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You know what I would love? What would really make the world perfect? David Tennant and Michael Sheen in the new season of Downton Abbey.

I can just see them as a pair of rich-heir-turned-broke-gambler-turned-successful-businessman best friends, who, in passing, give genius financial advice to the Crawleys. It’ll be the end of the 30s – or already the 40s – the aristocracy needs that sort of help. They’ll be hella shady at first and we won’t know whether to trust them (but we don’t really care, ‘cause it’s the ineffable husbands, we would love them whatever they did) and then in hindsight they turn out to be the sweetest boys.

Just think about it. Lady Mary going for an important business meeting to secure a gold-mine of a deal and the ineffable boys will just remove all the other contenders for this particular deal to make sure she gets it.

It’ll just be a sketchy montage of the boys taking the contenders out – putting one on the wrong boat, snatching the letter explaining the meeting away from the footman carrying it to the recipient, getting one stuck with an old aristocrat lady who won’t stop talking and it would be rude to leave, etc. The possibilities are endless.

They ultimately won’t make it to the meeting themselves and will ask about it later, to which Lady Mary in her uppity way will respond: “We won the deal, naturally. No thanks to you, though. Where were you?”

We then get David’s indistinct evasive noises which go just about like this: “Dywnwnwwywm-” which Michael saves with an equally evasive, “We were about,” because the two dumbasses forgot to make up an excuse for themselves.

They are in everything these days, it would make so much sense. And I would just die.

Also featuring:

Mrs Hughes being overly protective of the quirky and sometimes socially awkward Scotsman.

David’s character finding a way to make an easter egg of a remark about the Crawleys’ name.

Thomas being envious of what the two ineffable husbands have between them before finding out that the two are, in fact, just best friends and are married to lovely blondes, Sadie and Dottie (cue cameo opportunity for the wives!).