Sign up for the Masterpiece Newsletter. Get more from MASTERPIECE on great programs like Poldark, Victoria, and Downton Abbey. Sign up to get the latest scoop on the. Amazon Downton Abbey Final Season' title='Amazon Downton Abbey Final Season' />Downton Abbey Recap, Season 6, Episode 9 And in the End, the Love You Take is Equal to the Love You Make. Daisy got a haircut Sunday night on Downton Abbey. Barrow got a job, Edith got a man and Lord Mertons awful son got what he deserved. And just like that, Downton Abbey ended. Unless the cast can be rounded up for a movie, we will never see them together again, and while we know that what we should say is. As for the storyline resolutions, lets put it this way. Before my wife left to sit shivah, she suggested several of them could have been pinched from Hallmark. Thats not as dire as it sounds. She also acknowledged that jolly good endings were what most of us wanted, because even when main characters went as far off the rails as Lady Mary or Evil Thomas, we still wanted them to slap themselves, become better people and find happiness. On the other hand, Downton didnt become the most popular PBS series ever because it put on a big smiley face. Everyone crashed into obstacles, some serious, life changing and lethal. That was the fun part, and we dont want the fun to be over. We know, of course, that in real life the 1. Downton wrapped up on the eve of 1. Great Depression strikes and little more than a decade before a war that would almost put all of Britain out of business. In that context, we dont begrudge these characters the 1. Violet made life better, easier and a little fairer. Okay, were starting to sound like a Hallmark card ourselves. Sundays big story was that Mary made up for dismantling Ediths life by putting it back together. Mary lured Edith and Bertie to a surprise dinner for two at the Ritz, where Bertie told Edith he couldnt live without her. He was willing to face any criticism over Marigolds status, he declared. Well, except from his mother, whom he wasnt going to tell because shes uber judgmental. Though we can be sure that compared to Violet shed be an amateur, she did let it be known that Berties late cousin Peter from whom Bertie inherited his marquess gig had disgraced everyone with immoral behavior that, while unspecified, clearly seemed to be something straight out of Oscar Wilde. But Edith, knowing the corrosive impact of secrets, told Berties Mum anyway, and sure enough, Mum told Bernie to ditch this trollop. After reflection, Mum backed down. So Edith walked down the aisle again and this time made it all the way through the. Footnote Her bouquet was caught by her editor Laura, who had several warm conversations with Branson. Could this be magic My wife says Branson can marry anyone, including a young Eva Braun, as long its not Miss Bunting. Branson was a busy man Sunday. Fresh from his yeoman campaign to hook Henry up with Mary, he partnered with Henry to open a second hand auto dealership called Talbot and Branson Motors. This came about after Henry decided to give up racing, which delighted Mary so much she seemed not at all upset that shes now married to a used car salesman. Marys evolution was matched only by Barrows. Barrow landed a job at another Yorkshire estate, working for a dull old couple who would have caused the statuary to keel over from boredom. Then something wonderful happened. Well, wonderful for Barrow. Carson began having trouble pouring wine, and it turned out his family had a history of. Exactly why this progressive condition never showed up until the final episode was a medical mystery, but it allowed Lord Grantham to suggest Barrow be brought back as butler with Carson as a sort of overlord, the dowager countess of butlers. Since Barrow had left Downton with so many warm and conciliatory farewells that you would have thought he was going to work for St. Peter, this was a Hallmark moment all by itself. The fates werent quite so benevolent toward the scheming Denker, who ratted out Spratts advice column to Violet, fully expecting Violet would cash him out. Turned out Violet thought the column was delightful, or maybe she was just deflating Denker, who deserved it. In either case, Spratt survived. Molesley and Baxter had a good night, too. He was offered a permanent teaching position, and she declared she will not be seeing or writing to Peter Coyle. Why she considered it in the first place sounded crackers, but this should free her up to become an item with Molesley. Daisy, meanwhile, decided to move into Mr. Masons farmhouse as part of a major overhaul that included changing her hair to a Clara Bow look. Lots of bangs. Patmores nagging about giving Andy a chance. Hes been sweet on her forever, but had given up after all her snappish rejections. Since Andy is apprenticing at the Mason farm, they should see plenty of each other, and Mr. Mason said he hoped he would also see more of Mrs. Patmore said she didnt know what he meant. Mason, that old rascal. Mature romance took a more explosive turn with Isobel and Lord Merton. Lord Merton told Isobel he had been diagnosed with pernicious anemia, which sadly has a high and fast mortality rate. Isobel said she wanted to help him through. But his obnoxious son Larrys obnoxious fianc. To further cement her security, she and Larry got married. When Isobel came by to see Lord Merton, Miss Cruickshank rudely shooed her away. Isobel told Violet it seemed like a freeze out and Violet marched them both to Lord Mertons place. When Miss Cruickshank tried to throw them out again, Lord Merton heard the commotion and discovered that Larry and Miss Cruickshank had never told him Isobel tried to visit. Their punishment, of course, was that they would have to live with each other. As a happy footnote, retesting showed Lord Mertons anemia wasnt pernicious after all. So hes got some time, and since Isobel will be based at Downton, shes still available for lunches with Violet. Lord Grantham briefly threatened to stir a minidrama in the big house when he grumbled that Cora was spending too much time running the hospital. Then Lady Rose, who had crossed the pond to visit and show off pictures of her newborn, hauled Lord Grantham down to watch Cora handle a public information session, and he just about burst his ulcer again with pride at how deftly she operated. Since Mary got her happy ending in the last episode, her main role Sunday was to sell Edith and everyone else on the new, nicer Mary 2. Knowing theyre dealing with someone in the early stages of recovery, everyone was taking this one day at a time. Still, Mary was reaping good karma. She told Henry she was preggers and she also bought a new fangled hair dryer. The hair dryer upset Carson, as all things modern upset Carson, but it soon got its own subplot. When Daisy was redoing her hair, she snuck upstairs and borrowed the dryer herself. That was a blatant violation of rank, needless to say, but it proved what Downton has been saying all along, that the old rules are going ragged at the seams. But soon Anna and Bates were sitting on Lady Marys bed with the baby and Lady Mary was saying its fine, no rush, Henry and I will go somewhere else. Fortunately, it never came to Lady Mary and Henry curled up under a horse blanket in the back seat of his roadster. But we did get the whole crew on New Years Eve, smiling and kissing and laughing and just generally looking, as Lord Grantham said, like this was the hour when the ships came in. For the record, Violet had the last spoken line, Moments after even Carson had conceded that Downton must acknowledge change, Isobel mused that arrival of a new year symbolized moving forward. Hughes sang the first lines of. The song continued as the camera pulled back, then way back, then outdoors, receding into the soft, dark Yorkshire night. Were just a few hours away from the first dawn of 1. Marseille Tv Series Episodes. April 1. 91. 2, we wont be there. It was, at last, one too many mornings, and while we knew the day would come, we also knew we wouldnt like it.