Oh, Sally. I never liked Sally as much as I liked Betty. I felt more sympathy for her, this episode. The way she was shown at the end, so sad and competent, was not what I would have expected for her character's resolution, from former seasons.
She had such a different relationship with Betty than Betty had with her mother, and lost her mother so much earlier than Betty lost hers. Watching Betty sitting at the kitchen table, stubbornly smoking, while Sally washed dishes, the two of them silent, was so evocative. Sally, like her mother and father, betrayed confidences and expectations and rules and did what she wanted (with, I can't help feeling, some self pity along the way). She's finally someone I care about, and whose future I'd like to see.
Boo for what they did to Betty, but Sally really stepped up and showed the amazing person she will grow into being (despite having really two pretty serious train wrecks as parents.)
I find nothing amazing about Sally Draper. She was just a kid who will probably grow up to be another adult with her own set of virtues and flaws. In her own way, she'll be just as messed up as her parents and everyone else on this show.
I never understood this need to put Sally on a pedestal.
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I never liked Sally as much as I liked Betty. I felt more sympathy for her, this episode. The way she was shown at the end, so sad and competent, was not what I would have expected for her character's resolution, from former seasons.
She had such a different relationship with Betty than Betty had with her mother, and lost her mother so much earlier than Betty lost hers. Watching Betty sitting at the kitchen table, stubbornly smoking, while Sally washed dishes, the two of them silent, was so evocative. Sally, like her mother and father, betrayed confidences and expectations and rules and did what she wanted (with, I can't help feeling, some self pity along the way). She's finally someone I care about, and whose future I'd like to see.
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I find nothing amazing about Sally Draper. She was just a kid who will probably grow up to be another adult with her own set of virtues and flaws. In her own way, she'll be just as messed up as her parents and everyone else on this show.
I never understood this need to put Sally on a pedestal.
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