#mr lang

Well this week probably went the worst way it possibly could've. God knows how many braincells I used trying to explain to certain people that an orange felon who has no morals to speak of should not be the president of a book club (not that he reads I expect), let alone the United States of America. But then I guess that's part of the reason we watch shows like Downton isn't it? To escape to a different time, even if it wasn't much better than our own (except for the fashion, that was the best thing ever). Anyways, lets start on this weeks episode!

I love Isobel, but she is rather bossy sometimes

Yes because mixing ranks is so dreadful!

Oh Daisy dear

MR BATES!! Using his ninja skills I see

Oh poor Anna

Yay for Sybil! Girlbossing since 1895

Oo first curling iron sighting (and only I believe)

Dear Anna, she clearly thinks she's going mad

Love how Mary just wants Anna to be happy

Rosamund's house is quite something and I'm here for it

Oh poor Mr Lang

Dear Mrs Patmore, she was clearly very close to her nephew

Plotting in the courtyard again I see

Yes I don't think many people are truly in favour of that plan Doctor/Major Clarkson

Then why don't you tell Cora now Robert?

Well about that Mr Branson

Oh Mrs Patmore! I just want to give her a hug

I wouldn't be testing Carson's limits if I were you Thomas

I love that shot of them all walking out of the house, a united front to the unknown

Ugh Major Bryant

Oh Anna, always the sensible one

Matthew!

Now how many times does Julian Fellowes use a very similar 'moral high ground' quip?

Don't push the limits, Isobel

Ahh dear Evelyn!

One of the good things Sir Richard Carlisle did was help Mary locate Mr Bates

Ooo a heart murmur

Good on Edith, helping everyone out

Oh Ethel, Major Bryant is a disgusting excuse for a human

Ooo Anna, whatever are you planning?

Yes Mr Bates! Am I glad to see you! (and I think Anna is as well)

Love Rosamund's hat game

Rosamund love's a good bit of drama

Oh Anna dear

Yes he loves her!!!

No footmen? Whatever will Carson do?

Aww, Captain Smiley was such a sweet guy

Oh dear Mr Lang, life was so terribly unfair to him, as it was to many of the men in the war

I love these moments where everyone is lined up outside and the theme music plays in the background

William dear!

Oh Mrs Patmore

Oh Mr Branson, whatever are you up to?

Go Anna!

Murder? Goodness gracious!

Then why'd you write such an incriminating note?

Ugh

Yay William!

Yay Edith!

Isobel is practically seething!

Lavinia is an utter sweetheart, so hard done by

Oh William

Poor Daisy

Wait how is Rosamund's hair all upright like that?

Oh Mr Lang

But things has been great in RP. Lang is never going to forgive Ray, but he still knows why he’s done what he’s done. Ray tried swallow his pride for Yuno and apologized, and it was too late. It’s too late.

It’s as Yuno said. The boys they were-each other’s boys, they don’t exist anymore. And they’ve been holding onto each other’s ghosts but Ray forced them all to face reality. And the reality is that they would choose Lang, even when he was wrong. They would die for him, kill their brother, for him.

It’s not easy but. All this is because of Ray. And Lang escalated. By demanding to torture Maxine for sure. But still.

The best scene was Mickey calling Ray to the spot where Ray oceandumped him all those years ago to talk as brothers and after a good few minutes like 10 squad cars come rolling in and Baas and Knight says Ray is violating parole and thanks Mickey. Mickey insists he didn’t know and you can here it in his voice-the fear, the confusion. Ray just says “betrayed again, leave.” From inside the cop car. Mickey says he loves him, brother, Ray says he loves him too but fuck and to just drive. There’s no world where this wasn’t a setup. A minute later, Kitty pulls up and Mickey runs up to her, “Kitty, what did you do? Who did you tell?”

(Ray self snitched btw. Blau was so confused by it. It was all so movie like.)

There has been funny shit though. Marty finally gave Yuno his CG chain back. Tony asked to see it and immediately dropped it out the car window. I expected nothing less. Yuno and Mickey got Ray drunk and flung him out of a sea plane. Mickey is now the CEO of the VU. Marty and his boys owns it. He knew exactly who to hire as CEO

One week and one set of bangs later (long story involving a lot of tears and a faulty hairdryer) and we are on episode two of series two! Here's a mediocre fact for you: on the Wiki Fandom page, Mr Bates is (or at least was a few months ago) listed as appearing in all 52 episodes despite the fact that he doesn't appear in this episode! Anywho, lets get started before I change my mind about doing this week and start watching A Series Of Unfortunate Events instead (it just popped up on my screensaver and reminded me of how much I love it)!

