Hello and welcome to a Slate Spoiler special for the final episode in season five of Downton Abbey.

I am June Thomas and I am here with a man who looks dashing in tweeds, evening dresses, or tea gowns.

Please, June, this isn't the 1890s?

Tea guns. Seth, Seth.

Seth, Seth, Seth.

Hello, June, I'm so happy to chum you on this podcast.

I was going to chum Tom.

No, I thought you were chumming me.

I'll chumming me. Okay. I think of that is, isn't that chum when you grind up fish guts and use it to troll for sharks?

I believe so.

So if I was chumming you, it's more like I threw you doing a meat grinder and then fed you to marine life or something.

Anyway, I'm so happy to chum you.

For the very last time in this season, this series of Downton Abbey, Series 5, as the Brits say.

Yeah, exactly.

Episode 9, as they say, with their imaginative titles.

Let us chum one another.

So, June, before we really get into the meat of the episode, the chum of the episode,

let me ask you, as our resident, Brit, this was the Christmas episode, the Christmas special.

Here in America, the way we do things is a lot of times the Christmas episode of a show will be a sort of funny one-off that's separate from the ongoing arcs of the characters.

You know, we just take a time out and we have a fun little Christmas episode

that maybe doesn't relate to the rest of the series. So a lot of times they'll do kind of a Dickensian

type thing or it's a wonderful life type thing. So I would love to hear from you a little bit about

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