Is there a reason for anyone to like Harry? he’s been the Larry Gergich of the office since the beginning.
Harry has been rude to Joan about the way she “won” her partnership, while his faithful service has been ignored. (She had been a valuable member of the team for years–and getting the Jaguar account helped save the firm.)
Roger probably doesn’t like him because Harry is a dork.
Harry is a dork, and a cheater who dropped his pants when the Hare Krishna told him (with a straight face, mind you), “I. burn. for. you.” :rolleyes: in some kind of sex blackmail that went wrong. For her. I wonder if Harry ‘burned’ with an STD after that sordid little encounter.
What an outstanding episode - all recovery and growth for a change. I agree, either the shot of Peggy and Don dancing or the final pullback from the diner could have closed a season, or the series.
I wish I could believe there weren’t some dreadful downers coming.
Harry may be a cheater but I doubt that’s what anyone’s holding against him given everyone else’s history (even Joan was Roger’s mistress for however long and then cheated on her husband with Roger).
I think Roger just, beyond thinking he’s a dork, has little respect for that end of the business and thinks Harry’s too California for him. He’s probably of the opinion that anyone could be doing Harry’s job. Roger must have gotten into the advertising game when he got back from WWII and before television became a big deal. He’s not much of a visionary (LSD trips aside) and has an “old guard” mindset with Harry still being a yapping pup.
You know, it’s looking like Cutler’s master plan to get rid of Don (and maybe then Roger) and take over SCP may not be as sure a thing as he thinks. He’s masterminded adding Harry as a partner, thinking that he’ll have Harry in his pocket… but I don’t think Harry would vote to oust Don.
So that splits the partners:
Cutler, Bert, Joan, Ted vs. Roger, Pete, Don, +Harry?
Except it is not a sure thing that Ted would vote to oust Don, either. (I’m assuming all the partner votes count equally; if junior partners votes count in accordance with their shares, it’d be too complicated to call.)
Of course, Cutler’s plan hinges on getting Phillip Morris and them wanting Don gone. Not a sure thing, either. And if Roger can land Pontiac, the plan unravels, too.
Looks like that’ll be the plot of the back season.
I can be pretty obtuse at times but what does this refer to:
AMC says: Pete receives an invitation to an exclusive club
Thank you- I was confused by that too.
He was invited by Bonnie to join the Mile High Club.
The Mile High Club.
ETA: Curse you, ninja-Lowry…
Oh! D’uh.
That was Don’s old office. Workday clothes because they never went home that day. Highly appropriate for them to reclaim that office when they made up and renewed their creative connection.
I don’t think it was a work day. Peggy had been working the weekend, and Don didn’t go in because Megan was in town. Then Megan flew home, and Don went into work – still on the weekend, I think (Sunday).
And Don’s old office is now Lou’s office, with the whacky bar that Pete commented on. I don’t recall Don going to a whacky bar to pour up their drinks…
A review I read, Sepinwall I think, pointed out that it was once Don’s office, here’s how he put it:
“And as Don invited Peggy to slow dance, in an office that was once his, and that each of them is more qualified to occupy than its current tenant…”
I’m slightly amazed that the partners are satisfied with Lou’s mediocre performance. But perhaps the point is that after the troubles with Don, they’re happy that he’s mediocre but safe; he’s not going to embarrass himself as Don did in front of Hershey.
Basically Harry is annoying (and as someone else mentioned was awful to Joan because he was jealous of her partnership). Also he fell ass backwards into something that made him important to the firm but never earned it (he basically created the “Television Department” by pulling it out of his own ass when they barely were advertising on Television).
Don likes him because he was loyal to Don when he didn’t need to be.
Harry also sort of shafted Joan back in the original Sterling Cooper days. Remember when she was helping Harry and gave him all sorts of insight on daytime television and women’s viewing habits? To which Harry pretty much said “that’s fantastic and I’ll use that to impress the clients… now go back to filing papers and doing your nails”? For an episode or two there it looked as though Joan was going to fill a new role in the company (as Peggy was doing) but instead she got shut down with a quickness.
Harry evolved into a dick, but in the early days he was a pretty likable character. He didn’t fall ass backwards into something important he SAW that it was important and that nobody at SC was paying attention to how important it was. It was like Pete and the “negro market”…but actually profitable.
I’ll need to watch it again to confirm, but my wife said she thought she noticed that Megan’s hair was much longer in the scene where she shows up at Don’s office than in the subsequent scene back at their apartment. It made me wonder for a moment if the blissful vision of her making breakfast for Don was a dream sequence or flashback.
Assuming it’s true, it seems unlikely that they’d let a continuity error like that slip by. I wonder what the deal was.
And I see that we weren’t the only ones who noticed.
…wigs most likely.