1 Season
5 Episode
Mildred Pierce - Season 1 Episode 2 Part 2
Having it all would cost her everything.
Mildred brings a sample of her pies into the diner and they're a big hit with the customers. Soon she gets an order for 35 pies a week and the orders start to pile up from other restaurants as well. Veda discovers her waitress uniforms and Mildred is forced to admit what she does for a living. The selfish Veda thinks it's all so degrading. Mildred tells her she plans on opening a restaurant of her own and eventually asks Wally to develop an estimate of what it would cost to set herself up, but he has another idea for her. With a divorce from husband Bert she's able to buy and convert a house into a restaurant. On her last day at the diner, she leaves early to spend time at the beach with one of the customers, Monty Beragon. She returns home the next day to learn that her youngest daughter is seriously ill in hospital.
- Year: 2011
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: HBO
- Keyword: california, based on novel or book, depression, infidelity, kidnapping, restaurant, business woman, respect, daughter, rags to riches, friendship, love, romance, miniseries, historical, divorcee, historical drama, social history, 1920s, family life, american history, modern history
- Director: James M. Cain
- Cast: Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Brían F. O'Byrne, Melissa Leo, James Le Gros, Mare Winningham