Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 677 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Man-Boy Becomes A Man
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2010.08.15
...and inside, Dr. Miller introduces herself as "Faye," and then makes a show of looking around for a nonexistent nametag. "I guess they forgot about me." The women chuckle as the observers in the other room look like they want to take a shower, and it is rather disturbing the way Dr. Miller is playing into the way these women feel they should be subservient and stupid by concealing the fact that she is not those things. I'm not saying it's unrealistic, just unsettling, and it does have the intended effect, as one of the participants offers that they spelled her name wrong. Faye (if that's how she's going to refer to herself here, I'll take the opportunity to type fewer characters) tells the women they should relax and feel like they're among friends; in the other room, Peggy absently tries on Faye's ring until she notices Don looking at her with a shit-eating smirk. Well, at least Freddy didn't catch that, or she'd really never hear the end of it. Faye pours the girls some water as she says they're going to talk about the things they do to keep themselves beautiful, and offers that she has a routine -- she brushes her hair as many times as she did when she was a girl, "but of course, only the nights before I have it set." Boy, is this scene making me miss Gretta, the Commandant of Focus Groups. In the other room, Freddy sighs, "Can you imagine? Your financial future is in the hands of a roomful of 22-year-old girls." Don, amused: "Not mine." And a good thing too, considering most of them have a voodoo doll of you full of pins.