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
Don and Megan have returned from points warm to New York, and when they walk into their building, Megan tells the doorman a bit about the weather before asking how he's feeling. You probably would have come to this conclusion on your own, but the episode immediately hurls us into a flashback in which we see the doorman had a heart attack right in front of Don and Megan - it was Megan's scream we heard at the beginning - before the bald guy, who we'll learn is a "Dr. Rosen," intervened and saved him, co-opting Don as his nurse in the process. And no, before you ask, I couldn't mention Don as a nurse without picturing him in scrubs, but given certain pictures of certain areas of Jon Hamm's anatomy that have popped up around the internet for the past year, I have the feeling he'd kind of take to that attire. Rosen tells his wife "Sylvia" (Linda Cardellini!) to call an ambulance, but it's Megan who springs to action as Rosen exhorts "Jonesy" to snap out of it...
...and then we're back in the present, with Megan expressing slightly discomfited surprise that he's back to work already and Jonesy giving her a new script that came in for her the day before. Don, for his part, doesn't ask Jonesy if he's ever read Dante's Inferno, but I bet he's wondering.
Betty's brushing her hair as she lightly teases Henry about the look he had on his face while Sandy was playing, which she says was very similar to Bobby's. "She's a year older than Sally. Shame on you." Henry wryly replies that no one would blame him for leaving Betty for a teenage musician, and I'm sure much of the viewing audience thinks it was awfully nice of him to qualify that sentence, particularly given Betty's follow-up that Sandy's just in the next room, and Betty's happy to hold her arms down while Henry rapes her. Henry's like, ummmmmmmmmmm, but Betty, recalling that he said he wanted to spice "things" up, continues in this vein about sticking a rag in Sandy's mouth so she won't wake the boys, and when Henry tells her that's enough, she smiles and notes he's blushing. On the one hand, I find this an interesting and non-clichéd little development - she obviously trusts Henry quite a bit to say something this fucked up to him in jest, which I don't believe is something I was convinced of before. On the other hand, the actual words make me feel like going to Confession after merely hearing that speech, and like Peggy these days, I'm not even Catholic.