Isobel Announces Her Engagement | Downton Abbey

[@denisefreitas6727]

"My dear, a lack of compassion can be as vulgar as an excess of tears". Great line!

[@GoldenRose116]

Mary has no class when Edith is involved

[@robertarevetria]

Violet to Mary....

[@rowanaforrest9792]

@@GoldenRose116 Mary eventually developed some class for Edith near the end of the final season, but at this point she was still spiteful and insulting.

[@olly-kai]

Honestly, one of the best lines of the series!

[@coffeebean8790]

@@GoldenRose116 Honestly, I lost whatever respect I had left for Mary as a result of her actions in this episode and the episode before. Even if she does show kindness to characters like Anna and Carson, it doesn't change the fact that she's a bully to Edith.

[@msfriendsfan4ever788]

Lord Merton was so sweet and wholesome. How he ended up with a son like Larry, I'll never understand

[@deborahpinkey1264]

From what Lord Merton has said about his former wife/mother of his children, she was a piece of work. Pretty sure she was quite snobbish. Lord Merton said it. "The boys take after their mother in every possible way."

[@jameslyon2338]

His wife was horrid, I believe he mentions putting up with her for the sake of his sons and then they turned out exactly like her.

[@rowanaforrest9792]

@@deborahpinkey1264 Late wife. I guess she had died several years before since Lord Merton was already a widower when he met Isobel.

[@susansantapola]

Larry was worried about his inheritance .

[@kasiopeusgordon-clane110]

@@rowanaforrest9792 , but he died way before her. The first Lady Merton was horrid.

[@georgeprchal3924]

"Larry Grey has spoken to Mrs Crawley in a manner that in any other century would have resulted in him being called out and shot!" Dowager Countess Violet

[@cremebrulee4759]

More's the pity. Some traditions should have been continued.

[@taroman7100]

Theres no group quite like the upper crust British that can take a crushing insult with the proper decorum. White people then were hysterical to watch now. In my Italian family we'd be coming across the table.

[@2charliep]

Violet’s reaction is really telling, that despite their differences she’s going to miss her friend living so close by.

[@Cik_Siput.Luar_Biasa]

and how sad in Downton Abbey New Era film, Lady Merton (Isobel) sad & crying for Dowager Countess death😢.. even with their differences, they actually are soul mates to each other.

[@themermaidstale5008]

Lord Merton: “The boys take after their mother, in every possible way.” Now that’s a window into his previous marital and family life; it sounds like it was hellish. C’est dommage. Isobel will be a lovely and refreshing change.

[@alexpozniak4106]

The actors who play Lord Merton and his sons look like thay are related in real life. Good casting.

[@welcometoamerica690]

And suddenly we slipped into a foreign tongue! Dowager hits the mark every time.

[@mH8675309]

Maybe so - albeit an appropriate foreign tongue

[@uhejnjd]

Robert-"We don't endorse Tom's language." Everyone at the table-"You go Tom!"

[@lauraschoenborn3544]

No one going to mention Tom’s snapping. That was probably the best moment of the scene.

[@melindoranightsilver9298]

I loved it, mind you he remembered when Larry slipped something into his drink to make it seem like he was drunk so he already hated the man.

[@themermaidstale5008]

💜 When Violet puts Mary, her favorite grand-daughter, in her place. Brava, Violet!💜

[@lizb853]

The Me 👏👏👏👏 Bravo,I couldn't have put it better myself.

[@friendoffrancis]

It's a little thing, but i like rhat Lord Merton and his sons have the same long face shape. It makes them really look like family

[@olly-kai]

"That is certainly how we all feel!" And one look around the table, all the angry stares, and you KNOW Lord Grantham is right!

[@m.layfette6249]

I wish they would have shown their wedding in the Series Finale.

[@flyboy152]

It would have been nice, but a bit much. Mary had just been married in the previous episode, and the finale was focused on Edith & her wedding.

[@Kai555100]

Honestly a plot point I would have liked if she actually lived with him in the big house (forgot the name) and how she than lives with a diffrent life but a bit much for the last season

[@lisarandleman6141]

@@Kai555100 Cavenham. Larry and his new wife moved in because they thought Lord Merton would die soon.

