Notes January 16, 2012 Vanity Fair’s “Downton Abbey S2, E2 Recap” They understand my bb Branson UNLIKE NY MAG WHO IS NOW DEAD TO ME! “And No. 1 on the Most Handsome Couple Leaderboard, Branson and Sybil! After the ruddy chauffeur declares he’ll conscientiously object the draft when it comes, he’s rejected for conscription because of a heart murmur, despite looking virile enough to us during his half-unbuttoned physical. His last-ditch effort is to dump cow-poop soup onto a visiting general, a endearingly silly plan that is ixnayed by Anna and Carson. Meanwhile, he continues his flirty arguments with Sybil—about the carnage of Ireland’s Easter Rising, or the cardiac implications of a mitral valve prolapse, except, sexy.” Filed under Downton Abbey Vanity Fair Allen Leech Tom Branson