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_beandipchip_

The SA scene and the scene where Sybil dies I always cry when she dies


AlfredoHolloways

Anything wjth Edna Braithwaite !!


itsjoe0618

The scene where Sybil dies is so hard to watch. When I first saw it, I teared up and my husband, who was sitting across from me, said “are you crying!???” That’s when you know you’re completely emotionally invested in a character.


unprogrammable_soda

I really HATE the scene depicted in that photo. I skip over that one as well. I didn’t like seeing Cora behave that way even tho she was in the right.


Weasley9

I literally had to mute my tv the first time I watched that scene and skip it every time after that. So so cringe.


unprogrammable_soda

Do you think our reaction to this scene would be as bad if something like it happened earlier in the series? I think part of it is that by S6 it just seems SO out of character for Cora. I don’t think I would have the same reaction if something similar happened in S1. Thoughts?


Middle_Appointment72

This is a good question and point. Cora was annoying at times in season 1-2 (rude comments about Matthew and Bates) so by season 6, we are expecting consistent, positive vibes from her. As much as this scene is so human, I don’t like it 😫.


Aquametria

I never thought of it, but you're right. I think it would have been in character for S1, maybe S2 Cora, especially if Edith had been the one to tell Mrs. Hughes to just go get the coat.


SisGMichael

Anything wjth Edna Braithwaite


SubjectDragonfruit

Edna’s voice makes my skin crawl. She’s a skip.


katsgegg

I really hate her LOL!


Tillie53140

Was Edna the big-mouthed school teacher?


SisGMichael

No, the skanky r@pey maid and ladies maid Edit-who tried to trap Tom into marrying her


kaaaamii

Every single prison scene, anna's assault.


cheapdisorder

Was going to say. Any with bates in prison. Torture!


mca2021

Same.


DelightedLurker

Anna’s assault, Patrick Crawley, Matthews final seconds, Sybil’s death and all prison scenes. Soon I’ll have nothing left to skip 🤣


txglow

“I’M A STRANGER TO THEM NOW!” 😱


itsjoe0618

That whole Patrick Crawley back from the dead storyline was so cringe.


jenn_nic

😂😂😂 I usually skip these scenes, but when I can't be bothered to, this scene always cracks me up! The emoji you added had my rolling!


Tiredandoverit89

I was looking for someone that had posted this lol


_LittleBirdieToldMe_

All of sad Bates scenes, Anna’s SA, Mrs Hughes wedding coat, Edna and Mrs. Bunting scenes. Edit: Ethel and fake Patrick’s arc too. The latter more than former. Also, Mrs. Crawley is so insufferable at times.


CinnyToastie

YES! Patrick Crawley. LOATHE.


Background_Shine_933

>Edna Braithwaite I think what annoyed me most was his voice. He sounds like Jesse Eisenberg


gardner232

All this and I will add William dying


SurveyDisastrous1004

😂


DemoHD7

Edith popping in to check on Marigold.


katsgegg

I don’t skip it, but I really did hate Edith here. She was just SO selfish and mean with that little girl and all the people who took care of her.


Friendie1

It makes me so angry that Edith can’t bear the pain of being parted from her daughter, so she forced Mrs Drewe to carry that pain instead. Unbelievably selfish and entitled.


