Alright, if an appeal to well-rounded and realistically depicted characters isn’t your bag, then try this one out: if nothing else, watch the show for the hotness that is Lady Sybil. The youngest of the three Crawley sisters, she’s naturally the most rebellious, a quality typically conducive to extreme hotness. While her elder siblings, Mary and Edith, are constantly fighting, Sybil is a quiet peacemaker, bridging the tension between the two competing factions, and doing so with forcefulness and grace.
She loves her family but ultimately doesn’t give a damn what they think when it comes to what she decides to do with her life. She’s liberal minded (hot) and a vocal supporter of women’s suffrage (way hot). She isn’t afraid to upend her family’s traditional tendencies, and demonstrates this by wearing pants (yowza). Oh, and she bangs the family’s hired driver. Don’t even try to tell her what to do. Jessica Brown Findlay plays her most admirably, recasting all those false caricatures of feminism as angry and scornful into a soft but firm voice saying “I’m sorry you feel that way, but I’m going to do what I decide is best.” Like I said: babe.
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