mind, the soul, the heart, whether it’s the concern of a potentially bad diagnosis or the niggling doubts over one’s path in life.
Downton Abbey is a show that gets us to care about the Crawleys and the people in their immediate sphere by appealing to our universal condition. They worry just like us.
They have joy but they also have concern, oftentimes in equal measure. For as often as our worries amount to nothing of any great concern, it’s just as likely that hardship can come when we’re least expecting it. Such is the case with poor Lady Edith (Laura Carmichael).
DOWNTON ABBEY is the kind of "Masterpiece Theatre" material that the British do with such finesse that one can only sit back and marvel at the sets, costumes, music, and above all, the performances that are all on an extraordinarily high level.
The moment the first series ended, I wanted to see more--so no doubt I'll be ordering my copy of Season 2. Central among the gifted performers are Maggie Smith (as the Dowager Countess Violet), Hugh Bonneville as the Earl of Grantham, and Elizabeth McGovern as Cora, his American wife.
But all of the lesser roles are played to perfection with special mention for Brendan Coyle as John Bates, Joanne Froggatt as Ana, Michelle Dockery and Laura Carmichael.
Complicit in schemes involving wicked behavior are two of the downstairs help played brilliantly by Siobhan Finneran and Rob-James Collier as Thomas, both of whom cast a shadow over the household.