Like I posted on another topic it's a classic case of the BAD sibling getting all the attention and handled with kid gloves by the parents while the GOOD one gets the crappy end of the stick. It causes resentments and guily feelings. A lot of families have it. My husbands included

That's funny, lorantscan, because I was thinking the same thing. Anita seems to be the older sister. Peggy is the younger sister. A lot of times, it seems like the older sibling is supposed to tow the line, while the younger one can do whatever he or she wants! That's one thing I'm getting from the Olson Family!!!

I too picked up on how proud Peggy's mother is of her work. However I can't see why she does handle her with kid gloves. I mean Peggy's already got knocked up by a married man, how much more trouble could she get in? And the sister. It seems like the sister would want Peggy to find someone acceptable.

Oh but didn't Anita get her back. The confessional scene was priceless. The look on Peggy's face after she was egged by the cute new priest...

Believe me - when a child messes up the parents pour ALLLLLL of the efforts more into that child and the one that tows the line gets pushed aside. Happens in every family. I've seen it happen to a lot of families

Better yet my husbands mother so much as told my husband that while she is proud of my husband his brother always got more attention because he was always a screw up. (Thanks for nuttin)

And my husband resents it but he loves his brother (prob more than he loves his mother)

BTW - I do not think that she told the priest that on purpose. Anyone?

Classic passive agressive-
1. At dinner when Mom Olson is boasting about Peggy's work to little Father Hanks, Anita says a tad condescendingly: "they call it copywriting, mom". The condescension isn't toward mom for not knowing; it's toward Peggy not really being that big a deal.
2. Didja notice the look on Anita's face when little Father Hanks offered Peggy a ride home? Like she was being dumped for the cuter girl. It was priceless.
3. What she did in confession was bad to the bone...

However, loved the foreshadowing in car ride when he drove Peggy to the station. When asking for help with the sermon, Peggy responds with something like: "...make it simple. So we have understanding."

I am pretty partial to Peggy. The sister is looking for some type of acknowledgement for what she does. It is some jealousy there on the older sister's part. She is looking for praise from her mother which she is not getting. As stated by lorantscan, this is pretty standard in families. They are a typical disfunctional family. I think most families were during that time. It is hard to try to keep up a certain image. Then the doors close......

Did you notice that in the confessional, the sister NEVER said "and here I am, raising her child." She kvetched about Peggy being favored by the mother and the fact that she had a child "out of wedlock." She also pissed and moaned about how good SHE has been .... but the sister never once said she was raising the child or caring for him. You would think that would be the first thing she'd point out.

The camera keeps panning to the little boy every once in awhile, but I think the jury is still out as to where the baby is and whether or not that little blonde boy is Peggy's.

The priest handled Peggy's sister beautifully when he said "your sister is not as strong as you are" and cut her off with the Act of Contrition.

While Anita may have felt obliged to confess her hostile feelings toward Peggy, she did not have to elaborate in the confessional about exactly why she was so angry. That was intentional and more than a little evil.

Amen

I loved that the writers are showing there is as much competitiveness at home (in this case with the older sister) as in the boardroom. I think sis decided to tell as soon as the copy of the sermon landed in her hands. She probably was a tattle tale her who life. It does often happen that a parent will pick one child who can do no wrong. I have heard that they pick the child who most resembles their spouse. If the mother and the older sister appear similar in tastes then it might be that Peggy is like her dad. It also, I have heard, shows a self hatred by the parent who expects more from the child that reminds them of themselves. Just armchair psychology on my part, added with some personal observation.

What I think is fascinating is how we label Peggy's sister as the good one and Peggy as the bad one. I have a younger sibling and will we too fell into similar roles, however there was little difference in our behavior. By his "mistakes" being upfront and center, I was able to purposely hidden mine in the background and yet still cling to being the "good" one. At the end of the day I was just as bad, if not worse than he. The only difference is that no one knew. I think that is exactly what Peggy's sister is doing. Her stunt in the confessional supports this.

We can contrast that with how differently Betty treats her 2 kids.

dd, I noticed that, too. I wonder if either parent (Peggy's mom and Betty) know they are choosing favorite's.

No, I think it's subconscious. And what a cutie Bobby is! The scene with him and Don was wonderful.

