Well not just that, but Jane was Don’s secretary. I mean if anyone would know…
Jane drunk was definitely a mess, as was her hauty attitude to Joan in the office (send someone to flag the driver? Really?). But it does seem that Roger is in love with her and kind of peeved (as mentioned above) that everyone kind of sees it as some old man fling.
I liked the revelation that Joan is the breadwinner because of residents’ crappy pay. 
No wonder he “allow’s her” to keep working; he doesn’t have a choice. Didn’t one of the wives comment, to Joan, “You must be doing pretty good” in reference to apartment and her job? Still Greg is pretty cute; we need a scene where Joan either ties him up or lock’s him out the apartment naked. The Code Pink thing was creepy; especially how the women just laughed it off.
I though Betty was just upset to be reminded of the seperation, not that Jane knew about it per se. She knows full well that other people know about it, but they’re polite enough to never mention it in conversation with her.
Plus I don’t think Jane is all together. It looks as if they’re setting her up for an eating disorder and/or alcoholism. Did anyone else notice that Lane wasn’t present at the garden party? He must not have been invited in the first place because he sure as hell isn’t going to turn down an invitation because of the Roger/Jane thing (like many of Roger’s friends apparently did).
I felt sorry for her. She’s seems very professional, but she’s also older than any other woman we’ve seen working at Sterling-Cooper. She’s sees herself as a surrogate mother figure to Peggy (she’s old enough to be her mother), but Peggy sure as hell doesn’t want that. I don’t think “When you’re working, I’m working” was the real reason she stayed. Her maternal instincts compelled her to try and chaperone Peggy so she wouldn’t be alone the boys all weekend. Her sitting alone at her desk the whole time doing busy work was quite sad. Is thing going to be a new thing; Peggy going through a different secretary every week (ala Murphy Brown)?
On the New York Times website, there’s a blog posting about the episode, and speculation that the wedding party guest might have been Conrad Hilton, although that seems to be based entirely on the fact that he’s the most famous person from San Antonio, NM and his name was given as “Connie.” However, in reality, Hilton was somewhat famous by then. Wouldn’t Don have recognized him?
I don’t think so. I mean, Bill Marriott is pretty successful and well known now, but would you recognize him if you met him at a party?
Also, it was Pete who was pointing out the who’s-whos to Don at the party (e.g., the DuPont guy); Pete actually belongs to that world… Dick doesn’t.
I was surprised at the beginning of the dance number to see how well Pete danced – thinking it one of those subtle Mad Men character things that wouldn’t be a major point. Of course, they then turned it into an entire dance routine, thereby making a major point of it.
But then they did the really nice bit with the other guy’s wife storming off, in the background. Stuff like that is why I like this show.
I imagine perfecting their dancing is exactly the sort of thing barren upper-class couples of the sixties did with their time. Once that thought struck me, it all rang very true.
Actually, I imagine that Pete and Trudy had the sort of childhoods where they were sent off for dance lessons, or learned how in prep school.
Even if Don had recognized him, I don’t see Draper as the type to give two-shits about someone’s celebrity.
Didn’t the guy say he was doing work for the governor or something, though?
The guy working in the governor’s office was the one who flirted with Betty.
At first I thought Connie was a bartender, with that awful white jacket. Is that another sign of a wealthy, powerful person – they don’t care about fitting in?
That’s the first thing I thought of, based on his name alone. I didn’t know that Conrad Hilton was from NM.
That’s what Don thought, too. He asked him for an old-fashioned, and Connie said “You and I are on the same mission.”
I think it probably was supposed to be Hilton. How many rich 75 year-old guys from San Antonio, NM, named Connie could have been around in 1963?
I think Don also thought he was a bartender. I doubt they’ll bring back Connie, but I like to think Don’s interaction with him was meant to contrast with Pete’s approach. Until Don told him not to, I think Pete would have handed out his business card left and right. Instead, Don developed a relationship with “Connie” through sharing the stories of being on the outside looking in.
