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Also, it was supremely weird and gross that he was choking his chicken to the Jackie or Marilyn ad. #manmenrecap
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I have a keen interest in vintage hair techniques so I was particularly thrilled in being shown a woman walking around in the complicated setting it took to do those wonderful hairstyles of days gone by as such a mundane every day thing. #manmenrecap
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Does anyone else get the impression that he genuinely LIKES America and NYC? It really raised an interesting point with him saying in the ten months he's been there that no one asked him where he went to school IE no one questions how old your money is/what class your family is. I think it's always important to point out how DIFFERENT classicism in America vs England is (especially in the 60's where they're about to have their own social revolution as well). Yes, is their class in America? Of course only people at the top think there isn't. But it's definitely not the same. #manmenrecap
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All of the characters have moments when we see their struggles, their conflicts, and I can feel for Joan, Roger, Pete and Don etc at various points, even when their actions are dubious, but I struggle feeling for Betty. I think it's because I hate the way she treats her children, especially Sally. It seems to me that Betty has never grown up and displays that typical behaviour of parents who hate that they are no longer the child. I can't STAND the way she treats Sally, it really upsets me.
Obviously Betty has been hard done by, but I think its also important to remember not to fully victimise her. Its not that simple. Betty was a young, beautiful, well-off model. She could've had ANYONE she wanted, and she chose that man. A man she really knew nothing about. As her father said 'he has no people.' She's chosen to live a life of delusion, believed what she wanted to believe, and now the shit is hitting the fan. #manmenrecap
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Oh man, now I'm starting to feel sympathetic toward her. #manmenrecap
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For the life of me I don't get how Don's character never comes into question for hiding his identity from and cheating on his wife and the mother of his three kids. How his being a prick ends up on Betty's head. #manmenrecap
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I've been re-watching the first series and there's this awful moment when Sally gets scared because the man with the birds said he'd shoot the dog. Betty and Don send her back to bed and then Betty says something like: 'She'll be fine. Did you see those big tears? I have to get a picture of her crying one day.' - WTF??? That is one of the most fucked up things I've heard on the show. #manmenrecap
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That said, I really don't want Betty's reaction to play out in the same way as Kay's. I want to see rebellion here, not suicide. I want her to show that strength that's been hinted at for a while now.
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After the phone call in the morning, where he told her he wanted to show her off, I was hoping she would take the stacks of money, take the kids, and leave. Leave the shoebox in the open drawer for Don to find. Move in to her fathers empty house, go to Italy, something. Don's not ever going to be honest with her. #manmenrecap
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That single sentence made me die inside for her.
She's just his shiny, blond trophy. And all she wants to be is something more to him.
*Tear* #manmenrecap
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They fight. He yells at her about how hysterical she is getting and turns to walk away. And she says "Don't turn away from me, Dick Whitman." Long pan on Don's horrified face. Cut scene. #manmenrecap
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"We don't need to go every week."
So Carla goes to church every week because she NEEDS to go. Oh I see, she's such a bad person being born black and all. I guess white people are inherently good and we colored folks need to pray and hope we can be good people like them.
Nice Betts #manmenrecap
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It was telling that Betty was embarassed when Sally outed them as C&E Christians. #manmenrecap
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