…but what about the fur? <snerk>
(Sorry, I’m letting my husband influence me too much these days.)
The color blue is all about how people may see things differently. I think this episode was full of examples of this sort of thing, like w/ Cooper wanting to skip the party and the Brit guy (forget his name) telling him that people will think he’s ill. Everyone sees something from a different perspective.
I think that was Ken wearning a kerchief.
Auntie, I think that’s how Don and Betty met…he ended up giving her the fur she modeled.
I did find it surprising that Betty didn’t seem fazed by the cash. Maybe she grew up in a household where the husband normally squirreled away the cash. Maybe she’s so used to the lifestyle it doesn’t bother her. Maybe she thought Don was saving up for a romantic getaway. But I think what threw her more was concrete proof that she really doesn’t know her husband at all.
Paul needs to suck up his whining. I thought the whole idea of Creative was to bounce ideas off each other until you get something the client will like. Peggy wouldn’t have come up with her streamlined idea if Paul hadn’t thought of the scenario first.
Next week…Joan, but still no Sal. 
IIRC Don talked about working as a Jr ad copywriter at the fur company in the “Carousel” episode. Also IIRC it has been mentioned several times in passing conversations that his father was of one of the founders plus the obvious name connection.
I thought it was an interesting side-plot. Peggy’s clearly taken Don’s criticism to heart and is stepping up her work. Paul is not. While Peggy was working late to come up with new ideas, Paul was getting drunk, jerking off, and passing out before he could write down his “brilliant idea.” Whether it was actually brilliant or not is impossible to determine, but I’ve never written anything while I was smashed that looked very good in the morning light. Now Paul’s struggling to keep up with Peggy, and he’s pissed. I was really surprised by the sudden revelation of his asshole side. He’s always seemed like a pretty good guy. After their second meeting with Don, when Peggy expanded on his “permanence” idea, I couldn’t tell if he was grateful to her for saving his ass, or fuming that she’d stolen the show once again.
I know! What’s up with that??? Was anyone made to take responsibility for what happened? Surely Guy should be suing the pants off S-C, but from what the Brits said, it doesn’t sound like there’s a huge lawsuit hanging over them. They’ve just been fattening the hog, and now it’s time for the slaughter.
There was something Lane’s wife said when they were driving to the party, something about going home to London when Lane was done working at S-C, that made it clear he never said anything to her about being relocated to India. If he is forced to move there, I think it’s going to mean a divorce.
Speaking of which, there’s got to be at least one divorce coming down the chutes. Sal? Pete? Don? Lane? Joan?
Oh, I missed that part. Why is SC up for sale?
Wait a second - does Don even know that his brother is dead? I remember him giving his brother the cash and hitting the road, but did Don leave anything behind that would have made it possible to find/notify him of his brother’s suicide?
Can anyone refresh my memory?
Great episode. I was thinking, “Not only would my mother have counted the cash, she would have taken it.” Cash? I have no idea what you’re talking about!
I flashed on Roger’s (very expensive) unloading of Mona. Nobody can take part of money they don’t know about. And maybe Don’s keeping his history in case he needs to NOT be Don Draper anymore. He can reclaim his old identity somewhere else.
I never really bought that Kinsey was a good guy. He’s always seemed like an overblown preening buffoon to me.
The Brits managed to turn the place around so that it’s running a profit, and now that it’s making money and is appealing, they want to turn around and offload it.
He looked shocked, but not angry to me. Like he just realized that she’s not a glorified secretary, and might actually be good at what she does. And Peggy didn’t have to mention that the idea of permanence came from Paul. He might even be grateful that she gave him the credit he was due.
I thought it was interesting how they’ve always seemed to portray Paul as a sort of progressive, bohemian type. But, when push comes to shove, it was much much easier for him (the character, not the writers) to fall back on the prejudice of the day and say “I am doing bad because you are a girl and that makes it easier for you” instead of realizing that Peggy is better and he is just performing poorly.
My bad dream scenario is that Cooper, Sterling AND Draper buy back the company.
Seems a bit too cute.
Way back in Season 1 (I think it was season 1, it could have been early in Season 2), Don had a change of heart and called the SRO where his brother was living, only to be told by the guy who answered the phone that Adam had committed suicide. So yes, Don knows his brother is dead.
That schoolteacher is a total bunny boiler for sure. Not just what she said on the train, but that she got on the train at all–and discussed their relationship in public! I thought for sure the guy in the hat behind them would be someone that Don and Betty knew. And the way she said “nice to have met you” was totally obvious baloney and fully visible to everyone in the train. I think the train thing is a Chekhov’s gun.
Also, the fact that she wanted to introduce Don to her brother? Introducing people to your troubling family members is not something you do with a fuck-buddy. And putting Don in a situation where he felt that he had to do the gentlemanly thing and drive the brother to Bedford? Same thing. She’s trying to draw him into her web.
Well, that about sums it all up, doesn’t it. Almost everything is leading toward that in one way or another. We coculd make a list!
She wasn’t one bit confused. She knew what she was doing.
I thought that they had also made it clear that Paul is just a poser.
I also got a weird vibe that they’re setting up a Paul/Peggy romance.
Did anyone notice that there were two references to ancient Greece and Rome? Obviously, we had Achilles the janitor, but someone else mentioned something Roman. I can’t remember what it was.
Maybe the next show will be all about everyone’s Achilles heel.
(I love that there’s a show that has this many nuances to discuss.)
Nah, the “woman” had dark hair, long enough to muss up and say “Oh no!” Ken has short blond hair. Also Ken was standing off to the side, smirking at them. It might have been one of the part-time pair (Kurt & the Non-Homo) but it didn’t look like them.
I like Cosgrove but part of me hopes there’s never a storyline really centered around him (even the Head of Accounts is more of a Pete plot). Mainly because Ken’s always chipper with no wife to lend drama and no real company weight on his shoulders since he’s good at his job and doesn’t have to support a family. If they gave him a real plot, it’d probably involve some dread fate befalling him.
His beatnik socialism had always struck me as a bit put-on, and this definitely confirmed it.
Thanks, Artemis. Okay, so major Don guilt…
I felt better about Paul after he spoke with the janitor. No one else was around so it wasn’t like Paul was trying to impress with his egalitarianism (remember his black girlfriend?). He’s still a poser, but his heart might be in the right place. If the Western Union idea makes him feel more secure in his work, he might continue to grow.
Not really. “Dick Whitman” died in Korea and his family buried him. It would be way too much trouble for Don to try go back to being Dick. He’d need to come up with a 3rd identity from scratch.
Excellent episode. That is all.
Ok, I forget. How long have the Brits owned Sterling Cooper? Is this a plausible storyline to have the agency sold so quickly?