Roger drops acid, Megan drops sherbet, and more highlights from the latest episode.
How did you feel about the unconventional-but-still-appropriate-for-mass-audiences format of last night's episode? I figured out what was going on once I noticed that Megan was wearing the same dress in the first two-thirds of the episode. (From a fashion perspective: BOO to that.) And then it dawned on me that this was one of those things where we get to see how everyone's day went independently of everyone else's! Thank God it wasn't an insultingly literal dream sequence. And thank God Jane finally got some air time. Onto this week's likability index!
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Megan is more self-aware than we all thought! Not only does she feel bad about leaving her colleagues to go upstate with Don, but also, she finally she gets mad at Don for treating her like a plaything instead of an equal. “You like to work, but I can’t like to work,” she says when they’re at Howard Johnson'a, and Don starts taking notes about the place so he can come up with an ad campaign for it — the first sign of him doing work practically all season. Ironically, she was able to sum it up much better than him, when she says it’s not a “destination,” as he states, but a place that’s on the way to another place. Don tells her she shouldn’t be upset to have been ripped away from work and, “There’s got to be some advantage to being my wife.” To which Megan is rightfully appalled, and forced to take out her rage on the only thing available to her: orange sherbet. I was so proud of her when she told Don it was disgusting and asked for chocolate. Of course it’s disgusting! Who likes that? It’s the kind of thing you eat when you really want a dessert and that’s all that’s around. Like if you’re at a wedding or some similar sort of event and have no choice over what dessert you get and that comes and you eat it because it’s in front of you. Don is all the more suspicious for liking it.
Instead of taking her anger out on Don post-abandonment in some vengeful fashion — cheating on him, finding people to party with, running home to her mom — she suffers through a six-and-a-half hour bus ride back to New York, arriving to Port Authority at 5 something in the morning where everyone thinks she’s a hooker. She’s rightfully furious with Don when he finally arrives home, and though the ensuing scenes were absurd, they were eerily believable. The chase scene was insane but also (to audiences, almost insultingly) symbolic of their relationship: Don chasing her, terrified of losing her, but also in increasingly tenuous control of her.
In another stroke of blatant symbolism, the two return to work that day where they’re obviously miserable, but have to pretend like they’re not because other people are around. Of course Don puts his wife in a situation every day where she has to conceal her misery from everyone around.
Likability score: 90%
Don
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