Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 490 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Giving Up The Ghost
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2012.06.10
Megan and Marie are sipping some wine and flipping through magazines, Marie showing off her freshly-done hair, when Don arrives home. Marie is happy to hear that he's feeling better, but adds, "Just in case, I made soup." Heh. Don goes to change for dinner and Megan follows him to ask if he's really feeling better; he swears that he is, but the scrunchy faces he makes before he sees her belie that thought. Megan screws up her courage and tells Don about Emily mentioning the commercial, and before we go on I'll say that it's interesting Don hadn't even told Megan about it before -- it shows how far out of the SCDP loop she's become. Megan stammers about how she hears it's for a European-type girl and she'd be mad at herself if she didn't ask, "and I wouldn't ask if I didn't think I'd be right for it, but I really am." Whoa. Whoa! Did Megan just completely sell her friend out there? I think she did! Maybe she has what it takes to be an actress after all! It takes a moment for Megan's words to penetrate Don's haze of tooth pain and when he turns somewhat uncomprehendingly, she sits down and tells him she only wants him to put her name in a pile, and she'll submit herself as Megan Calvet, and she just so happens to have something that shows how she looks on film. Don is surprised that she'd want to be in a commercial and goes on, "I thought you hated advertising." Megan saves me the trouble of disputing that. Whatever pain Don is in, however, doesn't seem to affect his ability to be condescending when the mood strikes him, as he tells her commercials aren't art, "and you're an artist, aren't you?" I guess we're past the point where we can pretend to be surprised at Don's disingenuousness about what's involved in pursuing an acting career, so Megan -- after wondering if he's mad at her -- tells him that all her friends would kill for a national commercial. I mean, at what they pay, I'd kill for one and I'm not even an actor.