Episode 6 - Babylon

The episode starts by showing us how great Don is at being deceptive as he has set up a breakfast tray for Betty and is playing the best husband of the year. He slips and shatters everything as he climbs the stairs which leads us to a flashback of Don's childhood and the life he ran away from showing his step mom giving birth to Adam. They have a good day regardless and the Drapers end up amorous in bed. Teasing each other and trading jokes. At some point he tells Betty they should study advanced reproduction and jokes that he flunked it and Betty quips back "that's because you cheated" and for a second I hear an audience gasp in my head and a flicker pass through Don's face and passes just as quickly as it lingered. Betty still grasping at her relationship lets Don know she thinks about making love to him all the time.

We are introduced to the affair between Joan and Roger as she meets him at a hotel which is funny after a run in with his wife and daughter at the office. More events at the office, the ladies are asked to do a focus group testing on lipsticks and while the ladies are ooohing and aahing at the different shades, Peggy sits aside and observes looking as she has all season so far - like an outsider. At the end of the focus, she hands over the basket of tests to Freddy joking "here's your basket of kisses". Fred is taken by this and asks Peggy more questions about why she was just observing instead of participating. He is so taken he makes a request to Don to approve her being a copywriter. I couldn't tell if Joan was jealous or not. But with Joan, you can never tell.

Don being nice to Betty is ironic considering he has a tryst with both his mistresses - Midge and Rachel. Rachel is trying to not fall for him but seems to have lost this battle as she tells her sister she has met someone. Although, I have watched this series before, this episode really opened my eyes to how terrible a person Don is. I mean it was Mother's Day and Betty was having a moment with her emotions seeing as her mom had passed and at some point Don is like "mourning is just extended self pity" Sheesh.