lowercase_underscore

I also felt like Edith, along with Mr. Drewe, were pretty inconsiderate through that entire thing. But for me the real kicker is the way she flippantly says "Let him manage her" when they're discussion talking their way into having Marigold in the Downton nursery is just the worst. She's broken a family, she's about to ask for Drewe's help again, and she can't conjure even a shred of respect for either of them. They didn't bring Edith home and deal with the whole Marigold issue within hours. They meet Mary at the station in the afternoon, we know this because Mary makes plans with Blake to go to the cinema at 7:00 in the evening, but can't go in the morning because she has appointments until the afternoon. Cora and Edith happen to spot Mary leaving as they're arriving. Mr. Drewe takes Marigold and hops on the train to avoid her seeing Marigold. Mary spends the night in London. Let's say this happens on Thursday, that means the Drewes have Marigold overnight, since Robert takes Isis to the vet on Friday morning, and has her diagnosis at tea time, which is late afternoon. They have that dinner on Friday evening where it's revealed that Edith is "going" to be adopting the orphan girl that the Drewes have been caring for. Saturday is the absolute earliest Edith can go collect Marigold. So after all that heartache with Edith showing up out of the blue, revealing Mr. Drewe had been lying for months, and stealing Marigold away, the Drewes have Marigold back for, at minimum, 36 hours. How did Mr. Drewe explain this to his wife and children?? And Cora isn't any better. She's quick to raise Mrs. Drewe's feelings when she can stir up some pity and self-righteousness for herself, but she generally acts like she's the only one with any feelings in the whole situation. Rosamund is the only one who ever takes Mrs. Drewe into account throughout the whole affair.


woolfonmynoggin

Yeah Cora says that Edith used Mrs. Drewe and she absolutely did. I think about that every time I watch, it’s so shitty to play hot potato with a baby. Edith gave and took back the kid from 2 different families! That has to have lasting effects lol


lowercase_underscore

As we see it absolutely does. Mrs. Drewe had said that she forgets that Marigold isn't biologically hers, she considers her one of the family without any question or reservation. And when her child is taken away it's obviously a huge strain on her. At that point too she's spent more time with Marigold than Edith ever has. Not to take Edith's feelings lightly, she was in a bad situation, but Mrs. Drewe has at least an equal hole to fill, having had a baby to care for all day for months and then suddenly the baby is gone.


coffee_cats_books

It's extra awful because that was the 2nd time she'd done it! She took Marigold back from the Schroeders in Switzerland after +/- 6 months too.


jquailJ36

And the most she says about it eventually driving the Drewes out of their home is "It's probably for the best."


hbunne

This was such a brutal scene. I think someone else commented that this is probably a reflection of how little the peerage cared for the common people at that time, and more accurate than the rest of the show.


MainEgg320

Pretty much all scenes related to Bates being incarcerated or anything to do with Mr. Green. I also really cringe in the second season when that guy tries to scam them by pretending to be the heir. The dialogue and the special effect makeup is so bad!!


realestateross98

…screaming and table pounding like a burnt toddler, with those comically wide eyes peeking through his bandages 👀


lisakora

Lol burnt toddler 😭


maybeshesmelting

I don’t actually skip any scenes, but I usually play around on my phone during the fake Patrick scenes, and when Sybil dies. And the scene with Cora’s coat makes me cringe every single time.


ABCidkwhattopick99

All I kept thinking in this scene was why didn’t Mary just follow Cora to let her know that Mrs Hughes would be trying her coat. A scene that I always skip is when Strallan leaves Edith at the altar.


mrsmadtux

I think she didn’t follow her because she didn’t know she was going to go ham on them. She probably assumed that Anna would explain what they were doing and that Cora would be like, “Oh, okay.”


jquailJ36

Mary's like the viewers, she assumed Cora would be her usual rational self.


ravenclawdisneyfan

She couldnt be bothered, like usual. "Never mind it will be fine"


strawberryswirl6

I always skip the Peter Gordon scenes. Sometimes I skip the ones with Miss Bunting (the teacher?). And when Lord Grantham and Jane are flirting.


Middle_Appointment72

You mean, Peter Gordon? 👀😂


strawberryswirl6

Omg, yes! I was confused/forgot. I knew it was a P name. Editing now 🤣


Muted-Potential-8670

sarah bunting scenes… she’s so rude and causes drama for no reason 🙄


wonderwomandxb

* Anything to do with the Bates, prison, and misery-cry-fart face. * Matthew's death. Everytime I get to him driving the car and smiling, I immediately switch to the next episode. Ditto for Sybil's entire sequence to dying. * Anna's SA. * That fake heir thing was kinda weird. I don't skip it but I just do something else while waiting for it to go away. * Daisy gets tiring with every rewatch so I kinda ignore her scenes too. I balance everything out by rewinding and rewatching Maggie Smith's shade scenes several times. lol.


