They’re bringing in an older guy in a suit to serve under Peggy? He’ll sit with Stan & Ginsberg & the other weirdos? It seems to me the NYC partners are a bit too conservative for that; Joan has a very small share.
Nope, I think that Peggy’s look at the corner office was just a clue to her aspirations. Which will be kept on hold as she works under a guy who, at least, seems resolutely unattractive. As the next season opens, we may get a hint that enough time has passed that Don is missed. By some in the office, at least.
Well, apparently they did care if Pete knocked stuff down
I didn’t see enough space to make driving the car worthwhile. Too much other stuff in the atrium (front desk, other cars, displays, benches, people). Especially since the whole schtick was the thrill of driving a powerful car which isn’t much of a thrill at 20mph. I “get” the scene, I just don’t buy it.
Well, the suit could have been primarily for interviewing purposes. I’m sure Stan wore a tie his first day, too.
I have a harder time imagining them bringing in an unknown guy they headhunted to hold one of the most important spots in the company versus having Peggy, a proven asset who has led creative before, do it on a temporary basis. Either until Don is back, they pull Ted back from CA or something else. Guess we’ll find out next season though.
I assumed that had Pete driven the car forward, there would have been a big set of doors through which he could drive the car out of the building (which would have been this one, I think).
I don’t think so. Pete demurred at driving the car in the building and Bob said he did it yesterday and the GM guys were like “It’s our building”. It didn’t sound as though he was going out onto the street.
They didn’t care that he knocked stuff down; they cared he couldn’t drive a stick. If he’d been caroming around showing off and knocked the same thing down, they’d have been cheering him on.
I’ve read that that set is a pretty faithful re-creation of GM’s real lobby. There were probably real-life stories about people driving the new hot rods around in there that Matt Weiner incorporated into the show.
He’s not an unknown guy; Don knew who he was. When they hired Ginsberg, Don neither knew who he was nor did he care – as far as Don was concerned, all the Ginsberg-types were interchangeable nobodies. Whomever Duck was bringing in to interview was definitely not on a Stan or Ginsberg level.
Remember that Don was not supposed to know about this guy coming in – Duck came in early (as Don pointed out; probably deliberately and maliciously on Duck’s part). When Joan said that Ted would direct Peggy from California, she was being diplomatic. As we’ve seen since this show started, when clients come in for an office visit, they expect to meet with the Creative Director. If Ted is in California, they need someone in NY. As Peggy will still be reporting to Ted, she won’t be heading Creative. Ergo, they need someone new in NY for that.
That’s the point; the nameless fellow accompanying Duck is the new creative director. Ted would have had the job had he not gone to California to save his marriage from Peggy’s tempting ass, but as he moved to California to save his marriage from Peggy’s tempting ass, that cannot be the case.
There’s no information, of course, but I wonder if the new guy will be asked to buy a partnership so as to be on a more equal footing?
Also, it would not be worth Duck’s while to headhunt a Ginsberg or Stan (or probably, not even a Peggy). He deals on the Pete or Don level – that’s probably why he popped back up earlier this season, to twist the knife that Don is being replaced.
And he was essentially forced into the partnership because Sterling & Cooper noticed Don was being courted by other agencies and wanted to lock him down. I can’t imagine they’d want the same marriage with a new guy they hired.
95% of the time we see Duck, he’s being a chump. I’d figure it to be worth Duck’s while to fish a half-eaten candy bar out of a sidewalk trash bin.
There’s a reason Duck is in the headhunting game; he’s pretty much unemployable in the advertising business.
Yeah, I’d say that the shot of him running into Don at the elevators was the only reason they brought him in throughout the season. Set up what he’s up to, what he does, and then when we see him we know. Classic use of “Show, don’t Tell.”
The show has treated the Chevy execs like cretins, including their treatment of Ken (the wild ride and then wanting to stop for lunch after shooting him) and driving Pete into the wilderness upon learning he can’t drive a stick (something you wouldn’t think would make a nickel’s worth of difference in an ad man).
Is this a preexisting stereotype of auto execs?
