'Downton Abbey' creator talks Season 4 [View all]
Many stateside "Downton Abbey" fans knew what was coming in Sunday night's Season 3 finale, given that it aired in England months ago and the Internet exists. But that didn't stop us all from collectively shedding a tear when Matthew, feeling jubilation over the birth of his son, died in an episode-ending car accident.
Turns out, had creator Julian Fellowes had his way, Matthew would have lived ... for one more episode.
"I had hoped that we would have one episode of this fourth season that I'm writing now, so we could have ended the Christmas episode on a happy note, and then kill him in the first episode of the next series. But he didn't want to do that," Fellowes tells The New York Times of star Dan Stevens' desire to leave the show. "I didn't want his death to dominate the Christmas special, so that's why we killed him at the very, very end. In a way I think it works quite well because we begin Series 4 six months later. We don't have to do funerals and all that stuff. That's all in the past by then."
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