Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 425 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Beyond The Veil
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 1-2 | Aired on 2013.04.07
The crazy aunt then pipes up that she's got a few words to say, so Roger invites her to "roll on over here" just as Mona and her current husband turn up. After they greet Margaret and her husband Brooks, Roger introduces "Mrs. Hazel Tinsley" - so much for the Aunt Jessica theory, and WHERE IS SHE - who flew up from Palm Beach for the occasion. Hazel launches into a speech about how Roger's mother spent her life "devoting herself to one man but loving another," and goes on that when Roger Sr.'s "brief life" ended, it was Roger Jr. to whom his mother devoted her existence; her friends counseled her to find another man, but she told them her heart was full, "because my son is my sunshine." And with that, Don's stomach gives up the ghost, and he horks right into a nearby umbrella stand. Well, at least they're built for this kind of thing. The SCDP boys hurriedly get Don out of there as he mumbles a drunken but sincere apology, but while all the death and mother talk may have been difficult subjects for him to hear discussed, I think "my son is my sunshine" has to accept its share of blame for this mess. Roger invites Hazel to resume (by the way, you'd never recognize her, but the actress, Barbara Tarbuck, recently played Mother Superior Claudia on American Horror Story: Asylum), but she wonders if Don's all right, and then Roger decides that he's not done with scenes, as he decides to call Mona's husband "Bruce Pike" out for showing his face there. He barks that the gathering is supposed to be for family only, and I guess it's convenient for his argument that the SCDP people just bailed, but no one supports him, so he pulls the ultimate acting-out move and yells for everyone to depart. When no one moves, he runs out himself, leaving everyone to wonder how ugly that would have gotten if he'd actually been lubricated.