Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 234 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT The Grass Is Always Greener
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2013.04.21
The one-set seduction scene is playing out, and after what we witnessed earlier, I'm surprised Mel wrote it only to include two people. Damn Standard and Practices again. Rod ends up on top of Megan on the bed, some kissing liberally interspersed, as Don watches from the wings, not looking particularly happy, although the day he's had certainly can't have helped, nor can Arlene's fairly snide-sounding whisper: "You like to watch, do you?" The AD calls a halt, and Megan giggles in relief and embraces Rod as he tells her she did great. And her acting wasn't bad either! Arlene, hilariously gleefully, then calls to Megan that her "agent" is there, and Megan's smile can't help but fade as she sees Don staring daggers in her direction, but she comes over and makes a show of taking his hand, as Arlene twists the knife by saying the scene was "steamy." If she really thinks so, maybe the four-way wouldn't have been as hedonistic as everyone thinks. Megan says she just needs to change, and Don offers to "keep [her] company," which is an interesting way of describing what's about to happen.
Once they're alone, Megan goes on the offensive by asking what he's doing there. When he wonders if she's asking because she didn't want him to see the scene, she agrees that she doesn't know why he'd do that to himself, but the real issue is that he chose this day to visit the set for the first time when she's been working there for months. Yup, that's pretty bad. He asks if she was at least going to brush her teeth before he came home, and the fact that I think this might be the most hypocritical thing he's ever said is hard even for me to believe. She fires back that she's sick of tiptoeing around him every time something good happens to her, to which he replies by calling her a whore, and while he doesn't actually say the word, I'm still not even joking. She tells him that he couldn't stop what she was doing, so he settled for ruining it, and Don tells her to have dinner with Arlene and Mel instead of him. "They're much more open-minded." That's right, Megan -- when Don cheats on you, he does it one person at a time. He leaves, and Megan breaks down...