Yeah, they used to show more of the neighborhood socialization, with Francine, and with the shunning of the divorcee. It seems like there would be more of that going on. Socializing, not shunning, I mean.
I wish we were seeing a happily married couple, though. A well-adjusted adult. Was everybody really so miserable all the time, with only flashes of laughter to ameliorate the grimness?
Did Betty ever stop with the tremors and stuff? Was psychoanalysis enough for that, and it wasn't anything else?
It's such an interesting conversation, difficult as it is. Peggy's sister & Peggy have chosen disparate paths, and Peggy's denial means that Peggy's sister is subsidizing Peggy's choice, whether or not she wants to.
Exactly. It's just so messy and complicated.
They're getting pretty close to making Betty completely unlikeable.
Pretty close? Man, I think just about everyone other than Harry is completely unlikeable. What's amazing about the show is that it makes all of these characters who are utterly appalling 85% of the time so damn compelling.
What's amazing about the show is that it makes all of these characters who are utterly appalling 85% of the time so damn compelling.
Seriously, you'd think it was HBO.
It's interesting. I wouldn't like Betty or want to be friends with her, but in my mind, she isn't a bad person. In the sense that she hasn't done anything reprehensible, while most of the other characters have. She's sometimes not very bright, and her insecurities lead her into stupid situations, but not a bad person.
Also, why does every married man cheat on his wife. I can't recall seeing a situation where a married man has the opportunity to to cheat, yet chooses not to.
Also, why does every married man cheat on his wife. I can't recall seeing a situation where a married man has the opportunity to to cheat, yet chooses not to.
Same reason
everyone
smokes? Even at the height of its popularity, I'm pretty sure smoking levels never went over 50% of adults.
Was everybody really so miserable all the time, with only flashes of laughter to ameliorate the grimness?
I think that's the beauty of having set it against the backdrop of an advertising agency--that veneer of pretty they worked so hard to sell being the complete antithesis of what "real life" was like.
Fuels the cynicism-- I think it's part of what made that dinner scene with the couple who owned the peanut company so heartbreaking. They were, while a successful well-off couple, too normal to fit into New York. (Weren't they from Pittsburgh?)
Yeah, them. Where the Lenny Bruce-like comic called the wife a Hindenburg.
