Downton Abbey Christmas Special aka ARGH FINALLY YOU TWO.

It was a 1 hour 32 min worth of angsty angsty angsty angst. Until the last 5 minutes where everything was just joy joy joy JOY.

All the wait, the exhausting flailing of emotions and the need to just smack the both of them on the head, FINALLY it happened. But before we get on to that (with visuals!) I need to say that Mrs Patmore deserves a gold star for her trolling ouija board ways. That woman should NEVER be messed with when you just won't listen to what she tells you to do.

And Thomas and Isis and Fenton 2.0. That was hilarious. Not only was Thomas vulnerable but it made for comic relief because seriously, a man running around for the dog like that? I know Isis should have a role but I didn't know that Julian Fellowes will actually troll in that manner.

Anna and Bates left me weeping everytime they came on screen so let's not get into that.

Mary and Matthew. Mary and Matthew.




This was pretty much when you knew that something was hopefully going to happen. The way she looks at him when he's not looking tells us that
a) MICHELLE DOCKERY FOR ALL THE AWARDS
b) Damn Dan Stevens has a nice side profile
c) AHHH! MARY AND MATTHEW <333333

And then it was bla bla bla Matthew interrupts Mary and Richard fighting bla bla  bla Matthew wants to see Mary bla bla Matthew interrupts Richard fighting again bla bla bla MATTHEW PUNCHES RICHARD bla bla ugly vase that Maggie Smith hated bla bla bla St Lavinia's grave and Mrs Crawley telling Matthew he's an idiot since two old ladies need to tell him that Mary still loves him (no she didn't but she did say something to that nature) bla bla DANCE YOU TWO, DANCE. Then...




The LOOK he gives her. I want to eventually be on the receiving end of that look. *Weeps* And he starts being all school boy "Must you go?? Why can't you stayyyyyy?" on her which then reminds you of how eerily this is beginning to sound like the last scene in the last episode of season 1 where you were more upset about them breaking up than you were about the war.

And then Matthew said "Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you," and Mary's all "But you must do the whole shebang because I've only been waiting for this for like 8 years and I don't care if I'm freezing to death in this dress, YOU MUST KNEEL DOWN AND DO THIS PERFECTLY SO THE FANS WILL CRY AND FLAIL."

And he did.



*cue Firah*



And then OBVIOUSLY she said yes




And I was pretty much like this




But it was awesome and it was exhausting because I mean that was 8 years worth of angst there but in the end YAYY!!! So now, we wait. Because we know that Julian Fellowes will find a way to frack things up for these two in September. Until then, we shall live in this beautiful Mary and Matthew bubble we have created.