In my estimation, the sister knew exactly what she was doing in the confessional, and of course she knew that the priest knew who she was because of the lattice work and also because of the dinners at the house. (I understand her dilemma, but it was a really rotten thing to do.) Also, I noticed that the priest did not say, "Apprarently (or possibly) your sister is not as strong as you.", but actually said that she was not as strong, indicating that he knew who she was. I don't think this would have happened if the priest had not interacted with Peggy on the sermon and then provided a copy for her. It seemed to provoke a kind of jealousy in the sister, don't you think?

Anita is vicious and petty. Her "confession" was purposeful. But like many of the characters we've been watching, Peggy included, Anita is clueless and in denial about her own life. Unlike Peggy, she has chosen the traditional life of wife and mother. But look at her home life, the sadness, loneliness and unfulfillment of which is evidenced by the 3 shots of her detached husband lying on the couch (when Father Gill first arrives, when everyone has their picture taken and he's in the background, and when Father Gill comes over on Palm Sunday - asleep on the couch with no mention made of it).

So, when she's "snubbed" by the priest (when he leaves her lunch/dinner early to take Peggy to the station or when she realizes he sought Peggy's advice on the sermon), it's almost the last straw.

What cracks me up is why they all fawn over and compete for the cute priest?? I am Episcopalian and I remember a lot of women swooning over our priest. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Peggy's mom has her favorite, pretty Peggy and yet Anita may be raising the love child. It's rather galling to Anita, I'm sure. I feel she did that confessional thing on purpose so the cute priest wouldn't think Peggy was such an angel.

A bit of trivia: there is a secretary-type hutch piece in Anita's living room. I spotted it in the second scene at Anita's. I have one exactly like it! It belonged to my mother. I love the props on this show.

I think Anita is vicious. Even her confession is tainted by her jealousy. She doesn't just tell the priest that Peggy had a child out of wedlock. She states that Peggy SEDUCED a married man. Now I watched all of Season 1 and I don't recall Peggy being particularly seductive toward Pete.

Anita is jealous and resentful and therefore highly dangerous to Peggy. Her calculated "confession" was meant to expose Peggy's secret and demean Peggy in the priest's eyes. Maybe she sensed an attaction between the priest and Peggy (priests are men, after all, and not all of them like little boys!) and she wanted the priest to know Peggy is a slut. Anita exaggerated or fabricated the part about "she seduced a married man" because Pete was not married when Peggy first slept with him, and the second time, he almost assaulted her in the office (though she did not resist). I doubt Peggy would tell her sister the details of either encounter. Little does Anita know but the revelation may draw the priest closer to Peggy. The priest is definitely attracted to Peggy. Too bad he took that vow of celibacy. Episodes to follow may develop the sexual tension between these two. Very shocking! Next Anita will be accusing her of seducing a priest.

Anita's very bitter. Notice how her husband is always lying on the couch asleep. Anita sees the tall, attractive young priest as a bit of safe male attention and excitement. In those days, priests were almost worshipped. It's that adoration and near worship, an unquerstioning trust, which made the molestations possible, which we hear of today. If the stories are true, many children were molested by priests even back then - and were not believed or their parents hushed it up.

Do you think Anita would get so angry and jealous that she would expose Peggy's sin to her employers or co-workers, in an attempt to ruin her professionally? Peggy should have just given that kid up for adoption, rather than let her relatives take it. Then they could rub her nose in it forever. But if she had done that, there would be no story line!

Anita doesn't know she has a self while Peggy is just being herself. Maybe she got permission - maybe her quiet way helped her get her mother's approval, so now she doesn't seem to need it from anybody. Maybe her mother is gentle owing to what went on around the birth (post partum? shock?) Smart that the priest noticed and acknowledged Peggy first, (asking for advice) even if it did fry Anita right into the confessional. I did work across the hall from a woman who didn't "get" that she was pregnant till she was over 6 mos., though I noticed it (intuition) - she told me later that I had asked her months before if she was pregnant, and she had been! Yes the ladies loved the priests and every Catholic mother wanted at least one son to be a priest. We had a family priest (really smarmy guy, a fund-raising priest!) and a fabulous uncle priest. And taht's such old Catholicism - Latin mass, fasting before communion -

I can't imagine sitting through a long ceremony or ritual conducted in a foreign language that I didn' t understand. What's the point? Is it supposed to be a secret magical incantation, which benefits the hearer even if he doesn't understand a word? No wonder Peggy, who seems to think for herself, has a problem with it. She wanted the young priest to make it understandable to the laymen. In contract to the stilted sermonizing by the monsignor. I have a catholic neighbor who goes to a church where they perform the mass in latin, like the old days. I guess it's all what you get used to.

