Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 415 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT There's That Past, Informing the Present Again
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2010.08.22
Oh, dear. Sally, apparently having been to the salon, is over at her friend's for that sleepover. Her friend is crashed out on the couch, but the TV is on, and as Sally watches The Man From U.N.C.L.E., she, um, kind of...what I mean to say is, she...okay. She starts playing with herself. It's shot pretty non-explicitly, but that's still clearly what's going on, and Lord, if it was that hard to talk about, I can only imagine what it must have been like to direct. Kiernan Shipka is absolutely amazing, but...she's ten. Anyway, her reverie is interrupted by her friend's mom appearing and rather severely asking what she's doing...
...while Betty and Henry are, um, enjoying their alone time together when the doorbell rings. Henry offers to get it, which is nice of him, but I hope his robe is fairly loose-fitting, especially given what just happened with Sally. Downstairs, Henry asks if Sally's sick, and says he would have come to get her, but the woman stiffly says no, that's not it, and could she speak to Betty for a moment? When Betty appears, the woman dismisses Henry and then informs Betty that Sally was "behaving inappropriately." Betty gets a look of no surprise on her face, and despite the awkwardness of the scene I'm looking forward to seeing that wiped clean. When the woman breaks the news, Betty has to compose herself, but apologizes and says she would have done the same thing with respect to telling her were their positions reversed. The woman softens a bit and says she's sorry about the whole thing, and then Betty sees her out...