26 minutes before the Season Finale, I'm going to commit to this prediction.  I think Don's going to off Betty.  Possibly with a shotgun.  Then again, Don's pretty cowardly, so he might use poison.  He'll present her with the first formal meal he's ever prepared her and then: "ACK!" 

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Poison in the coffee?  That's a possibility.

I'd rather Don didn't kill Betty, but...I just saw January Jones in a movie trailer a couple of minutes ago and I got to thinking, "Maybe she's freed up a little time for a film career lately?"

Well...I'm sure Don tampered with the wiring on that plane or something.

He got rid of her baggage. All in all they are both flawed. He suffers damage from his past that probably makes him incapable of fidelity and she is a spoiled cold brat that will never knows what she wants or how to get it. She goes off with the older Henry who is so desperate he proposes to women he doesn't even know. Do we even know what happen to his first wife?  I must have missed that.

what kind of a mother would leave her children with the maid, at Christmas time no less, and fly off to reno for a`quickie divorce?

this selfish action alone shows what a self centered, immature, spoiled "not-quite-right" woman betz is!

Oh, and be honest - when Don came home drunk and confronted Betty about Henry, you all thought he was going to kill her, didn't you?

A good old-fashioned backhand was my guess, while watching it.  "Who is Henry Francis?"  *SMACK*  Before he comes to his senses and remembers she can sink his battleship at any time.

I was hoping he'd at least give her a smack in the mouth, but I don't think it's in his character.  He won't hit the kids, and the last thing he wants to become is his father (or "fathers"), so it wouldn't have fit.

Plus, a bruised hand print on Betty's face wouldn't help Don's case in divorce court, I don't think. 

I hope he clocks Henry Francis next season, though.  He said "I want you to know I'm not going to fight you on this" to Betty on the phone, but that shouldn't apply to her new sugar daddy.  Don needs to mess him up on general principle.

I believe that the Henry Francis thing will sizzle out and Don and Betty will reunite next season.

I mean, really, there's no substance behind the partnership of Betty and Henry. It's just another relationship based on chemistry. That didn't work for her and Don and it won't work with Henry.

Betty has made typical choices based on her era. Even today women still get married because they're supposed to, because "it's time" or because there are no other apparent options. That's just a recipe for disaster.

She seems to know as little about Henry as she did about Don.  As I recall, she didn't appear to know Henry had the daughter he brought to the wedding.

I was really hoping for a feminist awakening for Betty, but she seems to have doubled down on her "Daddy's little princess" thing.  I don't see how Don and Betty could get back together after the hateful things they said.  My ex and I still loathe each other after 13 years.  I just hope we can approach Roger and Mona's class with Margaret's wedding when my son gets married in two weeks.

There you go, jack. Roger Sterling can be your role model.

As far as chemistry between Betz and Henry, there isn't much there. She reacted like a mannequin (as usual) each time he kissed her. To put it as delicately as possible, she most likely beds like one, too. I think Henry will soon loose interest, and Betz will be out on the street.

well i don't know about the bedding part - she shore has some fancy underdrawers that could get a feller all steamed up...

I agree that Betty has always been a bitch.  Because she is a bitch, something will go wrong between her and Henry.  And she will see Don at a party with some hot tail and she'll be like 'what was I thinking?'...that's gonna happen next year.  Prediction.

Betty said Don wasn't good enough for her in the finale, so we know that she's trying to climb the social ladder by shacking up with Henry Francis...regardless of how many childhoods she has to ruin in the process.  Remember, this all came to a head right after Don's confession about his dirt farm past.  He's a great provider and loves his kids and everything, but Betty can't live with the idea that her husband is the illegitimate son of some backwoods prostitute.

She was willing to tolerate him diddling broads in Manhattan now and then (at least he always came home), but now that there's documentary evidence of his low birth, Betty suddenly...doesn't love him anymore.

I didn't see Betty as at all okay with Don's infidelities.  They drove her nearly insane. What I remember her saying in that scene where he grabbed her up out of bed and pushed her around was, "I was never enough for you."  And she certainly wasn't.

I don't think we saw any behavior or words from Betty to indicate class snobbery per se.  We didn't see her repulsed by the old photographs.  She was much more disturbed by the divorce paper.  That's what really bothered her.  That's what rankled.

Go ahead and call her a coldhearted zombie.  I've done it.  But not loving Don because of his humble background--I don't buy that.

I have seriously always hated Betty! Right from the beginning. I am so glad this happened. The comments about her "social climbing" are dead on, and I honestly don't feel any heat between Betty and Henry. It's just a reflection of her daddy complex. She'll get what she deserves. Don is such a catch, and so much better off without her. She was a drag. I love the way the show is headed, and he doesn't need her. He's anchored to the new rouge ad agency!

Heh, listening to this it reminds me of the Jessica Rabbit line "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way". Betty's not sympathetic because she's not written to be sympathetic. She has no moral highground when it comes to affairs and one night stands, she's a total ice queen, she's subtly racist where Don isn't and because she's portrayed as being a lousy mom. Remember Don's line about taking the kids - "God knows they'll be better off". And then there's the constant "go upstairs" and "go to bed", even when it looks like it's still daytime out!

Don is meant to be sympathetic, because that's the way the show portrays him, despite his foibles. He's the protagonist. Nothing he's done would be considered irredeemable, like killing someone. He's got issues, and him struggling with those issues is the basis of the show. That's why it's easier to forgive him. Look at the last episode, going to the people he has wronged, hat in hand and saying he's sorry.

While you wouldn't want to be Don in real life, you shouldn't idolize Betty on the show, either. If you do, the writer is not doing his/her job. You may occasionally feel sorry for her, but those occasions are usually followed by obvious attempts to paint her in a bad light.

Did you watch the same episode everyone else did?

Don: You're so hurt; SO brave, with your little white nose in the air.  All along you've been building a life raft.

Betty: Get out.

Don: ...you never forgave me.

Betty:  Forgave what?  That I've never been enough?

Don: You got everything you ever wanted - EVERYTHING!  And you loved it!  And now I'm not good enough for some spoiled, mainline brat?!

Betty: THAT'S RIGHT!


It's pretty obvious what she's doing.  She's hopping in her life raft, marked "Women and Children First."  Her comment about how she was never enough for Don is a jab at his previous infidelities (her one bit of ammunition), but she's been living with that knowledge for some time now.  However, when Henry Francis made his intentions of marriage clear, Betty dropped Don like a hot potato.  An up and coming politician who can get things done (remember how impressed she was with what he did for their local government) wants to hook up with her?  She pictures herself in a Camelot of her own, not having to do anything but look pretty, just like Jackie.  Remember how fascinated she was with the TV coverage of her tour of the White House?

Oh, and immediately following on that quote from above, watch the episode again to see how wounded Betty looks when Don says, "You won't get a nickel!"

She's visibly shaken by that line.  But she doesn't even bat an eyelash when Don then says, "And I'll take the kids.  God knows they'll be better off!"

She just says, "I'm going to Reno, and you're going to consent, and that's the end of this."

No squabbling from her.  She just wants the formalities out of the way so she can go live in what she thinks will be an ivory tower.  Has she not considered that she's going to be shacking up with a guy who not only hits on married women, but pregnant women?  This verbal agreement with Francis is hardly iron-clad.  I'll bet you that she listens to his suggestion that he take care of her and she refuses alimony from Don.  The papers will be signed and then her tentative relationship with Henry will fall apart somehow.  Or he'll suffer a massive heart-attack and die, as middle-aged men were prone to doing in those days.