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
Back to the assignations (the intercutting happened all through what I just described, but the restaurant part is over now), and Sylvia apologizes, saying she had no right to be jealous. I agree, but how disappointing that that seemed to be her only sticking point after Megan's tearful episode rather than any complexity involving sympathy for Megan, and how pedestrian that one of the examples of someone taking a stand is Don telling yet another woman on this show that it's his way or the highway. She cautions him they can't fall in love, and then the climax happens as the opera music that's been playing through the scene reaches a crescendo. It's probably not a good sign that we're three episodes in and I'm exhausted by these two already.
Pete is nervously watching Carson, and the fact that he's somberly discussing wartime news rather than delivering a hilarious monologue can't be a good omen for Pete's fate. Carson tells the audience that before they get some new information about JFK's assassination, they're going to watch a special report on the Vietnam situation, and he'll return in fifteen minutes...
...but we don't know if Pete stays up to watch it, as we cut to him in bed with the lights off when Trudy finally returns. Of course, he's awake and she surely knows it, but she says nothing as she turns off the light and heads into the bathroom. Pete, as fearful as you are and should be, surely you know the basic truth that putting the reckoning off only makes it worse.
Don arrives home to find Megan sitting in the living room in her bathrobe, and after a brief inquiry and explanation of the evening, Megan confesses the news about the miscarriage. Don's face does a reasonable job of caring as it pauses before asking if she's okay and if she went to the doctor. After confirming both and telling him she was six weeks along when it happened, he offers that he wishes she'd told him she was pregnant, so, voice breaking, she continues to come clean, saying she wasn't sure what he would have said, or what he would have wanted. He replies that she should know he'd want what she'd want, which sounds supportive but really is classically revealing of how hollow he is inside, and asks if she does want to have a kid. She tells him she does, definitely, but isn't sure if now is even the right time to discuss it, "and I guess that's why I didn't tell you. But I should have." He agrees and tells her he'll have the conversation if she wants to, and she smiles and leans onto his shoulder. "Now I can go to sleep." Again, it'd seem more positive if Don didn't already look ready to chew his own arm off to escape this.