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Spoiler Alert !!!The article contains spoiler for Countdown Episode 4.

I’m convinced, y’all. Evan Shepherd is Countdown’s mole. Episode 4 gave us the clearest sign yet, and it all came down to one interrogation scene.

Violett Beane’s Shepherd volunteers to question Mikhail Durko, and what she says doesn’t sound like strategy. It sounds personal. She describes, in detail, how his daughter Anya will spiral, shamed by her father’s crimes, bullied, isolated, and eventually addicted to drugs. The accuracy in her words felt too lived-in to be hypothetical.

I watched that scene and thought – ain’t no way this is just about Durko. It’s about Shepherd. She’s not bluffing. She’s remembering. Maybe her family was involved in something ugly. Maybe she knows exactly what it’s like to be an outcast. Plus, she’s already been shady. Remember in Episode 2, when Meachum asked her about surveillance logs?...

You know you’re living at Downton Abbey when a pig competition is the least messy part of your week.

Sunday’s annual Malton fat stock show took a dramatic turn when Marigold pulled a Michelle-Tanner-at-Disney-World and totally vanished, sending the entire Crawley clan into an appropriate state of panic. Fortunately, Mr. Drew knew exactly where the little nugget had run off to — or, rather, where she’d been taken.

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Edith’s daughter was found safe and sound(ish) in the arms of Mrs. Drew, who remains...

Previously: Review: 'Downton Abbey' Season 5, Episode 1 Reveals Secrets, But Fails to Scandalize Upstairs Edith gets to spend more time with her illegitimate child -- how has Mrs. Drew not worked this out yet? -- and even gets her parents to agree that she can act as a sort of patron to the girl, if only on the grounds that she's never going to marry and have a child of her own so she may as well take comfort where she can. Mary, on the other hand, is more concerned about preventing children and sends Anna off to the chemist with a copy of Marie Stopes' "Married Love" and a request for some non-specified but era-appropriate contraception. Downstairs After last week's romp with Lady Anstruther, Jimmy leaves under a cloud and in at least five different patterns of tweed. He and Thomas have a touching goodbye, where Jimmy...

"But there was no struggle. This is pure fiction." - Elizabeth Drew - "Selma vs. History", January 8, 2015 The words above come from Elizabeth Drew's "New York Review of Books" article "Selma vs. History", exploring the controversy surrounding director Ava DuVernay's new movie Selma. I've mentioned this controversy in passing on the podcast and in various articles, but I think it's finally time to address them head on, primarily because those nine words above trouble me a little bit. But before I get to that, let me make an effort to be fair to all involved. Drew is writing in regards to the relationship between President Lyndon Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) and Dr. Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo) as seen in DuVernay's new film. The full text from her opening goes like this: By distorting an essential truth about the relationship between Lyndon Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King over...

A lookalike of Britain's Queen Elizabeth drew in a crowd of thousands in China. Elizabeth Richard - who has previously doubled as the monarch in videos for Sir Elton John and Blur - was mobbed by onlookers and wellwishers flying British flags in the stunt, which was organised by VisitBritain in a bid to encourage Chinese people to visit the UK. Mark Di-Toro from VisitBritain told The Metro newspaper: 'The Chinese are enthusiastic about Britain's heritage and culture anyway. 'We had anticipated a few hundred would attend but thousands of people ended up congregating as word spread about the queen. There was a surprise element of our impersonator arriving and fooling people for however long it took them to...