ES Money. The Escapist. The Reveller. The Optimist. In these storylines, Arab men are either threatening, or sites of romantic intrigue, and white men are often needed to rescue the damsel in distress. The stereotype Pamuk plays into is one thing.
Theo James is British with Greek ancestry. It seems like his casting was consistent with lazy casting that figures that any person with a tan natural or otherwise can play any ethnicity and race.
In short, the amount of roles you could play are endless. Granted, if a Turkish actor did portray Pamuk, the character itself would have to have been rewritten. But if Pamuk had a real storyline, the character could have been a great moment for Middle Eastern representation. But there are lessons we can learn from Pamuk and his characterization. TV issues. By Monique on Friday, October 6, The gorgeous and charming Lady Sybil rocked the family to its core when she shunned all of her suitors and pursued a secret romance with Tom the chauffeur instead, eventually eloping with him.
Later, they would return to Downton, and Tom would become a devoted member of the Grantham family and Downton household, even after Sybil's tragic death in childbirth.
Fortunately, Cora stepped in and shut it down before he could get anywhere near Jane's pantaloons. Somehow, Lady Edith managed to hide an affair with a married man, a full pregnancy, and the first few years of her daughter Marigold's life from her eagle-eyed sister Mary.
Because it's totally normal to go to Switzerland for a year and then spend a lot of time with the farmer's kid down the road.
Cousin Rose got us over the middle-season hump with her impetuous decisions and secret romances, including one that involved gondola rides with a charming American jazz singer. In one of a shocking, almost unwatchable episode, Lord Gillingham's sociopathic valet corners Anna during a holiday party and attacks her viciously.
Downton may be a soap opera, but with this storyline, it asked its audience to reckon with how powerless and vulnerable most women of the period were. Everyone assumes Mr. Bates is somehow involved in the valet's murder, but when Mrs. Hughes finds a train ticket to York in his pocket, our heart sank. Now that she knows he couldn't have been responsible, though, what was he doing there?
Deep down, Lady Mary is a very modern woman, and Anna is a key member of her proto-squad. We all cheered when Mary sent her loyal maid out for birth control so she could give the cute-but-boring Lord Gillingham a whirl before she commits for life. He was too meh to be more than a fling, but even we have to admit that the discreet adjoining doors at the Grand Hotel in Liverpool were kind of hot. We all felt for Tom after Sybil's shocking death, but it was kind of uncomfortable to see him fall into the hands of this master manipulator, even for a minute.
Dowager Countess may be a pillar of British society, but it turns out that she almost left her husband and kids for the wild-eyed, mysterious Russian Prince Kuragin. While the shocking moment and its aftermath played out for the delight of viewers, the real story remains shrouded by a veil of secrecy.
After refusing to leave her bed-chamber despite Mary's initial requests, his pushy advances soon thrust the couple into the throes of heated passion.
Then, Pamuk suddenly dies mid-romance.
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