I’m going to predict that Faye and Don will break up in next week’s episode over Don working for the anti-Semitic Walt Disney.
I don’t really like the character of Faye. She’s too normal and boring.
Is Faye Jewish?
Wasn’t that offer to “run away” made in the context of Pete was threatening to expose him? It was not a vacation offer. He was ready to bolt.
I’m pretty sure he wanted Rachel to bolt with him when Pete was threatening to expose him. That’s when she was like “Hmmm…ok…wait what about your kids?” When he wanted to take Midge away, he just invited her to join him in Paris.
It was mentioned in one thread here that she used a few Jewish phrases.
See here for more details. The show can sometimes be real subtle.
I assumed she was Italian because she talked about her dad being a two bit gangster, which I took to mean the mafia.
But she does use some Jewish phrases…hmm.
It was also illegal to own significant amounts.
She could have a Jewish mother (and thus be Jewish in the eyes of a rabbi) and have an Italian father. As Gregory House would say, that explains everything.
Plus there’ve been Jewish mobsters – as well as Irish and polish – so we needn’t bring the Italians into the equation at all.
After a weak episode or two, a really great one. But I can’t really put my finger on what made the whole thing gel so well. John Slattery also directed “The Rejected” which was a good episode.
Don tearing out the pages of his journal was perfect. He needed to do a “new” new start. I think his ad’s main effect is to fast forward the company to where it would have been in 6 months. Not necessarily saved it, but at least it will get them back into a position of getting people to take meetings. The tacit acknowledgement between Don and Peggy about how her “change the story” suggestion was behind it was great. Being subtle was called for in that exchange.
Midge rejecting the check was strange. It didn’t take much to cash a check in those days.
Glen is so wonderfully odd. I wonder how friends of the Weiners complement them on their son’s performance. “We saw Marten on last week’s episode. He was such a perfect creep. You must be very proud.”
Yeah, Faye knows something’s going on with Megan. As to her talk with Peggy. I think Faye believes (like most people at SCDP) that Peggy slept with Don. So she’s kind of chilly to her. Peggy saying how she liked Faye since she didn’t play games. Um, that’s what we saw Faye doing all the time in her first appearances. The name tag thing and such.
Perfect amounts of Betty and Sally in this episode. The actress who plays Sally is amazingly good.
One thing really ticked me off though: The “coming attractions” consisted entirely of old clips (including ones from this episode). They couldn’t show us any bits from the next episode at all? What’s going on here? I have gotten used to being mislead by the preview and now we don’t get a real preview at all.
Carla Buono explains how she differsfrom Faye:
Midge’s dealer probably worked on a cash-only basis. She couldn’t wait.
Answers to your last questions: They could have, but they chose not to. Because they are torturing us.
Remember, after this Sunday we will have* many* months without Mad Men!
You are correct. It’s weird how hard it is to differentiate some secondary characters in Mad Men even thought they are distinctly different.
I didn’t realize Faye was Jewish until she referred to Don’s “punim”. Of course, Harry has been using Yiddish words that he picked up from his show-biz contacts, but he’s so awkward about it that it’s obvious he’s not Jewish.
AMC did the same thing with last season’s finale. And the ad campaign for this season consisted entirely of clips from seasons 1-3.
I was glad of it. I don’t want to be spoilered.
Pryce came from the British firm that bought Sterling Cooper. He was installed to cut their costs and make the firm more profitable. Just a nitpick, of course, since you’re right he didn`t get any of that buyout, but for the record he actually arrived after it.
Last season the leaders of the British firm that owned Sterling Cooper treated Pryce really poorly. Not just because they were going to send him to India, but they had just a supremely douchey attitude that they could just send him anywhere like chattel and it was absurd for them to even consider his wishes. I always understood it to be because he wasn’t from the same social class as them. I don`t understand social class in the UK now, let alone in the 1960s, so maybe I’m wrong about that. But I thought we were supposed to understand that Pryce was not an upper class sort of fellow.
Class in the UK has more to do with ancestry than money. It’s entirely possible that Lane’s father was the middle class man who clawed his way into the upper class (in terms of finances), he could’ve even married an upper class girl, and despite the Pryce family having just as much money as them, living next-door, hiring domestics from the same agency, sending Lane to the same public school, university, etc they’re still considered middle class and beneath them.
Pryce’s father was in sales. That’s definitely not upper class.
If you can be spoiled by Mad Men previews, you should set up shop as an oracle.
Last week’s previews made it look like Don was trying to get hired elsewhere (“My firm doesn’t know we’re talking.”). Week before that, it looked like Joan was going to meet Dr. Rape at basic (lonely shot on the bus).
Pretty much the only thing I’m sure of after seeing the previews for the next week is, whatever it looks like, is the one thing that won’t happen.
Well, that means that one option is eliminated, doesn’t it?
The preview bit that made it look like Peggy was about to be fired meant that Peggy was NOT about to be fired.