[@cugamer8862]

As despicable as the character is, let's not forget to acknowledge the amazing performance by Charlie Anson here. The way he plays the character just oozes sleaze, it takes talent to make a character as thoroughly hateable as Larry is.

[@olly-kai]

Ok I'll give him that. Still hate the character!

[@olly-kai]

PS ... Hate BOTH of those sleazy brothers! And I wish they had shown us their wedding, how sweet that would have been!

[@MandyJMaddison]

@@olly-kai , Neither of the brothers are "sleazy". The original poster here has used the word "sleaze" and you have picked up on it. It means something entirely different. A "sleazy" person is morally corrupt in a sexual manner. A sleazy man is one who makes unwanted sexual approaches, or looks at woman in a sexual manner. They may not DO anything offensive, but they make a woman feel uncomfortable and threatened. These two brothers are NOT sleazy. They are extremely arrogant, discriminating and prejudiced. And Larry is just plain rude to say the things that he said, at a dinner to which he had been invited, and offend almost everyone around the table, including Lady Grantham whose father was Jewish.

[@MandyJMaddison]

cugamer, I have posted below to Kai C, explaining what the word "sleaze" means. Larry is not in the least "sleazy". You are using the word wrongly. .

[@mamieanding5691]

@@olly-kai He is the J R Ewing and Draco Malfoy of Downton. Like many other despised characters, let's admire the actor's performance and gleefully hate the character.

[@cute_canadian_redhead6747]

After Larry's nasty dig at Marigold and Edith, she ends up marrying a Marquis who loves her and Marigold as well and elevates both above Larry's station.

[@flyboy152]

That was actually Tim, the younger son who made the comment about Edith. Mary said much the same thing about Edith to Tom in a later episode, just not quite as nastily.

[@Ronkyort0dox]

He has a point

[@brt5273]

And he then gets the pleasure of trailing behind her in precedence 🤗

[@PermenBoba-dq3jb]

​@@brt5273😂 he didn't have a problem with Edith at all, he just thought she already have a slim chance getting guys, now she settle her self with a child, so even slimmer chance. it was Mary who always hate Edith and can't stand being way behind her in precedence

[@Jordan77831]

I've never hated a TV character as much as I hate Larry. This actor is an absolute genius

[@rowanaforrest9792]

I can't say I've never hated a character more, but Larry certainly ranks in the top several villains in Downton Abbey. Great acting, by him and everyone.

[@El-vi6lg]

Yes!

[@reyconui]

Nah, Miss Bunting still takes the top spot for me.

[@taroman7100]

genius? He should be able to act you know. Put any guy into a stuff shirt atmosphere who's a class A- jerk and it should be easy.

[@squares4u]

@@reyconui Miss Bunting at least had good intentions. She was outspoken and rude, but progressive. She fought for women and education and the concept of socialism in the UK. Larry was just a stubborn, antisemitic little man child who didn’t care about anyone but himself.

[@ianthomas2983]

And that is the sort of action that gets people cut out of the will

[@flyboy152]

The will wouldn't have mattered. By law, Larry inherits the title and estate.

[@marionarda2790]

Or poisoned in their beds. Or driving a car with no brakes . Or ruined by a compromising letter

[@bookl0ver]

Lord Merton isn't dead so I like to think once he married Isobel he at the very least left most of his fortune to her, even if he couldn't completely disinherit Larry regarding the titles and lands. And the younger brother was equally as bad, so he should've been disinherited too.

[@dancingqueen5064]

Tom's face at 2:20 says it all. "Get this guy out of here before I punch him"

[@paintbynumbermonalisa4187]

Writers of this show are just wonderful.. The lines are amazingly witty!

[@WBCRO]

I believe there is just one writer: Julian Fellows. To my knowledge, he single-handedly wrote every script. I don’t know how much work goes into each one but it seems like a tremendous achievement.

[@ayakotami3318]

Those angry stares he got. The actor who played him did an amazing job!