Do you think the priest might reach out to Peggy to bring her back into the church fold, but end up being tempted to touch her and break his vow? It's certainly not unheard of. I think the casting of tom hanks' son was good. he plays a good priest.
He is not judgmental of Peggy, but understands that her weakness drew her into sin.

The older sister dooes alot for the family and doesn't get credit for it. Peggy's mothers nickname for Peggy is "Peaches" did you catch that when she said good bye to her and then handed the phone to Anita? What's with Anita's husband lying around? I know he said he had a bad back, but wouldn't he be better off in bed? Okay so there is something odd about the priest. Not saying the Catholic prayer at dinner right away. The interest in Peggy. His ears perked up when Anita confessd that Peggy had a child out of wedlock. I happened to think that the priest looks quite a bit like Pete! Pregnant by a married man. Well, Pete did get married the next day after he showed up at her apartment in the first season. Oh boy, the look on Peggy's face when the father handed her the egg "For the little one" Priceless!

I don't think the blonde toddler that is shown is Peggy's child. Any thoughts?

Did the actress playing Peggy go through a real weight gain during the "pregnancy?"

I am rather surprised Peggy gave up as much information as she has about the baby. Apparently, her state of denial weakened enough to reveal the baby's father was a married man.

Ah, youth....she has not yet learned how to keep a secret...tell no one....

Peggy's sister could use the Relax -a -cisor.

I'm pretty sure Peggy had a fat suit on and some latex mask like jowls applied.I commented on the open thread about the prayer at the table. It was weird that young hanks didn't offer the obligatory , "Bless us o Lord ". I married into a Catholic family, and have yet to be at a family dinner where that prayer doesn't finish any previous prayers. It has always felt so rote to me, like a lot of the Catholic mass. In our area there is a movement to go back to the Latin, or High Mass. Don't get it. Peg's sis mentioned taking something that was not hers. She followed that up about something about coins on a washer, but I wonder if she was really talking about Peg's kid. She's very resentful that she is not getting credit for this sacrifice. She wants Father Finn to know her struggle. Loved the way he handled , though.

c'mon, Anita saying she took some coins off of the machine in the "laundrymat"? She has three kids and a husband, I'm pretty sure she's got her own washing machine! I think she was referring to Peggy:s child as the thing she took that didn't belong to her... She probably did it to curry favor and recognition from her mother, and it didn't turn out the way she expected (Peggy is still the favorite child.) So yeah, she's jealous, and a little resentful, she keeps saying to Father Hanks that everyone acts like nothing ever happened... and yes. my child had white-blond hair til he was seven, I'm brunette and his dad is a redhead.

When they first introduced Peggy's family this season, I was under the impression that her mother didn't favor her. So I'm surprised now, that she's the favorite of her mother who is bragging about her "important" job. Huh?

Something weird about the priest, Anita, and the whole shebang about the baby's paternity and who Peggy really slept with.......how does Anita know Peggy was the seducer? Where does she get that information? Prior behavior on Peggy's part?

I will say I was always surprised that Peggy let Pete in the door after her first day at Sterling Cooper. Huh? She just met Pete that day, and she's screwing him that nite? Who does that? A virgin?

I think Peggy & her family, like all characters on this fabulous show -- and like all of us in general -- are good and bad. And vicious. And naive. And innocent. And guilty. And everything in between.
And that's what makes us relate to them (at least all of us some of the time) .... and love them.

The standard network shows have been giving us one-dimensional characters for years, and I've hated them all. I would take any Mad Men elevator operator or waitress over any star on Grey's Anatomy (sorry GA fans!). The writing, casting & acting are just that good (to me, & I suspect to many of you).

But back to Peggy's family. Along the lines of "hate the sin, love the sinner", Anita does care for Peggy, despite her passive-agressive confessions & comments about Peggy getting away with murder. It's just the sibling thing that others have mentioned already. I DO think the funny-looking blond kid is Peggy's/Pete's. I love that we're getting to see Anita's husband (how old would Archie Bunker have been in 1962?), & a glimpse of the non-wealthy.

Oh, and someone mentioned Father Hanks' saying (or not saying) Grace -- love it! No wonder he needs Peggy's help!

LOVE the comment about Anita needing the Relax-a-Cizor!!

The Olsen family dynamic is classic Prodigal Son material. The father doesn't seem to appreciate the son that never strayed and kills the fatted calf for the son redeemed. Just like as humans we relate to the good son, I think we also can relate to Anita. Don't get me wrong, the confession was deliberate, premeditated and evil but if we take it on face value that the little blond is Peggy's, she is sacrificing a lot for her sister with little or no recognition. Methinks Peggy was always the favored one which in no way excuses Anita but certainly makes it understandable.

