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slash spoiler plus. Hello and welcome to a Slate Plus spoiler special for season 5 of Downton Abbey.

And we are today going to be talking about episode four we being me, June Thomas, and

the great Seth Shrimpie Stevenson. Hello, Seth. So we've finally seen Shrimpi. We have,

Shrimpies. He's on the scene. He's Shrimpies on the scene, and we remember that his nickname is

an ironic one. Shrimpie has quite a presence. He really does.

He's a large imposing man.

I actually even noticed the way he held his glass of brandy was even. Yes, me too.

You noticed that he held it by not the stem, but by the base of it.

It was somehow, I feel like I'm going to hold all my glasses that way now.

Shrimpie has deeply affected me.

Shrimpie is a man of great charisma.

He's also a man of great patience since he has lived for so long with the horrible Susan.

But he's no longer in Bombay, we now call it Mumbai.

He's no longer there. Roger Countess is one of the characters on Downton who does surprise us at times with her ability to see the good and all and to like take, you know, she supported Branson when you might have thought she'd be the last person to support Branson.

She sort of took up with Branson and Edith.

And yes, exactly.

And now Shrimpie, even though Shrimpie is not her blood relation, she still has a soft spot for Shrippy, as do I, now that I've met him, who could not have a soft spot for Shrumpy.

Shrimpi Flintshire.

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