[@AlbertoGarcia-wd7sc]

Let's be honest, Larry is the best portrait of the upper class. The rest of the series is a lovely fantasy about nice rich people being kind to their servants and even admitting a chauffer into the family

[@anjaplushenka5995]

*Hear, hear!*

[@belamoure]

True. @@anjaplushenka5995

[@themarquis336]

So true

[@zerjiozerjio]

yup

[@stationarywanderer7910]

Agreed.

[@28105wsking]

Mary is such clueless cold fish. " and Isobel is the grandmother of my child." Excuse me, she is your mother-in-law, the mother of your husband, and hurting even more than you are! And to leave Isobel alone in the hall after suffering such a disastrous end to a happy announcement is just cruel. She deserved embraces of compassion and encouragement at the very least and should not have been left alone at such a moment of deep shock, hurt, and humiliation. Talk about a lack of compassion!

[@kerriethompson2073]

Sne was always kind of cold and distant to Isobel. Even Matthew died not once did we hear Mary ask about Isobel or come and see her. Edith was the only family member to think of Isobel and comforted her in Isabel's time of grief. I know Mary was grieving, but she could have shown a little kindness to her mother in law.

[@lizb853]

@@kerriethompson2073 Mary is/ was INCAPABLE of compassion. She's the most important person in the world as far as SHE'S concerned.

[@blackeyedsusan727]

"Grandmother of my child" meaning the grandmother of the current, living heir to Downton. Mary certainly is cold and unfeeling. But that phrase was directed at the situation before her, a discussion on social rank. Her feelings or lack thereof were not at issue at the dinner table.

[@lizb853]

That is/ was typical of the day. One doesn't show ones emotions in public.

[@lauraschoenborn3544]

That’s a stupid comment. It’s the British Stiff Upper Lip tradition. The fact that she said that she is the mother of her grandchild shows that she considers Isobel family. It would have been worse if she said “cousin” and ignored it all. Isobel also called Mary her grandson’s mother.

[@feg3akatrey144]

The gall of the other son to rush his father because poor Larry had been waiting in the car. I’d have told the snot that I would now take my sweet time and ole Larry could lump it. I’ve never seen so many upper-class people act with such utter *lack* of class than around the Crawley’s dining room table!

[@VallaMusic]

one of the most brilliantly written dinner scenes - although the part I admire the most is the brief blink of an eye of time where the camera quickly spotlights Carson giving Mr. Molesley the silent sign to see Lord Merton's total jerk of a son out the door

[@carlairving]

Carson at 3:49 is best Carson. Yes, he is 20 times more of a traditionalist than anyone in the family, but he cares about them first and foremost. In his snobbish, hierarchical way, but undoubtedly and wholeheartedly.

[@El-vi6lg]

Yes! Awesome reaction.Get the sleezeball out now!

[@chase2182]

3:40 such the most beautiful part that brings me to tears. As long as we have one another it will be okay.

[@obiwanfx]

little did they know, the dowager Violet would avenge Isbobel later on! Game set match for the dowager yet again

[@lindabederio4603]

Lord Merton and Mrs Crawley is my favorite couple on Downton Abbey.

[@bunnycortland353]

I wish we could have seen Tom give Larry the beating he needs

[@lizb853]

Bunny C Yes absolutely. I' say! I'd pay good money to witness that I can tell you.

[@eowyn1964]

Yeah, I wish they had shown their wedding on-screen, too. Ah, well. I had an opportunity to visit Highclere a couple of years ago while in England. It was a real treat to visit a TV location. I've been in that library!

[@cremebrulee4759]

How lucky you are. Besides the TV series, Highclere has an amazing history of its own.

[@charoemparan6011]

Que envidia !!!!

[@melissaphillips3088]

Love this show just for these scenes. They hit the mark every time.Fantastic writing and acting. I could never be tired of Downton Abbey. ♥️🇺🇸

[@bookl0ver]

Why didn't Lord Merton discipline his sons? It angers me that he didn't stand up for Isobel anywhere near the way he should have. And he just lets them boss him around. I enjoy him but he is a bit wet when it comes to his sons, and that's what caused poor Isobel so much grief.

