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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
My question related to Betty's motivation to arrange a lunch with Sarah Beth and Arthur and then not to show up. My three hypotheses were (1) Betty wanted to make Sarah Beth feel attractive and was trying to do something nice; (2) Betty wanted to see if she could use a man's attraction to her to manipulate him, but she had no interest beyond seeing if she could yank Arthur's chain; or (3) she was in such pain over Don that she wanted to make Sarah Beth feel miserable by inducing her to succumb to tempation with Arthur so that she wouldn't be the only one with a broken home.
That was an open question until the last episode. SPOILER ALERT. What we learned in the Mountain King episode was that it was 3, with a bit of scientific curiosity about Why People Cheat. I interpret her phone call with Sarah Beth to mean she wanted to find out whether people cheat on nice spouses that they love, and the answer she got was yes. And that cheaters suffer too, which is what she needs to know to forgive Don -- at the expense of her own innocence.
ETA that the story arc is The Great Gatsby reset in Midcentury Modern and with Peggy playing the Sam Waterston character. Which is nice because it's never been well adapted for the screen, but bad because it means Don Will Have To Die.
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4- Betty needed to remove the temptation, because she knew she was about to blow up her marriage.
I know these people. I went to school in boston.
