Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 6 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT We're Not Gonna Take It
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 04.14.2013
...and then we cut to Pete contemplating the remains of his horrible day when Benson, sunny as ever, pokes his head in and says he doesn't know how Pete does it, being the first to arrive and the last to leave. Pete sighs that he doesn't either, and remarks that he's glad it at least seems like he's doing something he loves, but Benson drops the façade, at least a little, in telling Pete that he spent a year in finance "watching identical men in identical suits sneak drinks out of a desk drawer while counting other people's money. You make this look a whole lot better." Pete does look like this speech makes his day at least one percent less of a wreck, but when Benson offers to get him something from downstairs, he asks if he'd grab him some toilet paper, since he was supposed to get some for his wife and he forgot. Benson's happy to do it, and he probably wouldn't even care if he knew that it was for Pete's new permanent-residence bachelor pad, but even so, Pete looks lost and alone as the scene comes to an end. Too late, but now he knows to underestimate Trudy at his peril.
Don stops by Sylvia's back door (literally, my God, you guys) and makes a date for the next morning...and then we cut back to the whorehouse, wherein Don watches through a knothole as the pregnant Abigail gives it up to Mack. The blonde hooker from earlier amusedly chastises him in passing...
...and then we're back to the present, where the original "Just A Gigolo" plays as Don reaches his door...and then decides to sit out against the hallway wall instead of going in. I mean, I've been covering him for over five seasons now, and he's getting harder to figure out, not easier -- which isn't a compliment -- but I suppose, given the positioning of the flashback just now, that he's tired of being a collaborator to his own lies and transgressions. Too bad, Don - talk and heavy-handed gestures are cheap, so do something about it. And I'd suggest by starting with losing the flashbacks - they never accomplish as much as you seem to think. See you next week.
John Ramos is a writer and film producer living in Los Angeles. His new film, a documentary on online privacy and the sale of personal data called Terms And Conditions May Apply, recently premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in January. You can get news on it from the film's Twitter account. Also, you can email John at couchbaron@gmail.com, follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/couchbaron, or check out his blog, "Pull Up A Chair," which he'd just love for you to stop by.