I loved how after Peggy's horrible discussion with her horrible mom, the sister said, "Well, that wasn't so bad!"

The mother's "you'll get raped" was so far over the line I don't even think you can see the line from there, but it was nice to see the sister at least trying to be supportive.

did you see how relatively unflustered Peggy was? She knows how her mother can be and pretty much knew what was coming.

Yes, it smacked of a conversation with my mother. You know that she'll be unhappy so you just ready yourself for whatever random shit that she's going to say to make you as unhappy as she is.

My favorite moment in this episode - Don's silent facial gesture to Sally to do what her mother said, which was loaded with sympathy and "I know what you're feeling, but please not now." Very, VERY different than yelling at her cousins the other week.

And that he went in to check on her later that night. If she'd been awake, I suspect there would have been an interesting talk.

The mother's "you'll get raped" was so far over the line I don't even think you can see the line from there

But again, so, so appropriate for the generation Peggy's mother embodies. The boroughs had very fierce senses of independence and identity, especially Brooklyn, so to Peggy's mother, the idea that her daughter is moving away to Manhattan might as well been as devastating as if she was moving to a foreign country. She sees Peggy pulling away from her and essentially rejecting everything about her upbringing.

Well... and she's a crank who dwells in the Bitter Barn.

ETA: I was wrong about when Brooklyn was incorporated into the City of New York-- it was 1898.

The boroughs had very fierce senses of independence and identity, especially Brooklyn.

Had?

(When people here ask where I used to live I always say Brooklyn. It would never occur to me to say NY.)

::snerk::

Okay, okay... Sorry, says the girl who was born, yet never lived there. Although, you're totally right, megan. When people ask where I was born, I say Manhattan and have never thought twice about it.

When people here ask where I used to live I always say Brooklyn. It would never occur to me to say NY.

Definitely. (And I also say I was born in "Manhattan" not NY.)

Hell, I moved to Queens five years ago, and will still talk about going to "the City" when I mean Manhattan. It's Different.

Hey, does Sons of Anarchy start tonight? Or did it start last night AND I missed it?