I get the impression that, at this point, Joan just wants a stable ship. Cutler helps provide that.
I figured it seemed obvious that Megan is separating herself from New York but couldn’t find it in myself to care. I still think that if Don decided to move out tomorrow (well, tomorrow 1969) she’d happily have him though so I wouldn’t call it over yet.
Obviously next week will be a clip show. “Remember the time Peggy got pregnant?” (show clip) “or that time Pete and Trudy danced at a party?” (show clip)…
I kind of thought that, but at the same time I wondered if it was Pete dealing with the separation/divorce in a real way. Even if he is dating some realtor, is he compartmentalizing and really hurt by the fact that she was out. I honestly hadn’t liked Pete much up to this point in the show, but it seems like it could have been something more than just being an ass.
Well obviously Pete was hurt that Trudy didn’t want to see him and so he lashed out at her the only way he could think of. Somewhat ass-ish, but also in some ways, understandable.
Pete is definitely a cheating ass, but Trudy isn’t blameless in the wreck of their marriage. Way back they were a genuinely happy couple – remember them dancing at Roger’s wedding? But that was before Trudy decided she wanted children (Pete didn’t), and before Trudy decided she wanted to move to the suburbs (Pete didn’t). Instead of working things out as partners, Trudy basically forced Pete to go along with her wishes. No surprise: that’s what she’d done with their apartment, previously.
In no way excuses Pete’s cheating ways – he was a cheating cad long before that point – but both of them behaved like petty children in that marriage.
But Jim loves Ted and Ted isn’t an “offer it back to them” type of guy. Ted’s too nice to tell the client their idea sucks probably, but he values original creative as much as Don.
IMHO, philosophy isn’t the problem- the problem is that Jim is a conniver who still has a vision to clean house as much as he can.
The preview for the season finale always consists of clips from past episodes & no actual footage from the upcoming episode; it’d make sense that they’d do the same thing for the “mid-season finale”.
Trudy is a very driven person with a very specific idea of what her life should be (she could be Annie Edison’s grandmother). She was & continues to be a huge bitch to Pete (even when he hadn’t done anything to deserve it). Both of them are better off without each other.
Ted’s a good soldier. If Jim wants it offered back, Ted helps come up with the best way to do it (in agreement between the two of course, Ted was a partner even at CGC). He wouldn’t take the account in an entirely different direction like Don would.
Except we have one more episode to go before the mid-season break.
Weiner can do whatever he wants in terms of providing clips, but it’s the labeling of them as “Next time” when they are “Previously” clips is my gripe.
I’m very very afraid of what Weiner is going to do to us in next Sunday’s episode. We’re definitely not going to end on the happy, peaceful, warm fuzzy, kum-ba-yah note of the last episode. There will have to be some kind of crisis/cliff hanger, and probably personal (because of the impact), not strictly agency-related. I just hope nobody dies.
