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* [[Girls Need Role Models]]: Sybil and Gwen. Whilst Mary and Edith partake in the [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]], Anna pines hopelessly after Mr Bates, and Daisy is relentlessly manipulated by Thomas, it comes as a relief to watch Sybil and Gwen form an inter-class friendship based on Gwen's desire to become a typist and Sybil's interest in women's emancipation.
* [[Hollywood Homely]]: Though not a dark beauty like her sisters, Edith really is rather lovely in her own way. The way the family talks, though, you'd think her face would send would-be suitors running for the hills.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Mary's brutal passive-aggressive mockery of Sir Anthony at the garden party. While Edith definitely deserved to be taken down a peg, her suitor did not, and it verges on [[What the Hell, Hero?]] level cruelty.
* [[Les Yay]]: Sybil and Gwen.
** Cora and O'Brien as well.
** YMMV, but Mary and Lavinia share what seems almost like a [[Romantic Two
* [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bitch]]: The Dowager Countess.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Some fans consider O'Brien to have crossed this by {{spoiler|deliberately causing Cora to slip and lose her unborn baby.}} She did seem remorseful about it, however.
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* [[Squick]]: Bates' ill-advised use of a "limp corrector."
* [[Tear Jerker]]: Holy smokes, episode seven. When {{spoiler|Robert was crying over the dead baby. And then war breaks out and he has to announce it to everyone.}}
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Shows up consistently in general fan response to the second season. Some elements of the series are altered drastically with the advent of [[World War One]], although a great deal remains the same, which, in turn, has spawned an outcry from other portions of the fandom, who protest that the narrative glosses over or speeds by too many major global events to be considered realistic. An unfortunate but unavoidable side-effect of setting a drama series during a time of extreme social and political upheaval.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: All over episode three with the perceptions of Pamuk and his dealings with Mary. Sex by coercion is still rape.
** Likewise, the way that all the characters who aren't immediately content with a life of servitude (Thomas, O'Brien, {{spoiler|Ethel}}) are portrayed as evil, villainous or stupid betrays a great deal of class anxiety on the part of the writers. (Well, except Gwen, but her ambitions were rather less grand than the other examples.)
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