[@MarkT1700]

They should have been disinherited

[@barbarateittinen728]

I agree

[@cynthiachengmintz672]

I get kids (especially adult children) have issues with stepparents but this is just nasty! And why does it matter? Larry is an adult and doesn’t have to deal with living with a stepmom. He only has to tolerate Isobel during holiday dinners.

[@erinjohnson1124]

Or rather, Isobel AND Lord Merton have to tolerate Larry.

[@Karina-ux4lv]

3:51 Mr. Molesley's face 😂😂😂

[@westminsterwatcher5152]

They'd be lucky to have a stepmother like Isobel Crawley!

[@ladymalditah3367]

BEST MOMEMTS FOR LADY AND LORD MERTON PLEASE

[@lisafreund1110]

That would be really nice.

[@bunnycortland353]

And his near-rival Dr Clarkson. Isobel is kind of a dude magnet, only right behind Mary, Edith, and Rose

[@EstherHulst-Artist]

I wish we got more of them, a short wedding scene and other scenes together

[@chrissyrocco796]

I love how they found each other.

[@user-tt5xj5ib1e]

Lord Merton is such a sweetie. I just want to give him a big hug :) 😍😍😍

[@englishrose4388]

How did such atrocious sons come from, apparently, a very nice man?

[@97meeses21]

His wife was a piece of work and they took after her

[@rowanaforrest9792]

Lord Merton is a true gentleman and a sweetheart, but his wife was the polar opposite and their sons turned out like her instead of him.

[@lizb853]

Strange hiw often the nicest people have the most awful impolite and unpleasant of spring. Yuk! 🙄

[@cremebrulee4759]

@@lizb853 Lord Merton said that they took after his wife.

[@zedmarlen]

Very nice upper class men often had next to nothing to do with the raising of their children.

[@thekingsdaughter4233]

I got on to this long after the fact and am behind in watching episodes. They _did_ get married, yes, please...? * sob *

[@concernedparent2081]

Yes-and you’ll love how it came about 😊

[@MelissaBethMorgan]

Keep watching! You'll be gratified. :)

[@rowanaforrest9792]

It is delicious how Lord Merton and Isobel finally get married. You're going to love it!!!

[@obiwanfx]

they do, and as a cherry on the cake, Violet owns both larry and his fiancé in the process

[@yannickdrmda5295]

Ok but the Grey brothers are SNACKS

[@zerjiozerjio]

Especially the younger. He’s so handsome.

[@mH8675309]

You gotta love Tom

[@maxrenfroe1902]

I would have loved to see the Dowager Countess put Larry in his place. He's such a nasty snob.

[@rowanaforrest9792]

"Snob" is the least of Larry's faults, but it's a start. In a better opportunity, I'm sure the Dowager Countess could trounce him into the dust with her words, like she did later on to his equally rotten fiancee.

[@obiwanfx]

she actually does later on, twice if you count the absolute verbal trashing she gives larry's fiance

[@charoemparan6011]

Si la Condesa viuda es .excelente con sus "dardos"

[@ljmccorkle]

Is Cora's head permanently tilted to the side?

[@mm-yt8sf]

lord merton has amazing self control with his sons....i guess his entire life he was trained not to fly off the handle "larry's been waiting in the car" "i'm just coming" doesn't reveal his true disappointment with the turn of events

[@gabykappscomposermariagabr749]

I rather think Doctor Clarkson was smarter, and cuter. No accounting for taste. But then...the title...

[@FPOAK]

Tom: the people’s champ 💯

[@ElleCullen17]

Lord Merton should have just disowned him.

[@flyboy152]

I don't think he could. By law, his title would pass to the eldest son.

[@Fee212]

Mrs Crawley's new son-in-law is as unpleasant as he was preciously.

[@kathleensmith1958]

You mean stepson.

[@anthonyjyearwood816]

The odious Larry Gray strikes again! Too bad Julian Fellows didn't arrange an accident to kill off this character. lol

[@MandyJMaddison]

He accidentally found himself engaged to the nastiest little piece of work that nature invented. Miss Cruikshanks was going to tear Larry Gray to shreds, once she got her claws in.