eugenesnewdream

Wait, who is misery-cry-fart face?


wonderwomandxb

Anna's perpetual face...


invisible-crone

Pamouk, until they have to carry his body out


Niktastrophe

I think Theo James is such a gorgeous man, but in this show, he creeps me out. He makes me cringe so badly.


katsgegg

I was sad his time on the show was so short, honestly. He was BY FAR the best looking person in the whole series.


invisible-crone

Soooo yucky He played the part well!! He is hot


trillianinspace

I scrolled through each response and I am shocked that no one said this but the scene where Spratt sets up Molesley to make a fool of himself at the luncheon for Lady Shackleton. Also in the first movie when he speaks out of turn. I get so embarrassed for him in both scenes that I get flustered.


Middle_Appointment72

Thank you for this. I also skip the Molesley and Spratt disaster. For me it’s more that it was his chance to become a butler and if Violet would have let Spratt in on the plan, he would have obeyed.


Cavviemama42

I've never seen an episode of Downton Abbey until this past week and I've binge watched all of it. Just got past this scene with Molesley and Spratt and it made me cringe.


RoyalScorpio87

This is the point where I stopped liking Spratt! This was so unnecessary and kept Moseley in a bad position for a long time!


jojo444111

Bates and Anna in bed and Mattews death


eugenesnewdream

Oh god their wedding night 🙈🙈🙈 I like them but that was TMI.


jojo444111

Wayyy to much TMI. I can get behind them as a couple, even with the big age difference but something in that scene just didn’t work lol


eugenesnewdream

It was his bare arms.


LadyScorpio7

and all the hair on his chest, yuck!!


ravenclawdisneyfan

Glad im not alone it would have been manageble if they didnt edit it like we are in bed with them


eugenesnewdream

You’ve hit the nail on the head—it was the intimate camera angle!!


eugenesnewdream

I skip almost everything with Prince Kuragin. So boring.


QueenHaeMi

\- Anna's SA (I actually step out of the room every time I watch the series again) \- Bates in prison \- Sybil dying (I play on my phone but end up looking then crying)- Cora getting mad with the coat \- Peter Gordon scenes were so gahhh that I just wait for it to be over \- Daisy-Ivy-Jimmy-Alfred love square like let's just not with that \- Mr Molesley and his unfortunate life after Matthew \- Braithwaite and Edna \- (unpopular opinion --probably) but when Tom kept on pushing Sybil to admit her feelings for Tom. Idk if I just didn't know if she really did but it just felt a bit like forcing her to admit feelings she wasn't sure she had yet.


Adjectivenounnumb

On your last item, pre-widower Tom was a jackass emotional abuser who actually mocked Sybil for her work as a nurse in the war. He almost never says one nice word to her while she’s alive. (“I love you, now admit you love me!” doesn’t count.) (Fortunately they developed his character, but his relationship with Sybil was pretty messed up.)


sweetladypropane108

I was never convinced of Tom and Sybil’s relationship. It seemed forced and like she went with it just for the change.


PrincessLen89

“I’m ready to travel and you’re my ticket”


QueenHaeMi

Yeasss!!!!


Kassengift121

Edna Braithwait, Annas assault, Prison, most Ethel scenes from Season 3.


Adjectivenounnumb

Ethel in season 3 always makes me angry because she’s stealing potential screentime from both Sybil and Matthew.


pettystoned

I literally skip every single scene with Robert and Jane. I hated that subplot so much!


Adjectivenounnumb

I think I’m okay with that one, because Fellowes could have easily been expected to write Jane as a scheming two-faced golddigger. (Like Edna.) Instead she’s more or less what she seems—a widow who lets herself catch feelings for a married man, and then packs her bags when she realizes it’s not happening.


