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
Don's in the elevator when it opens to reveal Sylvia, dressed for an evening out. She boards, whereupon he wonders why she's getting on the elevator when it's going up. A better question is why it stopped at her floor in the first place, and her lame explanation is "I pushed down," but I suppose it's not worth nitpicking the hows of these two getting together given their determination to do it in the face of it demonstrably being the worst idea ever, and I'm including anything we've seen from Roger in that assessment. Don stops the elevator (no alarm?) and pulls Sylvia into a kiss. She wonders where he's been, so he confesses that he's been working all the time. "Don't tell anyone." Heh. Sylvia informs Don that Rosen will be on call Thursday or Friday, and she'll leave a penny under the backdoor mat when the coast is clear.
Their week's calendar set, she restarts the elevator as she tells him she has to go, and when he asks if she can be more specific, she coyly replies, "No." He disembarks, but looks back with interest as she keeps the playful smile on her face. Ick, these two. Bobbie Barrett was fantastic, and although it defied belief that Midge and Don would ever even speak, I didn't mind her either, but there is just nothing interesting about Don and Sylvia together, and it is bringing me down. Dr. Faye, it's a real cliché, but he did you a favor.
Gail is trying on Kate's watch as Joan remarks that "Dennis" must be doing well, but Kate tells her the thing is actually from the company. They don't draw attention to it, which is what makes it a moment to consider, but it's interesting that Joan, who spends the episode railing about the respect she fails to get from men, immediately jumps to the conclusion that the watch came from Kate's husband. It's not an unreasonable pattern of thinking; it's just an ingrained one. Noting that it sports real diamonds, Gail asks what she had to do to get it, and Kate modestly tells her that it's a simple matter of a lot of her recruits selling a lot of Mary Kay. Joan appreciatively says that the company knows what they're doing, but while Kate agrees, she tells Joan that "working out of Spokane, there's only so far I can go." Gail tells Kate that Joan's a partner, "and I don't know if anyone would want all that extra responsibility," prompting Joan to turn to Kate and crisply ask her to visit more often. "Turns out someone's proud of me." Heh. Gail, after hilariously agreeing that she's a monster, announces that she is proud of Joan: "My daughter is a partner at a Madison Avenue advertising firm. That's something I enjoy saying." Any defensiveness on Joan's part melts away as she practically giggles that it does sound pretty good. Aw. Kate then expresses her regrets but says she has to get back to the Waldorf, so Joan wishes her luck the next day, but adds, holding up the watch, "if worse comes to worst, you're appreciated somewhere." They smile beatifically at each other, and just for how happy Joan is to see her, I want Kate to visit more often too.