According to the Hollywood Reporter the makeup artists on the show did the same thing for Jones that they did for castmate Elizabeth Moss when her character Peggy Olsen was pregnant during season one.
The crack team covered Jones in a fat suit and prosthetic facial and neck appliances that gave Betty a surprisingly zaftig look. Its "Betty" tweets things like, "Good morning, does anyone know if Doritos makes a breakfast cereal?
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Here, a guide to the "Fat Betty" controversy: What exactly happened in this episode? The daily gossip: November 11, Daily gossip. Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell swap late-night shows, promote each other's movie. Switching Jimmys. Houston Police chief retracts story of Astroworld guard knocked out by injection. Since the episode, two Fat Betty Francis -themed Twitter accounts that have popped up, as well as a meme that includes lines like "I got 99 problems, but one fat ex-wife.
Betty has been an unlikeable and unsympathetic character for a while now, but when audiences conflate a distaste for her personality with a distaste for her larger body, it says more about them than it does about her.
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Terms Privacy Policy. Can't stand her and now that she is fat, she serves no purpose — RuckusBuff RuckusBuff April 2, Such good friends that both the mistress and the doctor husband celebrated New Year's Eve with Don and Megan.
But he's not the old Don—not entirely, anyway. He expresses guilt for his transgressions, something he never did when he cheated on Betty.
When his mistress asks what his New Year's resolution is, he responds, "I want to stop doing this. This guilt-wracked Don is different from first-season Don, who was so in denial about the fact that he already had a wife, he tells his mistress, "We should get married.
He never got there with Betty. So, progress? Otherwise, Don seems in even worse shape than he was in the pre-Megan era. The season opens with the two of them on a trip to Hawaii, and as the episode follows them from the beach to the bedroom to the dinner table, Megan does all the talking and Don is silent.
The first words we hear him speak other than a voiceover of him reading Dante's Inferno at the very beginning is at the hotel bar, where he's gone to escape in the middle of the night. It's not quite clear why Don's shutting Megan out.
Maybe it's guilt over the affair, or perhaps he's jealous of her professional quasi-success. She has a minor but growing role on a soap opera, and one day she unexpectedly gets called in to work, leaving Don to his own devices. He gets so drunk he throws up at Roger's mother's funeral, in front of an aghast and entirely sober group of mourners.
The most dramatic sign of his unhappiness is the ad campaign he pitches to the Hawaiian resort: the image of a man who's leapt out of his clothes, with the tagline "Hawaii—the jumping-off point. The baffled client stammers, "I think, and I think people might think, that he died.
Are we viewers supposed to think Don is headed for a similar fate? It seems too obvious, and yet Ashley, what did you think of Don's lapse back into cheating and darkness? And what about the other parts of the episode? Fetters: Yep, Don's cheating on Megan. I wish I were surprised. Andy Greenwald at Grantland wrote a terrific piece this week asserting that what makes Mad Men great is its sense of dread, of tragic inevitability.
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