Dramatic Dinners! | Downton Abbey

There has certainly been turbulence at the table more than once at Downton... enjoy this compilation of some of the most dramatic dinners we've witnessed!

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The costume drama series, Downton Abbey, written and created by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes, stars Academy Award-winner Maggie Smith as a Dowager Countess of an Edwardian English country house in 1912. The series portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them, in a time before the last vestige of a century’s old tradition were stripped away by World War and the modern age. The all-star cast also includes Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern.

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[pawnshopleo]

"Forgive? Perhaps. Forget? Never!"

Truly iconic.

[syedmazharhasan]

I love how Dr Clarkson, Barrow and Mrs Crawley immediately step into action mode since they are medically trained. That is such a great detail.

[bunnycortland]

What Robert says to Cora while they're on the floor is all the more meaningful when you remember that he didn't marry her out of love but for her money

[orthohawk]

I love the way Lord Merton leaps up and just rips Larry a new one.

[NotoriousBroadcasts]

That first scene is totally epic, they made sure he coughed all the way across the table to hit Cora. It’s like the red wedding but with coattails.

[ToowokeforFlorida]

I love those moments when Robert and Granny are “reminded” the three girls have an American mother.

[kunkkufani]

Mrs Crawley ”Bravo, well said!” gets me every time 😂😂😂

[secondhandrose]

I lost it at "... and suddenly we've slipped into a foreign tongue" It was quite my undoing. LOL

[aqueen]

I love that when Robert is completely overwhelmed, on the ground and coughing up so much blood, the desperate words he gasps out are words of love for Cora. He's afraid he might die, so he uses what strength he has to let her know how much he loves her. When you're on that precipice, the most important thing on your mind is your loved ones.

[rubygracemoseley]

“I do not endorse Tom’s language but that is certainly how we all feel!” I love that line!

[jonmunoz]

2:59 I love how robert never liked tom in the beginning but he still rose out of his seat in defense of tom being insulted by an outsider, its like when an older sibling picks on his siblings but if someone else does it then watch out.

[andrewjones-productions]

Matthew and Tom's friendship was something wonderful to behold. Tom was so unfortunate to have lost both a wife he loved dearly and someone who was his best friend, or would have been if time would have allowed it to have developed that far.

[fegakatrey]

Larry’s comments about Isobel’s “class” reveal his own LACK of class… despicable. And the remaining snot w/comment “…what did you expect?” Umm, CIVILITY and respect for his father’s choices? My chest aches during that scene as Isobel silently takes it, which is a sign of ACTUAL class.

[jeremysaysrawr]

“Could it be drink?!” Violet is who I aspire to be.

[o.mcneely]

There should be a photo of Larry at the front door saying “DO NOT ALLOW PAST THIS POINT”.

[amyw]

Every time Larry gets invited to dinner, the actor playing him must have so much fun - he’s so vile!

[davidhutchinson]

Larry was just lucky he lived in the 20th century and not the 19th or 18th. He absolutely would have been called out and show in a duel. Believe that.

[kathrynmolesa]

Maggie really was the comic relief in this series. She was an entitled, elitist snob and didn’t care that she was. It was the times they lived in.

[MarkT]

7:21 I certainly have my issues with Mary, but she never degraded or talked down to the servants. You can tell at this moment she was SHOCKED and appalled.

[sarahc]

I love the scene where Thomas and Mary synchronously turn indignantly to Lord Sinderby.