Peggy’s secretary: I think that storyline could go one of two ways. (forgot her name, I’ll call her Mrs. S). Mrs. S has been working a long time, knows a lot, doesn’t have much going on in her personal life, so didn’t mind staying late to ‘chaperone’ Peggy. I think she might become so impressed by Peggy’s ambition and advancement that she will undergo a change and they will make a wonderful team. Protective mother figure (tolerated because Peg’s real mom is such an old fashioned pill), yet behind Peggy with her encouragement, knowledge, and experience all the way. Or - Mrs. S will grow to be more of a scolding drag on Peggy, leading to a most awkward and painful firing scene. Either way, Mrs. S is going to do something noteworthy.
Or Peggy could just fire her next episode and get it over with. Find herself a new, forward-looking assistant on her rise to power. Because I believed Peggy when she told Mrs. S that she had no fear, a great future was hers, Mrs. S was the one with the fear, and that she (Peggy) was going to be a big success. It’s true, Peggy is going to be the first to embrace the coming social changes; she isn’t a pretty debutante or trophy wife material, she is working hard to get ahead, and she is showing liberation in her personal life - having a one-night stand, not keeling over in a dead faint when confronted by a European homosexual, moving on with her life after giving up her baby for adoption.
What the hell kind of Derby party are you at if you have to go looking for some bourbon? I guess they may have used it all in the juleps, but it still seems wrong. (Juleps should be mixed fresh anyway.)
I’m sure the minstrel act was especially jarring to me and my fellow Kentuckians, who are used to hearing “My Old Kentucky Home” rendered all earnest and heartfelt before the Derby and after UK basketball games. As if it weren’t cringeworthy enough.
Well, it is a minstrel song.
I spent at least a full minute wondering why they’d sing “My Old Kentucky Home” after a basketball game in the United Kingdom :smack:
Speaking of the European homosexual; is Kurt gone? Isn’t this the first time we’ve seen Smitty sans Kurt? Creative or not I don’t Sterling-Cooper is going to tolerate any of it’s homosexuals stepping outside of the closet.
One would think this is the more likely option, but I was also convinced Granpa McCain would molest (or at least beat) Sally instead of bonding with her. These are the same people that set us all up last season to believe that Peggy’s nephew was actually her bastard child; then revealed that her sister really was pregnant at the same time and he was put up for adoption.
I wonder if Pete’s changed his mind about adoption. It’s clear he doesn’t give a fuck what is mother thinks anymore (& it’s not like she can dangle an inheritance in front of him). Trudy’s forgiven him for abandoning her in the face of an impending nuclear holocaust.
I totally don’t get Pete and Trudy’s relationship. Are they happy? Are they putting on a proud public face? Did she stand up to daddy? Is she just suffering in silence because you cannot divorce? What, I implore you! What???
I think Olive (Peggy’s secretary) was a flapper in the 20’s or hung out in the jazz clubs in her youth and that’s why she knows about pot. I think she was an independent woman of her era and it all, ultimately, ended with traditional marriage and being a secretary instead of a career woman. I think she doesn’t want Peggy to get her hopes up the way women (I presume) did in the Roaring 20’s in New York only to end up only slightly better than their mothers.
I get the impression that, between seasons 2 & 3, with Peggy’s rejection of Pete and Pete’s falling out with his mother and Pete’s telling off of his father-in-law that the slate was cleaned off for Pete and Trudy to start fresh. When Pete called with the Head of Accounts news back in 3.01, she sounded chipper and happy to have him call and seemed genuinely supportive in 3.02 when he was pissed about sharing the job with Cosgrove.
Maybe next episode will have it all go to hell but there hasn’t really been tension between them this season. Even Campbell’s mini-tantrum when his wife visted the office wasn’t about her but about the job situation.
All right, now I’m starting to seriously think that Joan might be in the early stages of pregnancy. That would explain her weight gain, and her reaction at the dinner party when the older woman told her (paraphrasing), “Whatever you do, don’t get pregnant.”