What I expect to see in Downton s3
Now that the States has caught up with the UK, I’m free to hope for or expect:
- The return of the entail/Cora’s money question, perhaps facilitated by Grandmama Levinson. The kind of thing that could add a new wrinkle to the apparently settled Matthew-Mary question. Will Matthew be happy being a Prince Consort if Mary becomes Queen in her own right?
- The Troubles. I think it’s safe to say most people expect the birth of the Irish Free State to figure into the story. Will Branson and Sybil survive the tumult? Will their marriage? How will Tory-par-excellance Lord Grantham deal with having a Fenian in the family?
- Anna Bates Investigates. She proves her husband’s innocence and brings his persecutors to justice! Aside from solving a couple more mysteries and scandals on the way. The plot to prove Bates’s innocence was, after all, clearly telegraphed in the Christmas special.
- Thomas screws Alfred (one way or another, maybe both), driving a deeper wedge within Team Rocket. (Or will Thomas be the one getting screwed? One way or the other or maybe both?) Seriously though I need to see Rob James-Collier in homo sexytiems.
- The “Catholic” subplot: is this about Sybil’s baby, or about the Troubles, or about something Anglo-Catholic a la Brideshead Revisited and the Dukes of Norfolk?
