Downton Abbey S3, E3: The Episode Where Lord Grantham Became Completely Hateful
I briefly thought of entitling this "Men Are Stupid," but that didn't seem quite fair, since at least Matthew was intelligent in this episode. What to say about Lord Grantham. I haven't begun to dip into all of the supplemental reading for Downton Abbey , so I don't know whether Julian Fellowes meant for Lord Grantham to come across as a useless tool. But surely some of it must be intentional. He can't have made him that way without thinking, could he? Could he? Plot Synopsis Despite having a staff far too small to support Downton Abbey even during the best of times, it turns out that Lord Grantham is a wastrel. Matthew takes a hard look at the books and discovers that the estate is being woefully mismanaged. Yet when he tries to bring it up to Lord Grantham, the latter manages to dodge the issue. You almost get the feeling this has happened before. Maybe that's why Downton apparently has no estate manager -- because he left in a huff, no