[@Robert08010]

Thoroughly impressed with all the upper lip stiffening, and the keeping of same.

[@alexandradane3672]

A superb scene!

[@barbarateittinen728]

Isabel is not in same social class. As lord Merton but is a lovely person

[@chasegordon7429]

They may endorse my speaking in saying quite wonderful actors, and actresses. They played very handsomely a villian quite phenomenally!

[@user-nq9qd5zk3x]

Супер сериал! Сериал на ВЕКА,!

[@JeffHongchang]

1:40 true

[@charoemparan6011]

Por.eciosa serie y la película fantástica.

[@patriziajanowschi8378]

Fantastic😍😍😍❤❤❤

[@mjgabor1528]

What happened to the doc? I thought he was in the running?

[@rowanaforrest9792]

Their romance fizzled -- well, they never had a romance, just Dr. Clarkson hoping for a while. They did remain friends, I'm glad to say.

[@cremebrulee4759]

She turned him down. She didn't share his feelings.

[@annaranella9512]

L ho chiesto decine di volte......vi seguo dalla prima puntata....ho visto x anni repliche di repliche.....per favore inserite un traduttore. Baci a tutti dall Italia.

[@nieladrew]

Se desideriamo attivare i sottotitoli in italiano sull'app di KZbin non dobbiamo far altro che aprire l'app, portarci nel video in lingua inglese o in altre lingue, premere in alto a destra sul menu con i tre puntini, premere sul menu Sottotitoli e attivare la voce Inglese >> Italiano (generati automaticamente) o voci simili. Si attiveranno automaticamente i sottotitoli tradotti in italiano; per spegnere e accendere questi sottotitoli possiamo anche utilizzare il tasto CC presente in alto a destra, così da scegliere di volta in volta se mostrarli o meno.

[@annaranella9512]

@@nieladrew Grazie mille.

[@melaniekendall4903]

I realise it's just a TV show but what a horrible nasty way to speak to someone who only has the best interests of your father

[@nathanlatham5651]

I really wonder why she chose Merton over dr Clarkson

[@MandyJMaddison]

Clarkson was a colleague.

[@MarkT1700]

Money.

[@MandyJMaddison]

@@MarkT1700 , I don't think money had anything to do with it. Clarkson was a good, clever, decent, boring, impatient man who would have driven her up the wall.

[@glen7318]

@@MarkT1700 the village doctor wasn't really her social equal

[@cremebrulee4759]

@@glen7318 She was a doctor's wife before her first husband passed away. Besides, even though her position in life had improved because of her son being the heir, She didn't believe in all of that social hierarchy. She was a very down-to-earth woman. I don't think she had the feelings for Dr. Clarkson that he had for her.

[@veritysprott1547]

Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip: The Engagement

[@jayt9608]

Larry was deliberately nasty. The other son was tolerable until the very end, but I do believe that there is a difference. The setting was very wrong for such an introduction, especially with Larry being present with his viper's bite, and so Lord Merton set himself up for a terrible situation. Larry's brother only states the truth, they are not ready to welcome her with open arms, not because he is in opposition as Larry, who would have shot down the queen herself, but in his case due to his opposition to feeling his mother being replaced. For this reason, I see these brothers in a very different light.

[@cremebrulee4759]

It would have been rude for Lord Merton to turn down their offer to host the dinner. His sons, especially Larry, should have behaved properly. They displayed terrible manners and great disrespect for Lord and Lady Grantham. Lord Merton probably expected them to follow proper etiquette.

[@lindseybarrow3070]

So two spoiled brats still tied to their dead mother’s aprons strings. Most mature adults would’ve already moved on, and been happy for their father to marry.

[@jayt9608]

@@lindseybarrow3070 To a certain extent, yes. However, there are a great many mature adults that absolutely hate the idea of a parental remarriage. Yes, I agree that it is best for the children to adapt to the situation with grace and be grateful that their parent is again finding happiness with another person. But at the same time, it would not be just to deny the painful and uncomfortable feelings of watching your parent showing affection to a total stranger and living their lives together. I should hope that I would be supportive of my parents remarriage upon widowhood, but at the moment the best I would promise would be civility and decorum. Thankfully both sides of my family are known for long lives so I may not have to actually ever face such an ordeal. My point is that it is easy to be the Pharisee when we are not having to walk that mile ourselves.

