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
Betty is in the Village, apparently having gone to the intersection about which Sandy told her, using the photo to inquire if anyone's seen her. No one's particularly helpful, and all that ice on the ground doesn't look fun, but Betty doesn't appear like she's going to be dissuaded...
...while, speaking of determination in the face of unpleasant errands, Mona enters Roger's bedroom and tells him everyone has left. Roger, face down on the bed, sulks that not everyone is gone, but Mona lightly remarks on the "touching tribute" before saying how Don "never tires of embarrassing himself." Roger: "He was just saying what everybody else was thinking." Hee, but it's a fairly telling comment - Roger may have acted out due to embarrassment over Hazel's speech more than anything else. Roger petulantly tells Mona she shouldn't have brought her husband, and she admits to that before offering, her eyes sympathetically filling a bit, that the loss must be very difficult for him. He claims not to feel anything, but Mona ignores this to tell him that his mother lived a long time, and she knew Roger loved her. Roger feels like she always wanted to spend time with him and he never granted that, but Mona suggests he could consider that in the context of his family. He complains that he looked at the crowd and only saw the faces of women he's disappointed, but Mona brightens as she tells him that no matter what he does, everyone loves him. "What you're seeing is them worried about how you feel about them." And this episode may be uneven and heavy-handed in spots, but the Roger-Mona relationship has always been extremely strongly written, and this scene is no exception; it's amazing to see the depth of caring the two characters have for each other even with everything he's put her through. Plus, Talia Balsam just rules. Mona explicitly counsels him to spend more time with Margaret, and when he then not-very-subtly invites her to bed, adding that it would be "soothing," she once again shows why she's the best: "Soothe yourself." She tells him he's going to clean up, and leaves the room...