Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 214 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT We're Not Gonna Take It
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2013.04.14
Cut to upstairs, where Megan is telling Sylvia about a storyline for her character, and the ins and outs of it make it no surprise to learn the genre is "daytime." Megan's smile then fades as she reveals that she had a miscarriage, and after a fairly funny bit in which Sylvia thinks she's still talking about her TV character, Megan tells her it happened in real life, and only a few days earlier. Sylvia's stunned, and she's not the only one, as it was my impression, although I don't remember it being explicitly stated, that Megan didn't want to have kids with Don, or at least wasn't ready to, but she explains that she was "sloppy" in Hawaii, with the time difference and all. This is a lot for Sylvia to take in - given her affair with Don, part of her had to wonder how often Don and Megan still have been having sex - and it doesn't get any easier when Megan confesses that she didn't even tell Don, and now she's feeling a lot of Catholic guilt over the whole experience. Sylvia probably is too - Megan's comment that "you were raised the way I was" is telling - as she assures Megan that she's not a horrible person, but Megan demurs; with her career taking off, she wasn't sure what she even wanted to do, and when the miscarriage happened, she was relieved that the decision was made for her.
Perhaps sensing how deeply Sylvia is feeling this, Megan asks if anything like that ever happened to her, and Sylvia reveals that it did, about a year after she gave birth to her son, which makes me wonder if she wanted another kid, given that she obviously never had one since. I wonder if the experience rendered her unable to have any further kids? She goes on that while she understands some of what Megan's feeling, the rest of it is foreign. "Because I was raised the same way, so I would never even consider that my decision." Not having been prepared for this confession to turn into a pro-choice/pro-life debate, Megan says she feels terrible, and she's sorry she even brought up the subject, at which point Don shows exquisite timing by arriving home. It's heartbreaking to see Megan attempt to put on a brave face as she greets him and takes his coat, and when they're alone, Sylvia's basically like, you'll excuse me to go vomit now, right? Megan says she doesn't have to rush off while Don looks like he's going to bore straight through her with his gaze in an effort to determine what exactly is happening here, but Sylvia gives nothing away - until Don says he'll see her tomorrow, and she's like, what? Where? Who? As my tennis coach says when anyone flubs a shot particularly egregiously: That's pro, Sylvia. Don reminds her about the dinner, and she's like, ohhhhh, right, hahahaha how could I forget that, and remember the part where I need to go throw up?