Not to step on alphaboi’s toes, but it doesn’t look like there’s a thread for this episode yet. And I need to say, Holy Crap!
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I can’t believe Betty found Don’s Dick Whitman box. Although I don’t know if she’ll figure out the big secret - she was more shocked by his divorce certificate than anything else. For some reason, it never occurred to me that she would find out his big secret. Not without a long, slow breakdown of his carefully constructed life, anyway.
And Miss Schoolteacher is definitely trouble. What she said when they were on the train, about “as long as I know you’re with me,” is a big old warning light that she’s not willing to share Don with his wife and family.
The end of the episode, with Don at his pinnacle, and Betty about to go apeshit on him reminds of America and JFK. I assume that’s what all of this is leading towards.
I actually screamed at the TV “NOT THE DRAWER!!!”.
Or as one of my friends texted me at the end, “shit is about to get real for don!”
I think I’m done posting AMC’s episode description before the show airs and trying to speculate on what’ll happen (the promos are misleading & I’m usually wrong). Tonight’s episode was really, really, good.
Betty FOUND DON’S SECRET BOX! :eek: She’s clearly very confused about the labels on the childhood photos (especially since she’s never seen any photos of young Don) and dog tags, but she knows “Don” had another wife before her. And that he keeps a buttload of cash onhand. This is going to get really good and messy. And at the end she still prettied herself up for the party (she seemed numb even for Betty).
The Paul/Peggy subplot was okay, but they really weren’t competing with eachother for an account. Oh and Lois still works at Sterling-Cooper She could well bring the entire company down. Maybe she’ll decide to take the potential buyers on a toor off the roof or they’ll get a firearms company as a client. Peggy could have really fucked Paul over at he end, but she choose do something that made both of them look good.
Oh, loved the bit where Mrs Sterling Sr got confused and mistook her daughter-in-law for her grandaughter.
I don’t think Betty will confront Don about the box until she decides whether or not it matters to her. I mean, I know it matters, but does it matter enough for her to give up Don and her current life. She left him once before and came back. I can’t see her doing it again. Especially now that she also knows why Don married her – she’s pretty on his arm. She’s reading The Group – that might help her decide.
On the other hand, Don could come clean and let the soup hit the fan. Gosh but didn’t that sound silly? I can’t believe you can’t say “shit” on cable, not even in a show that kids don’t watch.
I liked Don showing some guilt over the way he treated his own brother. But he must not know much about epilepsy to think that letting the guy wander around jobless is a good idea. Suzanne (is that her name?) is bound to find out.
Agreeing with you 110%, WeirdOne. I get the sneaky feeling Miss Schoolteacher’s gonna flip her wig and do a “Fatal Attraction” on Don’s family :eek:!!
Did you folks catch the utter venom on Betty’s face during Don’s standing at the podium at SC’s 40th b-day party? If looks could kill that boy would be sprouting daisies.
I was thinking that maybe Peggy found Paul passed out and took his written down idea. I’m only speculating because of the shocked look Paul was giving her when she pitched the idea that telegrams were permanent. On the other hand, Paul would probably strangle her in a fit of rage, if that actually happened.
Good episode though, it’ll be interesting to see what happens between Betty and Don.
At the very beginning, Don is falling asleep on the School Slut after they’ve just boinked, he makes some Ad-Mannish comment about the color blue to her. IIRC, something about how 45% of people recognize the same shade as “blue”, and she comments that the others may think yellow is actually “blue” but I think Don falls asleep on her.
This title was a bit of a stretch – nothing as sublime as “Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency”.
I think Betty was more upset about finding the divorce decree than anything. I wonder how long she’s going to hold it all in. There are only 3 more episodes left!
The other ‘blue’ connection- Don absentmindedly dropped the desk key in to the pocket of his blue PJ’s (or robe, I forget), which was his downfall. Not that he’s down, exactly, yet.
Also, I’m pretty sure School Slut said “bullshit” in last night’s episode. Maybe Bert just doesn’t use that language.
The promos are worthless except for a few brief moments of more Mad Men until next week. Bert’s defiant “I won’t do it!” was him being petulant about going to a party? :rolleyes:
The desk thing was telegraphed the moment Don was interrupted putting away the cash. I spent the next half hour thinking “Just find the key already… I don’t need to watch you do a whole load of laundry”. Betty’s “Ah-HA!” face when the key clicked was gold though. And I was amused by her being unphased by more money stuffed into a drawer than most people made as a couple years’ salary in 1963. I also sort of pitied her, being all ready to confront this and staying up all night with the box out to get this all out for once and for all… only to have a long night alone douse the fire and leave her quietly seething but unable/unwilling to have it out like she should have. I wonder, if Don were honest about his past, what her reaction would have been (or might be)?
I was half expecting Paul to go all Hulk on Peggy, thinking that she stole his non-existent idea paper.
I learned that Sterling is the son of Bert’s former partner and found Don working in a fur warehouse. Small steps towards learning how he went from used car sales to $40k/year ad executive.
The series will end when Cosgrove gets an account with ACME Explosives & Demolitions Supplies and leaves a box of dynamite where Lois can get at it.
I asked my wife “if you found a key to my desk and opened that drawer, would you pull out the box or count the money first?” She’d count the money. It’s almost as if Betty was looking for that box- she went right for it.
Also, Sexy Schoolmarm gave her brother, what- $375? That’s a shitload of money for a schoolteacher in the 60’s who lives above a garage. She was so casual about it, like “oh by the way, there’s $50 in there”, not like “hey listen- I know you need money so I’ve been saving up and there’s $375 in there- that’s a month salary for me, so, you know, put it to good use”.
He said something about how she was doing that kind of thing all the time, so she probably didn’t bother to explain. It was already a thing with them.
I thought it was adorable how Peggy apologized to Olive for burping into the dictaphone. It’s also interesting that she thinks Don hates her, or at least that’s what she told Paul. Maybe his most recent criticism was still stinging. I suppose she feels a little better now that she pulled a good idea out of thin air for Western Union, and Don acknowledged it.
Well, I noticed last week that Don did have Peggy working on Hilton. She was part of the crew during the “Give me more ideas to reject” scene and in the meeting with disappointed Connie.
Edit: who was the second “woman” in the car in the Aqua-Net “commercial”?
Paul’s Western Union idea – Achilles was talking about how men in his family are named Achilles. He said something about how at family gatherings, when someone says Achilles, all the men turn their heads. I don’t know what Paul’s brainstorm was – maybe everyone looks when they see a Western Union messenger, wondering if the telegram is for them?
More blue but probably inconsequential – the Brit guy’s wife was wearing a blue suit. She was so happy about going back to London. Smart of him not to tell her that he’d probably be sent to Bombay instead – let her be happy for awhile.
We also learned that Don went to night school. The fur thing – wasn’t there something with Don and Betty and a fur in season one? Was Betty modeling furs and Don gave her one?
She could well bring the entire company down. Maybe she’ll decide to take the potential buyers on a toor off the roof or they’ll get a firearms company as a client. Peggy could have really fucked Paul over at he end, but she choose do something that made both of them look good.