Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 317 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Did You Hear?
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2008.08.17
Later, Betty joins Don in bed. He's turned away from her, but she won't let him off that easy, asking if he has anything to say. He asks what she wants to hear, and she answers something, anything. "How about you're going to help raise these children, not be one?" Interesting full circle here -- last year it was Don complaining to Dr. Wayne that Betty was like a child. Don eventually tells Betty that his dad beat the hell out of him. "All it did was make me fantasize about the day I could murder him." Betty, giving this admission the respect it deserves, says she didn't know that, and Don adds that he wasn't half as good a kid as Bobby. Betty digests all this, and then puts her arm around him and lies there...
...and then it's Sunday at church, and outside, amid a sea of bonnets and flowers, Father Gill wishes Peggy a happy Easter. She compliments him on the colloquialism of his sermon, and he responds by giving her an Easter egg, "for the little one." She looks somewhat blank for a moment, no doubt unsure how he could possibly know, but once he's walked away, she looks after him with such despair and heartbreak that I almost flinched. Hey, it's not like Peggy normally wears her heart on her sleeve. I hope this development is positive, that it finally gives her the opportunity to unburden herself -- even that they're coming together is an example of God's work, as Father Gill might opine. But then I'm forced to ask myself if I've watched this show before.