Email this article to a friend  Early-20th-century fictional
characters named Jack and Rose find forbidden love on a boat, in
an entirely original storyline. (Courtesy of ©Nick
Briggs/Carnival Film and Television Limited 2013 for
MASTERPIECE)  Downton Abbey, Season 4, Episode 6: Pig Poop,
Right in the Kisser  ‘Edgy’ plotlines about abortion and
interracial romance are upstaged by pig feces.  BY Sady Doyle
Edith does what pregnant TV and/or movie characters always do,
which is consider abortion for thirty seconds before abruptly
deciding that it is wrong, wrong, wrong and fleeing from the
very idea.  Friends, allow me to begin this recap of Downton
Abbey’s latest episode by revealing one of my private theories.
Somewhere, in the far lands of Great Britain, in the dark and
intrigue-filled basement of what is no doubt a grand and
luxurious manor, there is a bulletin board. Pinned to this
bulletin board, you will find an Intro to Women’s Studies
syllabus, pilfered from a nearby liberal arts university, which
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