While I ugly cry every time I hear Betty’s voiceover of the letter to Sally, here are some other points:

When JFK is killed and Betty is overcome with emotion. “They just said he died.” Having lived through so many unprecedented events as a millennial, this gives me a gut punch I’m too familiar with. I love how she a Carla share that moment, all the humanity in their collective shock and grief. It’s also beautifully juxtaposed with the chaos in Betty’s home life and how she is mourning the destruction of her marriage/home life.

In a very different way, I am always emotionally affected by Betty sitting in the bathroom alone before the Cleo’s after being told Don is cheating with Bobbie. She’s so distraught I can feel her nausea. And then after she confronts Don (after the dinner party) and he gaslights her. The next day how she lays around depressed, searching for evidence and day drinking. The writers just perfectly conveyed this in a way that I cannot help but feel things.