Who is the other older women in the Olsen scenes? There seemed to be four women two of whom were 'nana' age.

Maybe I am stretching it, but does it seems like a violation of the confessional confidentiality that the priest gave Peggy the egg "for the little one"? Other than from Anita's stupid remarks, he would have had no way to connect Peggy and the toddler.

GA Coast, I agree about the confessional confidentiality (although I understand very little about the Church in general). I'm assuming, though, that there might've been some public conversations between the Olsen family & Father Hanks during the egg hunt, before we actually see Peggy sitting there ..... so who knows how Anita may have introduced the young 'uns to the Father?

I wonder how many people had a relax a ciser in their houses? (We did)

Ok ..If I am Peggy's sister.I have done what was expected of me in the late 50's.I am pious..married..a mother..devout parishioner.I support my deadbeat husband.I host my mom and random friends at my dinner table.Oh yeah I am also raising my sisters illegitimate son.I don't ask for nor expect that said sister will contribute to the upbringing of the "little one"We all keep the charade so that lil sis can continue on in her career without a taint.I attempt to validate myself through the church..cooking..attending service and confessing.The new young Priest who comes to my home for dinner sees my hussy sister as a sweet naivete sister.That pisses me off.Does that make me wicked?

I'm with you Mad_maniac - you're not wicked. As I mentioned, its similar to the Prodigal Son story and I think most people identify with the good son. Anita is the good daughter and I think she may blow up at some point and not without good reason.

Great comments. Jamm, you are so right - 1st season, Peggy meet Pete and that evening lets him drop over and come in (in more ways than one!) Now that I think of it, I doubt a virgin in 1960 would have done that! Do you recall that local guy she went to dinner with 1st season, and walked out on? Wasn't he very blond, as is the "little one"? (I do think that little towhead they keep showing is her son; he looks a bit less than 2 yrs old).
Also, prodigal son comparison is right on, to a point. However, the older son missed the father's point - he said "Everything I have is yours already" - the "good" son already had the benefits of a continuous good relationship with the father, as well as being the heir of everything the father owned. Tthe younger son (prodigal) only got a pittance when he left home, and would not be getting anything else when the father died. He'd be his brother's servant, in effect.

Peggy is not really the prodigal yet, as she has never repented and has not come back home seeking forgiveness. She has not yet "come to the end of herself" as did the prodigal, which prompted him to go home and be willing to be a slave rather than a son, to make it up to his father.

Just as the older son resented his father's continued love for the brother who strayed, Anita resents her mother's love for Peggy. The mother wants Peggy to repent and be redeemed.

Peggy may feel that she's too far gone to repent and be forgiven. Maybe she does do whatever she likes without thought of consequences (as Anita said) because she figures she's already damned, what does one more mortal sin matter?

The priest is definitely questioning his commitment and possibly his whole vocation, and may thus be toying with the idea of what it would be like to act on his normal attraction to a woman and desire to be in relationship with one (not just sex, but the sexual attraction can spark that kind of thing). But Peggy needs to be wary, because the priest is "married" to the Church, and like other married men, he can be going through a period of asking himself, "Is this all my whole life will be? Is there something/someone else out there who would change my life?" In a married man, that often results in an affair, or at least thinking about one.

And most married men who have affairs don't end up leaving their wives - so too, a priest who's wondering "Is this all there is?" will not usually leave the priesthood.

And who gets hurt? The single woman who gets involved with a married man and hopes she will one day be his wife. That's the way of the world.

I agree about the damned, part. When you feel you committed terrible wrongs that cannot be righted or erased, and you are damned (especially according to your religion and society), what's a little more sinning going to do to you? You are damned.

If you grew up in a religious household and that has always been your belief system, you're not really going to change those beliefs just because you've crossed the line of no return. So Peggy probably does feel she's a hopeless case for redemption.

"So Peggy probably does feel she's a hopeless case for redemption." with all due respect Jamm I think thats putting Peggy in the victim role again.She has made a choice.And I believe the show is leading us to believe she has been afforded the ability to walk away from her son due to her sisters sacrifice.But that will be revealed in time.Its like when as someone mentioned Donald saw his little brother at the train station and just kept going,spending years forgetting about his past to the point that he really started believing his own lies.Was he a hopeless case for redemption? No he had the chance to redeem himself when his brother appeared back in his life..given the choice between "redemption" and self preservation he chose to protect and nurture the illusion he created.A true MAD Man to the core.Peggy in essence is the same only in the infantile stages of creating her new self.

