Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 491 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT A Change Is Gonna Come
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2009.11.01
...and we cross-fade to later, with Betty coming out of the bathroom to find Don and Henry, and let's just say the blocking for the scene is not the most subtle directorial choice I've ever seen on the show, with Don and Henry standing close enough that there's "suspense" involved in her walk over to them, like she'd ever do something to make a public spectacle of herself here. Don is chatting obliviously while Henry stares at her in such a way as to render his earlier looks at her positively undetectable, like, he even turns toward her just as Don does the same, and I'm rarely one to criticize the show on a technical level but give me a break here. I mean, she waits for like five seconds before starting forward and they show the two of them waiting expectantly again. Ugh. Anyway, of course she goes to Don, and Harry asks Betty, "Did Jennifer fall in?" If she did and they didn't show it in favor of that bullshit just now, I'll be seriously pissed. Anyway, Betty and Don head out, and Francis turns to watch them go. Is he, like into her or something?
When we return, Roger is taking Jane into the bedroom in a fireman's carry as she babbles about how handsome JFK was. "And now I'll never get to vote for him!" HA! Jane steals the line of the episode, right there. He pitches her into bed and takes off her shoes, and I'm betting he's had some practice on that move considering he follows up its deft execution by almost tipping over from inebriation. Heh. He asks Jane if she wants him to cut her out of the dress, but she's already dreaming of a land in which JFK is still alive and you're allowed to vote for him as many times as you please no matter what age you are, so Roger, needing a bit more maturity and consciousness than she's got to offer at the moment, makes a phone call...