I didn't even get to the end, because my hate for Betty is so severe it feels like misogyny.(I know that even women internalize shit like that, but I can't help thinking that if they wanted to humanize her by making her fat, it's not working at all.) Like I know I was supposed to feel something in that little thing where Betty sees Megan all lithe and flexible, but it just looked like a bad actress in latex and probably the world's ugliest coat, making that constipated face Ms. Jones makes when she has feels.

Like I know I was supposed to feel something in that little thing where Betty sees Megan all lithe and flexible, but it just looked like a bad actress in latex and probably the world's ugliest coat, making that constipated face Ms. Jones makes when she has feels.

Actually her best acting moment was the very last scene where she tries really really hard to enjoy her three bites of Thanksgiving dinner and just can't.

That'll teach me not to finish, then.

Well, it wasn't my favorite episode either. And Betty's Best Scene is never going to be as good as Joan's Best Scene. Betty hasn't had a Fuck Yeah moment since she started shotgunning birds.

She hasn't. Although I liked her when she was able to share the Beatle-ticket moment with Sally. And I felt bad when she wanted to talk to Dr. Edna.

I would love for Betty to get a real storyline and not be reduced to Bitchy Ex-Wife But She's Fat Now So Feel Bad For Her Being Fat.

January Jones is not the best actor in the cast, but she is able to play emotions other than Hungry and Angry, if only Weiner would write her some.

Yeah, I'm beginning to feel that she is, like, standing in for Bitch-kind in a very uncomfortable way that's really heightened my response (and, though I love sympathetic characters, everyone on "The Wire" got to be both sympathetic and not) and even sticking to *this* show, I don't like Pete at all. But I do stop short of wishing VK would walk off the show and not come back... Hamm is really excellent at drawing us into Don's drama against what feels like our better instincts...not everyone can do that... I get that. Not everyone can be fresh and eager like Peggy, or molten sexuality like Joan. Roger is the closest of the dudes to being one-note like Betty, but he got a real story this year. (Although if he wanted to be martini comic relief, I'd be down with it...he kind of tickles me. Although I'm not sure if I like Roger, or have always enjoyed watching JS work.

I found Betty more sympathetic than I have in a while in this one. Not for manipulating Sally, obviously, but a lot of this episode she seemed to be really trying to be a responsible adult. Failing, sometimes, but trying.

Betty is no more venal than a lot of people on this show--I think Jones' lack of acting depth means that we are on the outside with her always, whereas Don and Pete let us glimpse the fear and the guilt and the need underneath the facade.

I think Weiner or the casting folks made the same mistake Don did and picked her cause she had a nice ass...Don got over faster than the writers(so far)