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PBS Downton Abbey

February 20, 2012 by · Comments Off on PBS Downton Abbey 

PBS Downton Abbey, “Downton Abbey” may have just aired its second season finale in the U.K., but fans of the PBS Masterpiece TV show are already eager to get whatever season three spoilers they can. It’s been a busy few years so far.

Matthew Crawley was briefly paralyzed after being wounded during World War I, while his fiancee Lavinia died of the Spanish flu just after seeing him kissing his cousin Mary. Mary, meanwhile, became engaged to the increasingly domineering Sir Richard Carlisle, who used the knowledge of her past exploits with one Kemal Pamuk to blackmail her into marrying him.

By the Christmas-themed finale, Mary has come clean about her past and cast off Sir Richard, becoming engaged to Matthew at long last.

Beyond the show’s main upstairs couple, younger sister Sybil finally gave in to her love for Branson, the family’s socialist chaffeur, while Edith had a (very short-lived) liaison with a local farmer and Lord Grantham became infatuated with a new maid named Jane.

Isobel Crawley, Matthew’s mother, turns Downton Abbey into a hospital before going to help WWI refugees, while a veteran named Patrick Gordon asserts that he is actually Patrick Crawley, Downton’s heir thought lost on the Titanic.

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