YES about Don becoming Megan's burden instead of vice versa. I see the first trouble in their marriage coming from Megan wanting more out of her life than being Don's Dream Wife, rather than Don starting to screw around again or continually lying to her.

Of course, Joan's shoe! That whole scene was such a cliche of homecomings and that's where I'd mentally placed that one foot, but it was also in line with the shoe theme all through the episode.

That Cinderella pitch? Creeped me the fuck out. And then the client went, 'yeah, let's go with that!'

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Yes. It's Sally's house of horrors, more specifically.

True. There's no doubt in my mind. But I think he fact that it wasn't explicitly shown, just implied very strongly, leaves people some wiggle room to forget about it (or excuse it, even, which I've seen also).

Simple. Biology + cavemen = excuse about how it's all natural, man, we can't help it.

I really appreciate that.

I'm feeling phantom pains in my boobs when reading this. OW. Mentions of breastfeeding ususally have that effect on me, but this was like my worse nightmare ever.

Similar but different. One pertains to deceiving someone into getting pregnant - bodily harm, if you will. The other to deceiving someone into possibly ponying up a lot of cash - that is, if this deceptive mother chooses to ask for child support. Perhaps that's fraud, I'm not sure, but I don't think the two are equal.

Then again, RR had a worthwhile script. This... didn't.

Plus class stereotyping. Because the poor are so much more real and know how to enjoy life, man. They don't need any of that worldly stuff to be happy!

Kate, btw, is one of the three actresses who never, ever fail to make me cry in those perilous scenes that could be really embarrassing whem done wrong (like standing in the rain reciting poetry to your runaway lover). Emma Thompson and Cate Blanchett being the other two.

Oh Ewan! I was cringing so hard. I think he was saved by not taking the whole thing too seriously.

I was about twenty when I watched it and rememer coming out of it nauseous (sitting front row watching huge-ass ship will do that to you) and hating Kate Winslet. But I loved her in Sense & Sensibility! And now I wanted to slap her!

We are depicted as statistical outliers, modern-day counterculturalists.

To illustrate.

Ah. Thanks. Didn't know it was common.

Really? I missed that.

Agreed x100. It drives me nuts. 'But she's a mother, why doesn't she think of her children first'? As much as I think Betty's not the best of moms, I'm not going to hold this against her.