I gather that Ted has left his wife, and hence left his misery behind. But what happened to Jim Cutler?
I agree. Don is stumbling around, alone, confused, and rebuffed. Roger is suddenly a lackey for the big firm. Ken is uprooted and a babbling mess. Peggy is momentarily happy, which feels weird. Joan hates where she is and how she got there, and whereas she used to be unfailingly discreet, now she is lashing out at everyone around here.
I’m just referring to his being a frustrated writer. When he was working at the agency, he could at least tell himself that he was part of creating something. Now he’ll just be buying other people’s work.
Not only is he not dropping out to be a writer; he’s gone to work for the makers of napalm, for which he had earlier criticized his father in law.
Though he didn’t seem that upset to fire Ken. If anything, Roger’s probably chipper as hell – he’s gotten millions of dollars from the merger (based off the minor partners like Joan getting a million-plus), McCann is probably more welcoming of Roger’s three martini “work style” than the new Sterling Cooper was with Gleason around and, if it comes down to it, he just rides out his mandatory year and retires on his big pile of money.
The longer the sides, the more “badass” it is. Roger isn’t a badass. His should be more clipped on the sides.
The scene with Joan & Peggy in a meeting was awful.
The scene after, with them in the elevator, made it more awful 
I’m not saying it’s good ('cause lord knows it ain’t). I’m just saying it wasn’t uncommon.
Well, except for the scene of Don turning over in bed immediately after the dream.
Well, it would have been more upbeat if they wouldn’t have skipped over the Miracle Mets '69 World Series win in October :p.
Also Ted opened the door to let Rachel in, and Pete was the one by the door to let her out. That could have been that Pete jumped up instead to do it, but it was very dreamlike for one person to suddenly become another person.
Both of those scenes were upsetting. I want Joan and Peggy to be partners against all the chauvinism they face, but I understand why they don’t, because of their different perspectives and different paths to where they’ve gotten to. They were much more professional at that meeting than I could ever imagine being, but I know they’ve had a lot of experience dealing with it.
The only tipoff for me was what Ted said - something to the effect of “…and here’s another girl…”. Seemed very out of place.
The mustache was exactly perfect and authentic for the times. Alas. In my 1971 wedding picture, my husband has exactly the same one.
Women as allies in the business world just hasn’t happened yet. Ms. Magazine, a harbinger of changes, started in 1972. (I still have my “Ms. Magazine Birthday #1” commemorative t-shirt.)
Was your husband 70 years old when you got married?
Hehe. Well, there is that.
Roger, Roger, Roger…whaddya gonna do…?
Heh. If you keep scrolling down, his actually looks more like Hulk Hogan’s.
Maybe the old Roger- pre LSD.
No, that mustache says it all.
For those who weren’t around then, Dow recruiters got routinely picketed on campus. It is not the place where anyone remotely idealistic would want to work.
One big difference is that for the last few seasons they’ve been on the ragged edge of failure. Now they are fat and happy again, kind of like at the beginning. I’m not sure that’s an improvement.
Unfortunately is was n accurate representation of how we were perceived back then and there was absolutely no recourse but to smile and solider on.
This episode has me scratching my head.
I really didn’t get the waitress at the diner at all.
I didn’t at all follow what happened with Ken.
I didn’t follow Peggy’s story, either.
However, I did enjoy the episode, but just really didn’t get it.
Also, interestingly, the office scenes felt somehow empty. Not really sure why, but they did.