September 2010
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4.10: Hide and Seek
In an episode full of revelations, the main secret driving the the show’s central character gets kept under wraps - for everyone besides Faye, a new member of the Draper/Whitman inner circle. But let’s review everything we learned about the rest of the characters: Lane is involved with a “negro”! Joan is preggers with Roger’s baby! Joan gets a secret abortion! Roger...
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4.9: Girls, Girls, Girls
While I didn’t love this episode, the young versus old, male versus female conflicts we’ve been observing all season come into full focus. And as Walton mentioned, the season-long “the education of Peggy Olson” continues…
I was especially struck by what Walton observed in his “wounded knee” post regarding the gradual disappearance of people like Bert and...
4.4-4.8: The Wounded Knee Episodes
I haven’t been writing for a few weeks while nursing my right knee after an injury and surgery. But I’ve been following Mad Men closely, thinking about what the show’s writers and actors are trying to illustrate.
Mad Men is now in the process of describing the set of cultural changes that revolutionized American life.
1) downtown hipster culture versus midtown, WASP male...
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4.8: Power of the Poontang
It’s quite a predicament for women at SCDP - and women in the workplace everywhere, isn’t it? You’re either just a sexy secretary or you’re an overzealous climber bitch. (Monica vs. Hillary, anyone?) As Joey the freelance art director becomes more and more misogynistic toward Joan, (because apparently his mother was the same way), Peggy steps into to save the day and show...
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4.7: On toughness
“So, Bert has no testicles?”
Friends, it is with a heavy heart I write this post knowing we’re now more than halfway through the season. These episodes keep building on each other so well; I expect we’ll be watching episodes 11 and 12 with our mouths agape.
Episode 7, aptly titled “Suitcase,” returns our main characters to the suitcase motif from the end of...
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4.7: 5 things that are not fight-related
1. I loved the interaction between Don and Peggy. Don saved Peggy and Peggy is saving Don (again). But I wonder if Don ever would have opened up to Peggy in the first place if he hadn’t saved her to begin with. He knows he can trust her, but would that be the case if she never got pregnant?
2. Roger said that he didn’t like hanging out with the AA guys because they start out telling...