This most recent episode, the focus was on the relationships between parents and their children, and grandchildren. With Betty about to pop, I was surprised that she didn't go into labour by the end, but instead, Don was in the spare room putting away Grampa Gene's bed and bringing out a crib. The old die, the young replace them, life continues.
I was surprised, not that Gene died, but the way Betty was told. A cop showed up and told her he was gone, collapsed at a store, while she was on her front step. Even if she wasn't 9 months pregnant, isn't that the sort of thing you should get a person to sit down to hear?
The saddest part, to me, was the lack of communication. Poor little Sally is crying over her grampa's death and she hears her parents and her uncle laughing. She's appalled; how could they laugh? And do they explain to the hurting little girl that they were laughing because they were remembering? That it helps the pain? No, they send her to watch television. How many households still treat their children so?
On the lighter side, Peggy's getting an apartment and moving to Manhattan. After her ad was mocked by her co-workers, Joan appeared for a very brief, but utterly perfect conversation with her younger friend. She tells her what a good ad for a roommate is! Ironic that Joan is better at advertising than Peggy is. I would definitely have wanted to live with her!
And so Peggy has a roommate. And who do you think it is? Why Carla Gallo who you may know as Daisy on Bones. That's the second Bones cross over with Ryan Cartwright (the delightful Vincent Nigel-Murray) portraying John Hooker. *Star Count -2*
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