Even someone who fails morally by their own choice has become a victim of their own foolishness or weakness, whether they admit it or not. All the characters (and by dramatic extension, all humanity) are thus victims of themselves. You know the saying, "He is his own worst enemy".....there's a lot of truth there.

Feeling that one is beyond redemption is a form of self-aggrandizement (narcissism, infantilism, which are self-absorbed), in effect saying that one is greater in his capacity to sin than the Deity is in capacity to forgive; thus denying that the Deity has an infinite capacity to forgive.

On the scale of sins, it's a bigger one than most would think. Forgiveness, repentance and redemption are some of the grand dramatic themes of this series. Remember Don's freefall in the opening graphics of each episode? Symbolizes falling into the abyss - toward hell, damnation.

Woah that was deep Bocaraton!

Interesting comments, Mad_Maniac, bocaraton. I said that about Peggy because I was assuming she had enough self-awareness (the Pete experience), but didn't seem to be altering her behavior to learn, and move ahead.

Peggy's current behavior (denial) makes me think she is not going to change in a way that will make amends regarding the outcome of a choice made and the consequence (i.e. Pete, her son) which lends a hopelessness to her situation because of her denial of its existence.

I don't think Peggy views herself as a victim at all in that sense. If she did, there would be acknowledgement of the son and guilt over the past (sex with a married man, unwanted birth of her son, denial of his relation to her, not accepting responsibility for his care, etc.).

Is Peggy a victim of her poor choices? Yes. Is she a victim? No. To be a victim, in my mind, means you are powerless. Peggy isn't powerless, she has the power of choice. She's exercising power over her life, now, by denying what happened to her in the past, and the outcome, her son. With the power of choice comes the burden of accepting the responsibility and consequences of those choices.

You're right Mad_Maniac, Peggy's life and actions parallel Don Draper's in many ways. Neither character regards themself as a victim, though as bocaraton points out, they are victims of their choices. But again, they also both have the power over how they want to regard those choices. Without acknowledgement of those choices, there's not alot of hope for overcoming or releasing themselves from the past.

Exactly. You can exercise choice and free will, and you can still be a victim of yourself. Peggy is now enmeshed in bonds of her own creation.

Actually, I like Peggy and can't stand her sister.

It'll be interesting to find out where Peggy's father is. Doesn't seem like his presence has been a part of the household for a while. Does there seem to be about a 10 year age difference between Peggy and her sister, Anita? Anita seemed much older.

So hard to imagine what Peggy is thinking - her world has been that very provincial pre-Vatican II Catholicism - by today's terms a straight-jacket (or girdle?) - no matter what goes on in her life she doesn't betray her thoughts. And she doesn't seem to allow any of it to get to her -

chesterton, that's what's so interesting about Peggy. She has a maturity in being able to filter experiences and not let them defeat her, that I find surprising for a 20-22 year old.

Jeesh, I didn't "grow up" until all my parents were dead, and still don't have that kind of maturity or self-control to be immune to things that affect me. She is fascinating, and I don't really "get" Peggy alot of times.

Anita is married with kids and living with with her mother, in the family house? The schlub on the couch is her husband. Am I right about this? She and her mother are raising Peggy's child, but to the rest of society the family represents Peggy's child as Anita's. The represent that Anita actually was pregnant with him and he is part of her group of children- since its appropriate since she is married. If this is the case, I can see why Anita has a little bit of a tude about her younger sister, but I think she goes about expressing this in the wrong way.

I don't think there is any sexual tension between the priest and Peggy. I think she was impressed by his open attitude and friendliness in the vestibule when she was going to leave mass on Passion Sunday.

He is a young priest, seems very devoted to his vocation and not all priests were child molesters anymore than all rabbis or Episcolian priests were.

I think the Olson women are starved for a little male company - look at the husband of Anita, always on the couch sleeping - and that's perfectly natural. Who is safer to flirt with than a priest? Mostly, I think they were just being gracious to the visiting priest in their parish and probably wanted to hear about his time in Rome. Most working class people didn't get the chance to travel in those days and any good Catholic would have given their a lot to get to visit Vatican City.

Peggy's mother probably hopes the priest will get Peggy to come back to the church. Apparently, she had been away for a long time - remember episode 1 of this season?

