The Downton Abbey Spoiler, Episode 6 (Season 5)
Slate's Spoiler Specials
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3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2015
⏱️ 23 minutes
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As a member of Slate Plus, you’ll get access to our Spoiler Special podcasts—including our newly launched series about Season 5 of PBS’s Downton Abbey! This Spoiler podcast will be available for Slate Plus members the moment each Downton episode ends, at 10 p.m. Eastern on Sunday nights. Each week, Slate’s culture critic and Outward editor June Thomas will chat with frequent contributor Seth Stevenson to dissect the latest developments on the new season of Downton Abbey. In this installment of the podcast, Thomas and Stevenson discuss Edith’s decision to shrug off the blanket of convention, the “cure” for homosexuality, and Lady Mary’s fetching new haircut.This podcast contains major spoilers, so listen after you watch each episode.Listen to the other episodes here.Feedback about today’s podcast? Let us know! Plus@Slate.com. Our sponsors this week are: Audible, a leading provider of spoken audio information and entertainment. Get a free audiobook of your choice at audiblepodcast.com/downton. HBO’s The Jinx. Four decades. Three murders. And one very rich man who refused to speak, until now. “The Jinx” airs Sundays at 8 on HBO, starting this Sunday (Feb. 8). For info on how to subscribe to the Slate Plus podcast feed, go here.
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| 0:00.0 | Slate's Downton Abbey's spoiler special is sponsored by Audible, a leading provider of spoken audio information and entertainment. |
| 0:07.6 | Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want, and get a free audiobook and a 30-day trial at audiblepodcast.com slash Downton. |
| 0:16.0 | And by The Jinks, The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, the new documentary series from HBO. |
| 0:21.9 | Four decades, three murders, and one very rich man who refused to speak until now. |
| 0:27.4 | The Jinks airs Sundays at 8, only on HBO. |
| 0:30.5 | Slate Plus members get early access to our Downton Abbey Spoiler specials this season, |
| 0:34.8 | immediately following the broadcast on PBS. |
| 0:37.6 | If you're not a Slate Plus member and you want early access, sign up for Slate Plus at slate.com |
| 0:43.2 | slash spoiler plus. Hello and welcome to a Slate Plus spoiler special for season 5, episode 6 of Downton Abbey, |
| 1:06.0 | or is it, in fact, a spoiler special on the War of Spanish Succession and volume five of the Cambridge history of Great Britain. |
| 1:14.2 | Spoiler alert. |
| 1:15.1 | They succeeded. |
| 1:17.9 | They did. |
| 1:18.8 | No, I'm June Thomas. |
| 1:20.5 | Thank you for joining us to discuss indeed, Downton Abbey. |
| 1:22.8 | I'm here with the great Seth Stevenson. |
| 1:24.9 | Hello, Seth. |
| 1:25.5 | Hello, Donk. |
| 1:26.8 | Hello, donk. It's such a lovely name. |
| 1:29.8 | I'm so glad that little, which small child is it that calls her or his grandpa? |
| 1:35.5 | There hasn't been a lot of differentiation of the small spoiled children. |
| 1:39.3 | Of the next generation. |
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