[@davinciangelocesista-herma6983]

Lord Merton was a wet blanket when it came to disciplining his sons. Couldn't a Lord disinherit his heirs and bar them from getting any of his titles?

[@twc3546]

Larry could be the long lost grandson of George Sanders

[@stevencole4602]

Golly gumdrops!!

[@Diamondelle84]

4:47 Tough luck 😑

[@kurosakayoshimi7790]

I like this couple💕 kawaii 😊

[@vitaluppino426]

Vi prego in italiano oooooooo!!!!!!!!

[@kachi2782]

And suddenly we seem to have slipped into a foreign tongue !

[@themermaidstale5008]

“…to have slipped into…”

[@kachi2782]

@@themermaidstale5008 Thank you, i am mortified !

[@themermaidstale5008]

@@kachi2782 You shouldn’t be mortified; it’s just a small mistake. Violet speaks British English; I speak American English and have difficulty catching everything that’s said.

[@kachi2782]

@@themermaidstale5008 This makes matters worse ! I am British, and now an American is correcting my english. My ancestors must be turning in their graves ! This is as if Martha Levinson was correcting Violet's english, how mortifying ! Hahaha ! To my defence, I haven't lived in the UK for a few decades, spent 25 years in Japan and have been living in Switzerland for quite some time, but "slept instead of slipped" goodness ! Thank you very much for the comment, I do stand corrected. I am also very appreciative of the fact and comforted by the thought that a couple of centuries of American independence hasn't entirely annihilated the english language and obliterated the idiom into oblivion. Thanks to people like you. Happy 2022 fourth of july !

[@themermaidstale5008]

@@kachi2782 I didn’t intend to be the cause of your anguish.

[@josephlenehan4461]

Joseph and today TV 😀

[@medusagorgon8432]

Unfortunately, we all know a Larry.😒

[@hpavalferr7201]

☺️💚💙

[@ValeriePallaoro]

Ok. Now I've found someone, some two ones, whom I can dislike as much as Mary. Phew.

[@PabloHernandez-qw1qj]

And Suddenly we sleep in to a flouring thong

[@imisstoronto3121]

Larry's views are far more in keeping with the English upper classes of the period. They didn't like us much, and those views still prevail today. As I'm Jewish, I find Lady Sinderby's attitude to her only child's marriage to an outsider completely out of character. Her husband says her family's been in England for 800 years, and since we pass our religion on through the mother ONLY I find it incomprehensible that she would welcome a Christian as her sons wife without demanding conversion. They have stayed Jewish only by not inter marrying, yet with only one child and that a son she ignores religious law? And for those that don't know in Jewish England, Orthodoxy prevailed in matters like these. Julian Fellowes got it all wrong.

[@veritysprott1547]

Prince Philip and Prince Charles

[@MandyJMaddison]

Verity, that is a really stupid thing to say about a man about whom you obviously know nothing. You are writing about a man who has NEVER breathed a word of complaint or condemnation about the paranoid, promiscuous, self-indulgent, vindicive woman he was unfortunate enough to marry. Alright for Diana, in the middle of her third or fourth affair to run to the press in 1986, to tell them that Charles had gone back to his old friend. Ok for Diana to compete with the Queen for the love and loyalty of her Subjects. Keep in mind that you have NEVER heard one single nasty word from Charles about Diana. Is he a SNOB? A man who would rather be "Defender of Faith" than "Defender of THE Faith" i.e. Christianity. A man who considers British youth to be the country's greatest asset and who, to that end , has put over a million disadvantaged young people into training and business? If ou are stupid enough to believe waht you might have seen in The Crown, then the depiction of Charles is libellous, and the depiction of Diana as a sane and reasonable is erroneous.

[@GirlGeek90]

I do not like Larry