Mother’s Little Helper
Francine to Betty in the beauty parlor:
Do you want a Miltown? It’s the only thing that’s keeping me from chewing my nails off.
At the close of S1, Francine was losing her shit in a pretty serious way. She was talking about killing her whole family. Anyone who knows your basic Psychosis 101 knows that talk like that is an indicator of something seriously not being right.
And so here she is, end of S2, with a solution in her purse.
Who knows what brought it on, the initial crazies? She might have been getting crispy on amphetamines, to help lose that baby weight and keep her husband. So tranquilizers are the perfect next step.
This is such a subtle line of dialogue, I almost missed it. But what a way to give us a little preview of the meatier sixties, yes?
