Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C- | 581 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Through the Looking Glass
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2013.05.19
Dawn buzzes, and after Don takes a few moments to recover from not getting his way, he tells her he's tired and is going to take a nap. I hope Dawn completes the spoiled-child profile by waking him up later with some juice. Don then starts coughing...
...which transitions seamfully into his younger, whorehouse-living self doing the same. Abigail tells the girls to back away -- it's hard for them even when it's nerdy young Dick Whitman -- and then, after listening to his breathing through a glass pressed to his back, tells him to get his bedroll and quarantine himself in the cellar. She does allow that if his fever doesn't break, they'll call the doctor, but her added statement of "better for you than for everyone," while true, isn't the most maternal offering one could hope for. Dawn's voice buzzes, and then Young Don turns around like he heard it, and the flashbacks are generally bizarre enough but this is just straight-up indulgent. I suppose that's fitting for this episode, though.
Apparently having heard his hacking, audible in multiple decades as it is, Dawn buzzes again and asks Don if he'd like some water. He declines, possibly because he's never heard of anyone drinking the stuff straight. He then sits against the desk like he's going to die. Don, enough with the middle-distance stares already -- if you're going to take a nap, TAKE A FUCKING NAP.
In Rye, despite his protests, Sally orders Bobby to fetch Gene's suitcase. A re-blonded Betty -- she looks like she's lost the fat suit too, at least in the face -- then enters, and when Sally asks where "Daddy" is, Betty informs her that she's going to be taking them. Not that this necessarily means anything, but it doesn't seem like picking up the kids during a work day is something that Don would have agreed to, so does that mean that Sally's taken to referring to Henry as such? I think it's beyond argument that she likes Henry a lot better than Don these days, so I guess it wouldn't be surprising. Sally tosses a disparaging comment Betty's way, but Betty's too focused on the short-ish skirt Sally's wearing, asking if Megan bought it for her. Sally replies that she earned the money for it babysitting, as Megan pays her to watch her brothers. Betty's apparently too focused on her petty dislike of Megan to bring up any safety concerns with the arrangement. You don't much need me to tell you that's going to change.