A new valet and a letter for dear William!

Oh poor Mr Lang

Mrs Patmore has clearly had a startling letter poor dear

Oh dear William, so excited to do his part

I normally disapprove of Miss O'Brien's scheming but I can get behind this

No footmen! What a travesty

Miss O'Brien is thawing out of he icy demeanour!

Poor old Mr Molesley

Mr Bates barely out the door (or maybe he's been gone a while but the timing of series two is a bit strange) and in swoops Mr Molesley!

Oh goodie! Matthew is coming back!

Goodness how terrible, to host a dinner party with family but no footmen! It's almost as though there were a war on!

Good on Edith! But don't go kissing any married farmers now!

Oh poor Mrs Patmore

Oh Ethel

Oh dear god! Maids in the dining room? No that would never do!

Robert is a bit of an idiot at times but deep down he does have a kind heart

Oh Mr Molesley

Nothing like blackmailing the hospital kindly reminding the hospital that they are funded by the estate and therefore the estate should have some say in how it is run

Aww that dog is sweet

Thomas! He's certainly not Miss O'Brien's fancy man though

God he is nasty, and those jabs at Daisy and Anna are just plain cruel!

Love Mr Carson's reaction

Anna was positively seething at that!

Love Rosamund's fur coat

Oh poor Sybil

Oh poor Anna, but the way the broken heart/broke limb comment is reused and twisted later on in series four was rather distasteful on Julian Fellowes' part

I never stop touching it

Anna could honestly run dinner better than any of those men!

Matthew and Mary just staring at one another ❤❤

Edith your dress will be fine!

Poor Mr Carson

Oh poor dear Mr Lang

Poor Miss O'Brien, it's clear she really cared about her brother and doesn't want the same thing to happen to Mr Lang

Dear Mary

Oh my god, that poor soldier

Get with the program Sir Richard! There is a difference between walking and shooting tweeds!

Oh dear Violet, your daughter Rosamund knows you too well!

Poor Rosamund, Marmaduke sounds like a rather good fellow

Poor Edward (the blind soldier by the way)

Where is everyone getting this fur during wartime!

Does Mr Drake not remember the time he was literally dying and his wife barely left his bedside?

Dear god, how I feel for Edward

Oh my god. I knew it was coming but it's just utterly heart breaking

Poor Mary, she really does not know what to do about her marriage prospects

Good for Sybil

Oh Lavinia

Poor Mary

Oh Mr Molesley, Anna has given her heart away already and I'm afraid you never had a chance

Oh dear, the farm thing never was going to work out was it

Poor Mrs Drake, Edith seems to have a thing for hurting farmers wives!

Oh my goodness, how dreadful for Mrs Patmore

Not Violet banging her cane on the floor

Cora running for a drink!

Ahh dear William!

4/4 OG Cleanbois heist squad reunited!!!! My boys!!!!

Oh god this is so cool!!! They don't know what they did correctly(And I started a bit before the right math prompt because my brain is fried).

So, it was just Yuno, Lang, Tony, X, and Marty Sadge about Mickey and Ray but punishment for them still having drama? Jk Ray was sleeping and he showed up in chat afterwards was like "I was just sleeping Sadge."

So after the prompt, they could rob the security deposit boxes and get all four colored laptops! They could use them to access LAN in the other boxes and each laptop was a different hack!

Green-Typical Laptop hack(Marty)

Blue-Thermite(Yuno)

Red-VAR(Yuno)

Yellow-Generator(X)

The better you hacked, the more money you got. They ended up with not the best payout because they didn't know who would be the ideal laptop matchup so Yuno accidentally wasted some usage on Yellow and X on Red. Now they know. But they got ~2.2 mil, but they all agreed that it should all go to go to Speedy because of the debts and they're still 1mil in debt.

The second they sat down in the manor Lang asked for Marty's state ID to give him manor keys and Marty said he wants to wait until they do it properly with the full squad.

They don't know how long the cooldown is but absolutely next time they're going all out, full squad, escape plans, RPGs, fans hope matching outfits. It will be great to see

But CB. They took a way I didn’t expect. Things are a lot more gray and complex but that's exactly what I wanted and I'm excited to see RP be furthered over the next few weeks(Because they aren't brushing it over!)

No amazing getaway driver though so we’ll see if they get away. They’ll stack the fines if they get caught and they’ll have like 6 hostages, lots of evading cops... Also Sykkuno said his cop character should be making an apparence by the end of the week! I hope that means we get Conan and AJ(if Randy is unbanned) again because I miss those two. Like it has been so long since Conan has been around the city. Okay not important I just got on the topic of cops but Euno will be exciting!