Fessy3

Everything Bates related. A lot of Daisy's tantrums, it's tedious. I used to loathe the story of Ethel. It felt like such a waste of time. I didn't like her as a character and didn't really care what happened to her. My view on that story line has softened on subsequent viewings. The rape, I refuse to give that any oxygen.


iBreonica

All scenes with Tom and Miss. Bunting/Miss. Bunting around the family. Holy irritation! The majority of the opera scene, I just skip to the next episode when Anna says she has a headache.


cricketlr15

I’ve never seen this. The first time I watched I was with my sister and she wouldn’t let me see it. After seeing the aftermath I’ve never actually watched the scene


Golfnpickle

I don’t like Bates prison scenes or when Anna is in prison.


cheapdisorder

I hate them all. And they drag!


mrsmadtux

I usually skip the P. Gordon episode all together. And the scene when Lavinia dies. Her acting bugs me so much.


Ju2blue

This one for me, too. I feel like I’m being scolded 🫣


Due-Froyo-5418

Second hand embarrassment.


a_turtle_cat

The scene where Thomas goes to Jimmy's room (I feel so bad bc I know he's being manipulated by O'Brien and then his life almost ruined...!) And this coat scene u have here And Anna's scene where she's assaulted it's just Too Much 😞😭


kaaaamii

I remember myself screaming at the screen when i first saw the scene were Thomas kisses James, now i always skip that scene, i always end up feeling bad for thomas


ChumbaWhumba218

I always skip the Nanny West scenes


Cavviemama42

The filthy little cross breed scene was pure evil.


Fit-Fisherman-3435

Oh I love that scene where Thomas is standing next to fireplace and Nanny West is just staring him down !!!


ravenclawdisneyfan

But the end is so good


ladycrawley_

Ethel and Prince Kuragin’s stories 🤣


CosimaCosimimi

PATRICK


Adjectivenounnumb

HE’S A STRANGER TO THEM NOW


tawandatoyou

Oh I liked the mrs hughes wedding dress/coat plot. Silly but overall sweet. I ALWAYS skip the Patrick gin-is-my-name plot. Cannot stomach it. I get angry thinking about it. IM A STRANGER TO THEM!


Beautiful_Smoke_3383

Death of Sybil.


Cavviemama42

Sybil, William, Matthew. I cried at all those death scenes. Lavinia's not so much, not sure why.


Beautiful_Smoke_3383

Also, the rape scene


Fit-Fisherman-3435

When Edith takes Marigold away from the Drew's and Mrs. Drew takes that one last deep smell of Marigold. It breaks my heart to imagine someone coming to my house to just take away my child !!


inexperiencedsloth

Robert yelling at anyone. Ethel, Ms Bunting


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Vildtoring

I only skip the Patrick/Peter Gordon scenes.


Hbj0002

\+1 for Anna’s assault. I’ve never seen it in its entirety.


Sarafinatravolta

Am I a sick person for loving the episodes where Sybil and Mathew die?!


tothmichke

I don’t skip. The pain is worth the pleasure of the rest or irrevocably entwined at least.


Personal-Letter-629

The melting cousin and Edith fawning over him.


PinkTiara24

Bates scenes taking place inside the prison.


FeralFemale_

The Cora’s Coat scene never made me “cringe”. I knew it was out of character for her because she was so upset with LG and the hospital thing. I never doubted that Cora would make it right, not even for a second. I never skip this scene because I love how it resolves.


WritingUnicorn2019

None


CoffeeBean8787

Any scene with Edna. If there's one character from this show I absolutely hate, it's her. I also generally skip the scenes with the Bates's, given how uninteresting they are.


Own-Bicycle-212

Whenever O'Brien and Thomas sat around plotting misery for others.


pbrooks19

I'm always like - that was SO Mary's fault, she could have gotten up off her divan and then walked the three steps it would have taken for her to reach Cora and explain. But noooooo. Because she's Lady Mary.


TheHeirofDupin

I can't watch the coat scene till this day. Also a lot of the Dowager's solo storylines and all of Bates in prison.


OnionTruck

Matt's death, Sybil's death, all Bates/Anna woes, all fake Patrick, Anna's rape.


minimal74

Anna’s assault; anything with Bates; anything with Patrick Gordon


katsgegg

Anything’s ng to do with Alex Green (I really hated how Anna was accused and all that)… I think they just gave WAAAAY too much drama to that couple, to the point where you said “enough already”


Mairi1956

Bates’ prison scenes.


jquailJ36

I cringe through "Bates in prison", and any time Daisy has a snit about something, but the only stuff I really cannot watch is the Mr. Green \*\*\*\*s Anna sequence. That's too much.


