What is your top 5 characters ?
Mine, I think, is :
1. Tom
2. Sybil
3. Matthew
4. Thomas
5. Violet
What is your top 5 characters ?
Mine, I think, is :
1. Tom
2. Sybil
3. Matthew
4. Thomas
5. Violet
Violet goes without saying.
Mrs Hughes.
Thomas.
Mrs Patmore.
And, in the last two series, Isobel Crawley. Love, love, love the way Penelope Wilton is adding depths to her character. Which is also what I love about Thomas.
Edith (For showing how just by carrying on through life and never giving up hope of happiness makes you an incredibly strong person.)
Molesley (a comic character, but one with depth and a very good heart who finally gets his dreams through hard work.)
Daisy (an unpopular choice, but when you think of what her childhood must have been like, and all the effort she puts into escaping from a system set against her, I think she is truly an admirable character.)
Isobel and Mrs Hughes (for the same reason as each other, compassionate and hard working women who try to help everyone and for having romantic relationships when other shows would have made their charcters nothing but a mother or a house keeper, without a life of their own. Isobel's role especially could have so easly been nothing but to be Matthew's mother.)
Bertie Pelham (Kudos to HHP for being able to make such a new character so likable and sweet. He and Laura had great chemistry and every scene they had together was a gem. The character himself is just one big cinnamon role!)
And finally... the cat in series one who tried to eat that chicken that fell on the floor. (It looked a bit like my cat.)