Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 3 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT A Lucky Strike
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2007.07.19
Don's on a commuter train, and we cut to him getting off at Ossining. Are we to meant to infer anything about how Don views his home life from the fact that he lives in a town that's home to one of the most notorious prisons in the country? Do I really need to ask these questions? Anyway, it's pouring rain as Don rushes to his car. Sometime later, he pulls up to his house, and oddly dissonant jazzy music is playing as he heads inside and wipes his feet. Anyway, the music fades...
...and we cut the bedroom, as Betty (January Jones) sleepily clicks on a bedside lamp and says she called the office, and they told her he'd left. Yes, Don is married, and he leans in for a kiss as Betty goes on that she assumed he was staying in the city "again," but she smiles as she says she left a plate in the oven for him. They kiss a little, but then Don says he'll be right back...
...and we cut to him heading upstairs and fondly tucking in his young son and daughter. Betty appears in the doorway, and we pull back from this tableau and then into the lane outside as "On The Street Where You Live" kicks up and we fade to black. No wonder everyone was buzzing about this pilot last year. See you for the next one!