Meprobamate

And when they get home, she faints in the driveway.

And Lulu is then diagnosed with hysteria and put on a medication known as Miltown.

And this medication is supposed to make her, and I quote, "...feel like the husband or the wife her husband was missing." Mm-hmm.

So again, I'm just like, okay, all right.

So in that same interview I talked about earlier in the episode, the interview asks Megan, why she decided to set the story in 1950s suburbia, and if she had seen any parallels from that time period to our current one.

And Megan said, the post-war era felt like the right backdrop for Lulu's story.

It was a time when the first mild tranquilizer, Miltown, hit the market and when treatments like lobotomy and electroshock therapy were still alarmingly common.

But beyond the medicine, there was that shimmering 1950s ideal of the perfectly pressed housewife, the manicured lawn, the illusion of control.

And you know what a Dexamil is? It's an amphetamine pill.

And it's half Dexedrine and it's half Miltown.

And Miltown's a tranquilizer.

So two in one.

And Danny gave me one of those on the train.

The drugs would have.

What drugs? Man, Miltown, Soma.

There was four different things.

But she, some muscle relaxant, some other stuff.

Suelen ser estimulantes para el TDAH, como el Ritalín o el Rubifen o Adderrall, ¿mm? ¿No veis? Y antidepresivos y ansiolíticos también.

También como Valium, Prozac, Miltown, ¿mm? Dulces o suplementos de uso doméstico.

Esto ya no, vitaminas y, y caramelos de placebo.

Eso yo no creo.