Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 6 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Beyond The Veil
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 1-2 | Aired on 04.07.2013
On the beach, a man dressed in island garb blows a call through a conch (too bad there wasn't an island train going through a tunnel they could have shown), which signals the beginning of a luau, with of course an attendant music and dance performance. Seated at a picnic bench with other hotel guests, Don and Megan watch enthusiastically (with the expected difference in level between the two of them) as a large roast pig is carted by, and then the emcee tells the crowd that everything on their plates is what they'd see at a royal Hawaiian feast. After a little Catskills-come-to-Waikiki about the word "ono," the dude next to Don talks about the Royal Hawaiian, which apparently is the hotel at which they're staying; he counsels them just to eat the pig, as the poi is "wallpaper paste." Being that he's apparently one of the hotel's executives, I'd think he'd default to a little more culturally sensitive setting, but I have to admit I've never actually had poi. The emcee jabbers about guided tours for a bit...
...before we cut to later, when day has given way to night but the show is still going on. One of the local women encourages Don to join the dance, but although he expectedly refuses, Megan gets up to participate. Don watches, his face ranging from disapproving to mildly enthusiastic, as the emcee, who describes himself as "the Hawaiian Elvis," gives Megan some instruction in moving her hips like a local. Then, no sooner has Megan returned to the table than does a middle-aged blonde woman accost her and address her as "Corinne," so I guess Megan's now famous enough that she's experiencing the joys of people calling her by her character's name instead of her real one. The woman babbles about how she must be bothering Megan while continuing to bother her, hilariously asking her if she knows how much "trimmer" she looks in person than on TV before saying that "To Have And To Hold" is just her favorite, and while she knows Megan is new to "Berkshire Falls," she can tell - Megan just "has a way." Like most actors, Megan has to project some air of being inconvenienced to cover how much she actually loves this, and she consents to sign an autograph for the woman's niece as Don looks like he'd be checking his watch if the thing still worked. It's as good a time to get this out of the way - I found this episode a disappointment; it's uncharacteristically ham-fisted with the points it makes and is far too long for what it accomplishes. Pursuant to that, I'll point out that this is the fourth scene of the episode and Don, other than his VO, literally hasn't said a word; it's fine for him to be generally taciturn and to have death on his mind, but the hotel's paying for everything as an SCD(P?) client. A little schmoozing goes with the territory, and he's acting like he's hourly. The fan babbles a bit about show plotlines, but Don's attention is on a dancing Hawaiian woman...
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