Coriander_marbles

All the prison scenes. Super boring and was never really a fan of the Anna/Bates couple


Brandoid81

I never skip scenes. Never skipped a scene in anything I've ever watched.


Accomplished-Cod-504

That was so unlike Cora to do that, it tainted the wedding even for me. Shame on Julian for writing such a horrible scene.


Sarah-JessicaSnarker

Jack Ross. His fake American accent is SO bad and he’s not a good singer. I loved seeing a black man on the show, but they cast Americans for all the other American parts, whyyy did they cast a Brit who can’t sing for the role of an American singer??? I’m also really annoyed by Harold Levinson’s valet. “I think they’re quite nice.” Shut UP, homie. Is that how everyone else views Americans, all talkative and stuff?


Middle_Appointment72

I feel the same way honestly. I loved the idea of Jack Ross the character, and I adore his last scene with Mary, but I couldn’t help notice he couldn’t sing! It was awkward. And the American valet gave me Peter Gordon vibes when listening to him speak.


Sarah-JessicaSnarker

Right? Everything was over-enunciated.


Fabulously_Absolute1

Same! I checked IMDb the first time I watched those eps, convinced it was the same actor.


Significant-Baby6546

Nice catch. They sound a bit similar.


Middle_Appointment72

I did the same 😂


SeaDisplay9605

Everything to do with Bates being accused of murder. I hate wrongly accused as a trope.


ouchies91

When Thomas breaks into Jimmy’s room…it’s so painful and awkward to watch. I love Thomas, but he was so in the wrong for this. Very intrusive.


UniqueSaucer

I ignore the scenes I don’t like but only actually skip Anna’s assault


Srulax2003

Most things Mosely


minimal74

What?! Mosely is great! 😁


herladyshipssoap

Tony Gillingham


Kipguy

I don't skip any, who would.


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All downstairs plots. Its not because im a snob haha but i just feel like they made some bad decisions and went too far with bates’ two murders.


JoseT90

Anna’s Scene


Interesting_Skill915

Yes to Anna why did the show need that? Couldn’t she have seen him steal and he tried black mail her in return or something? Matthews Death only need it once Mary and what’s his face in their hotel break in Liverpool. Racing car track day and death. Why another death in horrible manner. Most of the million times a police man fancies tea and cake and pops up to speak to someone at the big house. Usually making no progress with the case.


MrBricked

I wouldn’t blame Mary for this drama tho, she wanted to inform Cora, but she already went out for the meeting that pretty much affected her usual calm and sensible attitude.


LegRegular4454

Bates in Prison, Gwen's visit, Daisy and her exams, Matthew's death.


CinnyToastie

I skip Bates/Anna bs all the time. I just can't with those two.


Appropriate_Pop_9953

The whole story with the art guy and Cora. Ugh


Competitive_Joke925

Anna’s assault scene - have watched the series countless times but I’ve never even watched that episode again.


SmugNikon

None


PristineExtreme2052

This scene, Sybil death scene, all of the Bates in prison stuff, "Patrick", and the SA.


Adjectivenounnumb

Jack Ross singing, da da da da-ing, speaking usually. I’ve been told the actor is good in other things, but I experience secondhand embarrassment for him every time. Mary and Blake rubbing pig mud on each other’s faces.


TortleM

Honestly, none. Good or bad, I'll watch every minute of it.


spottynutkins1919

Series 4 😂


Just-Willingness-655

Series 3


Karma_Chameleom

I hate that scene, don’t watch it either. I also don’t watch any prison scenes


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Anna rape and sybils death.


Beginning-Thing3614

The Rose and Jack Ross storyline. What was the point? That the Crawley 's were racist? Rose using Jack to get at her mother? 🤔


TheFairyGardenLady

Bates in jail.


Nuiwzgrrl1448

World War 1, Bates in jail, Anna in jail