Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C- | 581 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Through the Looking Glass
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2013.05.19
Back in The Best Little Coughhouse in Pennsylvania, Mack kicks Miss Swenson out of the house over a money dispute, but not before she announces to everyone that she "took that boy's cherry." After Mack gets rid of her, Abigail starts beating up on Don with a wooden spoon, calling him trash. I'm sure I'm supposed to care about how Abigail's Puritanical hypocrisy effed Don up; if he'd do anything interesting and/or tolerable in the present, I'd consider it.
In the dark, Don sits on the bed morosely as Megan sympathetically tells him he's been working too hard, and honestly, she's part of the problem too; the fighting last season got repetitive at times, but I at least respected her for standing up to Don and his never-ending bullshit (tm Betty). He doesn't react to her and stares off into space looking SAD and FEELING EMOTIONS...
...and oh, good, another interminable elevator ride. Sylvia gets on with him and asks how he is, to which he tersely replies, "Busy." We then stay with them for an unforgivable thirty seconds, and it's clear during that time she's interested at least in some small talk, although I can't imagine why, but he's determined to turn his recent behavior into some sort of victory, so he steadfastly ignores her. I saw less predictable and more sophisticated patterns of relationship behavior in my junior high school. Don may still look good, but gone are the days when he had panache.