Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 10 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Toeing The Line
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 9 | Aired on 05.26.2013
Don comes home to find dinner on the table, which is apparently a regular Thursday thing, and he takes the drink Megan hands him and sits as she asks how his day was. Predictably, he turns the question around, so she tells him it was terrible, in fact, and she's not sure if she even wants to talk about it. Don tries to keep the voice cheering for "NO" inside, instead asking what's for dinner, but Megan dashes his hopes by going on that she thinks the people at work hate her. Odd to see the show going meta, but what can you do? Don disbelievingly points out that they just gave her a second part, but Megan says it makes her feel like an idiot when they tell her they can't tell "the twins" apart, especially since she feels like she's playing them very differently. She then dances around the episode's title and theme by going on that Mel told her the twins are two halves of the same person, and they want the same thing but are trying to get it in different ways. Don sighs, refills his drink, and asks if they could just go chill in front of the TV, as he's not hungry. Megan wonders if he had a bad day, but he assures her he's just tired. Tired of all these allusions that he and Ted Chaough are twins, I'd reckon. Megan seems a little disappointed, but tells him to go lie down, adding that she already packed his bag for Bobby's camp. Don tries for a reassuring smile as he tells her tomorrow's another day, but they both reveal their true feelings about that prospect by taking a liberal sip from their drinks.
In the limo on the way home (I guess this is another concession of Henry's to the fact that he's running for a State Senate seat), Henry asks the driver "John" for some privacy, and when John puts up the barrier, Henry doesn't waste much time in lighting into Betty over the fact that everyone was apparently watching her. Betty looks down and demurely says she didn't notice, but Henry leans in and asks what the douchey guy said to her, word for word. It all sounds bad, but you'll remember earlier in the season how Betty and Henry were trying to spice things up, so it doesn't surprise me that once she's come clean, they start going at it in earnest. Come to think of it, especially with Betty's exaggerated act in the car and Henry's atypical forcefulness, I wouldn't be surprised now if her encouraging the guy was part of a role-playing charade. Wouldn't be my choice, but it's better than rape scenarios.