Note to one and all: It’s Megan. Not Meghan. This has been pointed out in previous threads.
A very interesting episode. Yeah, a lot of “what the???” stuff. Especially the sudden proposal. Apparently I wasn’t the only doper who first thought it was a dream sequence. I was thinking it might be Megan’s dream until Don pulled out the ring. So it had to be Don’s dream. Except it wasn’t.
Didn’t have the same “season finale” feel as last season’s, but great none-the-less.
Lot’s of little great moments. Peggy and Joan having cigarettes together. Don and Megan’s first bed conversation. Glenn talking back to Betty. Etc.
The top for me was the look on Peggy’s face when she saw Don and Megan being congratulated. Made her whole “feelings for Don thing” clearer than the episode where she worked all evening for him and missed her boyfriend’s dinner with her family, and in just one look.
The Betty story arc was interesting. A fight with Henry. Laying on Sally’s bed (reinforcing the Betty as a child imagery). Touching up her makeup while waiting for Don to show up, and pretending like she didn’t know he wasn’t going to be there. She now knows that staying with Don would have been better than running off with Henry. Even if it wasn’t going to be an ideal marriage. Starting to have a little concept of realistic expectations.
If Betty and Henry are kaput, than Don getting the kids is a lot more likely. She may not even want to keep the kids without Carla around to raise them and if she’s single.
Like AuntiePam, I was dreading that something horrible was going to happen to one of the kids while Don and Megan were in bed.
I had assumed that the woman Don confessed his background to would be The Woman. But he only half confessed to Faye, and not all to Megan. So he’s not there yet.
And regarding Faye: She doesn’t know who Don is (i.e., Dick Whitman), she just knows that he isn’t really Don Draper. She can of course use this against them. The two extremes are:
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Going nuclear. Let all of Madison Avenue know about this. Try to kill Don’s career.
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A surgical strike. Just tell Megan in order to ruin the engagement. Perhaps even an anonymous tip so that it’s not traced back to her and she would try to get Don back.
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Tell Opal.
But having Faye’s dad exact a physical revenge fits in more with why Faye’s back story was filled in this way.
(And I’m still rooting for Phoebe, BTW. I know, I know.)
Robert Morse is still listed in the opening credits, even though Bert has quit. But that’s pretty standard. I keep thinking back to last year’s finale when Bert warned Roger about what happens to men like them when they retire. 6 months (?) later and (finger falling over). So we can expect a funeral for Bert next season, or to be referred to as having taken place when they come back.
Zosia Mamet, Joyce, is also appearing lately on “Parenthood”, but as a high schooler. I don’t think so. (She’s the daughter of David Mamet and granddaughter of Russel “Sound of Music” Crouse. Interesting lineage.)
Flubs of the week. (Stop reading here if you don’t care for these things.)
The painted names on the wall are different. The originals were done much more neatly. The new ones are shaky. Note especially the second “N” in “ANNA”. The original is straight with only a small space on the underside of the “N”. The new one is very wiggly with a larger space on the underside of the N. (The gap between the first and second strokes.) The original shot had masking on the baseboard so they couldn’t re-use it. But apparently no one thought to take the masking off and re-shoot it while they were there the first time.
Watch the sheet on Megan’s chest when Don is about to propose to her. When she first sits up, the sheet slides down. Then it is shown still over her chest in the next shot.
The box on the counter magically moves. Note especially the last time Betty puts it back down. It’s short end is facing nearly straight to the opposite side of the counter. But then when she picks it up, it’s nearly facing the end of the counter.
