Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 465 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT I Am Become Death
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2012.05.06
Peggy's still in the office when the phone rings and she regards it like it might bite her but does pick it up; however, she declines to voice a greeting and then, upon hearing Don's voice on the other end (he's lying in bed with a drink and THAT should be an ad for something), Peggy yells, "Pizza Haus!" in what I think is an awful German accent? That was hysterical in more than one sense. Peggy is all "WTF was that" at herself (as well she might be) and then when Don calls again, she declines to answer, instead reading it as her cue to call it a night. If it takes something like that to get her out of the office, I'm surprised she ever even goes home.
Pete and Beth have finished their, um, hysterics and Beth admits she "used to be like this. Reckless." She seems to be recalling those times fondly, but when Pete happily strokes her face and asks her to say something she tells him she's had men paying attention to her time out of mind. "They don't care what I say. They just watch my lips move." If you didn't make a Julia Ormond joke there, you're a better person than I. Pete sincerely (and yet still smarmily) tells her he's listening to every word, so Beth tells him that his blue eyes remind her of the recent photos taken of the Earth from space and if ALEXIS BLEDEL is complimenting your eyes you should be flattered indeed. She wonders if it bothered him to see the Earth "tiny and unprotected," speaking of things it's probably best not to think about. Pete doesn't seem to share Beth's existential concerns, but pays attention when she tells him their little tryst can never happen again. Pete at first acknowledges that and starts to get dressed, but admits he doesn't want to leave her; however, she tells him she's fine and calmly thanks him for the ride home before demonstrating that she has no idea how to stage-smoke a cigarette.