For the poster who made the demeaning comment about the Latin mass, I just want to say you might want to try a little more tolerance. Jewish prayers are said in Hebrew, but I don't think they consider their rituals pointless at all - they've been doing them for about 5000 years. The Latin mass was a beautiful thing and every Catholic knew what it was about - most of us knew some Latin, and we had missals which had Latin on one side and English on the other side, so we could follow along. The music that was sung in the pre-Vatican II masses was superb - masses written by Bach, Mozart, all the great masters. It may not have been as unpredictable as the holyrollers and the sects that use snakehandlers to prove their faith, but it was richly rewarding ritual for tens of millions of people around the globe.

Chopin: Well said! I remember we spent 2nd grade preparing to make our First Holy Communion and we had to learn the mass in Latin, be able to recite and understand all the prayers and responses (Kyrie Elaison....Agnus Dei.... etc). Thanks Chopin for your comments.

Chopin, I made the comment questioning the efficacy of the latin mass for non-latin speakers. I happen to understand the latin, and have sung the mass in latin. I agree, it's beautiful. I'd love to be fluent in latin. But virtually nobody is anymore; it's a dead language for hundreds of years. But the key to understanding any message is cognitively understanding the language in which it's spoken. Thus, if someone does not understand it, they are not really getting the complete message.

That's what Peggy was telling the priest - say it in English, keep it conversational, so we have a chance of understanding. Peggy's generation was tired of being "told about" what to believe, of hearing religious teachings second hand because they had to be translated and interpreted by an elite specialist, a priest. Good for you if you understand the latin mass, but please admit that millions of people for hundreds of years had absolutely no idea what was being said to them in church. In the early centuries it made sense to use latin, because it was a universal language of the empire (as was greek in the eastern empire) - so it made sense to conduct services in those languages - everybody could understand!

Also, it's disingenuous to compare the high latin mass with the "holy rollers" and "snake handlers" whose religious movements have never been mainstream. The catholic church has had more than its share of mystics and mystical practices.

Tolerate means to "put up with (rather than attempt to destroy, suppress of stamp out by force) even if you strongly disapprove or disagree". Whoever wants to listen to a ritual performed in latin can do so, as far as I'm concerned. I'm with Peggy, though - it's not for me.

Hi all - I think the signficance of Father saying the "new grace" was to show the changing of the guard due to Vatican II - didn't they also mention he played the guitar (hippie/peace corps age is coming)? Peggy's Mom asking if he was going to say the real grace now reflects the resistance to the changes of Vatican II.

Meech - somehow I don't see Anita making up the story about taking coins from the laundromat, as a metaphor for "taking" Peggy's baby. First of all, lying in Confession has to be some kind of double-whammy sin. Not to mention Anita is not that imaginative.

In the '60s plenty of married people with houses used laundromats. Washer-dryers were a luxury reserved for people like Betty Draper.

(Speaking of which: If Anita ever gets a washer-dryer, maybe Betty could come over and show her how to use it!)
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It seems everyone is slamming Anita for the confessional scene. It was classic jealousy though. I don't think anger is the sin. I too think it really bothers her that Peggy is out living her life and she is stuck raising her kid. I was wondering what they are telling all of their fellow parishoners. Don't you think people would wonder where this kid suddenly came from that they keep dragging to mass? Parish communities were pretty tight back then.
I actually loved the scenes where they were all fawing over the new young priest. What a crack up. There are always the families that want to get in good with the priest. It's quite comical really. I have never understood that. Even when I was a practicing Catholic the thought of having our priest over for dinner freaked me out. I was always afraid that I could not stand being on such good behavior even for the duration of a dinner. I guess Catholic school messed me up.But the cute new young priests always got a lot of attention. I actually think the women liked fawning over someone that they really couldn't have and that their husbands wouldn't raise an eyebrow about. It was almost like their version of a cute gay guy friend, except that they probably were never talking about sex...or maybe they were! (I remember hearing my mother talking to her friends about some place where nuns took care of babies born out of wedlock to, you guessed it...Priests. That was after the book/movie The Thornbirds became so popular. It was about a scandalist love affair between a priest and a attractive young woman.) You have to admit that Father Gill appears to be attracted to Peggy.
I'm waiting for him to make the moves on her only to be caught by Anita, and then Anita blaming Peggy for another "seduction". I can hear her now,"It's not enough for you to seduce a married man and have a child out of wedlock and now you're seducing the Priest!" Who's seducing who anyway?????