View all Lifestyle Sites. More Music News ». More FS Music News ». View all Music Sites. More FanSided News ». More News Around the Network ». View all Our Sites. The episode began and ended with Betty Draper and her neighbors homing pigeons taking flight, but it's the ending that most folks are talking about: Betty, in her nightgown with cigarette dangling, shooting her son's empty BB gun at the birds as their owner watches in horror, all to the tune of Bobby Helms' "Special Angel.
But back to the bird as metaphor. When Betty first sees her neighbor's homing pigeons fly out of their coop, she looks on admiringly, soaring vicariously through them out of her trapped setting as suburban housewife. Then while attending Fiorello!
You see, Betty was once a model If you ask, she'd be happy to tell you. She sees this as an opportunity to get back to her idealized pre-housewife glory days, and break through the suburban prison she's fashioned for herself. Don gives her his half-hearted support. You can tell he wants her to be happy, but he doesn't trust Hobart's intentions, and justly so.
As she's on a shoot, the Draper kids witness their dog take down one of the pigeons in a hokey CGI effect - jarring only because the rest of the series is so exact. Angels exist to look out for other people. Angels have no needs of their own. Pete feels creatively thwarted as well.
Ken Cosgrove got a short story into the Atlantic Monthly based on its merits. Pete chafes at being categorized as a glorified pimp. I thought you were doing that to get close to Paul. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Share this: Twitter Facebook.
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