I also feel kind of sorry for Faye, but she A) predicted that Don would be re-married within a year, so she should have known what kind of person she was getting involved with, and B) she compromised her own professional ethics to get Don the interview with Heinz. So it’s part “you should know better” and part “he wasn’t good for you, anyway.”
I think Don’s ditching Faye was a horrible thing to do to her, but maybe he chose Megan because she was beautiful, nearby, available, and good with his kids. Who knows, maybe learning that Betty fired Carla made him realize the kids would need him more than ever, and a pretty young stepmother certainly would come in handy. But he didn’t have to look so darned happy about it, breaking the news to the office! :mad:
What was with those shots of Don in his hotel room, staring off into space? That made me very uneasy.
I think this is important.
Don told Peggy that Megan has many of the same qualities that he admires in Peggy. The unspoken message here, i think, is that Peggy and Megan might have plenty in common, but Megan is hot. I think also that Peggy realized that this was the case.
Yes! I also thought that while watching.
The scene between Joan and Peggy was spot-on–just what would happen in real life. I liked Don more this episode because of how much he wanted his kids to have a good time, but disliked how he treated Fay. But she sure was right when she said he only liked the beginnings of things. Smart woman–too smart for Don.
Betty is so messed up. Can someone remind me why she hates Glenn so much? I watched the show only sporadically the first two seasons.
It’s kind of hard to explain why Baetty hates Glenn. Just decribing the incudents between them doesn’t nevessaril Make rhings obvious. He’s kind of like an ex-boyfriend of hers.
Well, that was a hot mess.
Some of the parts could have been interesting, in isolation… were this not the freakin’ season finale. It was like this season built up to an anticlimax. Meh.
For your second part: those are the words I’ve been looking for since I watched it. I knew it was coming and hated every second of it, and after every scene ended I was still like WTF?
And the Peggy and Joan scene was great. I’m not happy about Joan’s pregnancy only because the show just seems to be becoming repeating plot points. Someone’s pregnant, someone’s marrying their secretary, blah blah blah.
There were only two things about the show I can think of as “good things” - the Peggy and Joan scene, and the fact that I found it so disappointing that I won’t be waiting impatiently for the next season to start.
Did anyone else think the commercial breaks were awfully abrupt? I mean, commercials always are, but more than one seemed to be placed 10 seconds before the scene was done, if you know what I mean.
A decent episode on its own, but not at all what I expected from the season finale.
First, it was predictable - and this coming from someone who never thinks too far ahead when watching a plot unfold.
Second, it was the season finale - I really expected something dramatic and unexpected, something shocking, where today would we all be saying “did you see what happened last night on Mad Men?” You know, Betty committing suicide or the FBI showing up to take Don away or the gay ex-art-director saving the company by bringing new business - something other than, as one noted, a “Hallmark moment”.
I still enjoy the show, but it has lost its jarring plot twists common in the first couple of seasons.
The biggest question for me is: what the hell am I going to watch now?
Then Mel Tillis can write a song about it, that Kenny Rogers could sing.
Same, but I’m not going to be anxious for next season to begin like I’ve been for the past few years. But when it does begin, that first episode better blow my f’ing doors off with something completely unexpected, or I’m going to start losing interest.
After last week’s episode, everyone seemed to think that some big campaign would save the company, perhaps as a result of the Disney trip or the American Cancer Society meeting, but instead Peggy and Ken won a very small account. So presumably over the next six months, they’ll crawl back to solvency. But I wonder in what year the next season will be set.
To me it almost felt like a series finale. with the firm’s business starting to pick up and Don and Megan’s happily ever after moment (which gagged me, by the way). The Betty story line felt like closure to where I can’t imagine nor am I very interested what will become of her character. Aside from Joan’s pregnancy, it didn’t have any cliff hangers and, while I’ll definitely miss it and will tune in when it starts again, it’s not as though we’ve been left with any burning questions or situations to really think about or look forward to.
Also, am I the only one that cannot stand any of the women Don has been with? I felt sorry for Faye but I couldn’t stand her so I won’t miss her. Megan gets on my nerves with her . . . wide eyed innocence (?), I hated the the other blonde he was seeing, Midge was okay at the begining but her return made me hope for her speedy o.d. I don’t think it’s a case of my “crush” on Don coloring my vision and making me “jealous”. It just seems they cast exceptionally unappealing actresses for him to interact with.
The choice between Megan and Faye was really a choice between remaining under the Don Draper mask or embracing Dick Whitman. Unsurprisingly, he chose to run back to Don Draper.
Except that Carla lost.
Also, is it a bitchfight when there’s only one bitch involved?
I think it’s hilarious that the one thing Megan thinks she knows about Don is that he’s “got a good heart,” when he doesn’t.
I’ve always felt that way about Don’s love interests too. I like Don but I often feel that I shouldn’t, his personal life is a train wreck and he tends to be a philandering dickhole. Still, I like Don.
There’s the rub, it would be awfully hard to forgive Don his many sins if he was paired with someone even half way likable.
I noticed this once. I forget the scene, but Peggy’s face was on the screen, and it cut to commercial in an oddly abrupt way, even cutting off the incidental audio in a way that isn’t usual, it seemed.
Faye was growing on me a bit, but barely. As I can remember them: I liked Midge initially, opening Don’s world view a little; I hated hated hated the school teacher, who was boring and so self-righteous; can’t stand Megan, bland and clearly attempting to use Don as a career-boost; thought the Bobbie affair made an interesting story, but didn’t care much about it; Bethany was also dull and really brought the stupid to every scene she was in; Alison was sweet and charming though very naive and was just meant for us to see how far Don had fallen. And I loved forever and ever Rachel Menken, who I can only hope we’ll see again though it’s better for the story if she’s the lost love, I think. Don’s equal who got away.