Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 373 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT It's a Gi…Boy!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2009.09.13
Don, Betty, and the baby arrive home, and Sally, Bobby, and FRANCINE! YES! are there to greet them, with Sally significantly giving Betty some flowers and a big hug and telling her how much she missed her. (By the way, somewhere in here was a shot of the family visiting Betty at the hospital and her waving happily at them from a second-story window, but my cable did something weird so I don't know where exactly it occurred. Sorry about that.) When they're all seated, Francine asks Betty how it was, and Betty gets a "Girl, please" look on her face before responding, "You know. It was all a fog." Francine opines that Betty's making a mistake not "forcing" Carla to stay, and I don't know about the forcing part but I agree Betty's going to be overwhelmed, but she says Carla's been away from her family for too long (perhaps the Medgar Evers assassination was the impetus for a familial visit) and she can manage, perhaps thinking what she does isn't so insignificant after all. Don goes to get Betty something to eat, taking the kids with him, and Betty and Francine look at the baby and smile...
...but in the middle of the night, the child is crying, so Betty gets up and heads down the hall. She pauses, however, and the dream music from earlier pipes up. Is she back in the fog? Or is she remembering to be happy with what she has, even if it means no sleep for a while? Regardless, she snaps out of it, and heads into the baby's room before we go to credits.
John Ramos is a writer and film producer living in Los Angeles. You can reach him at couchbaron@gmail.com.
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