Maybe he’ll buy SC&P? :dubious:
The real question to come out of the whole school plotline is: Why didn’t Pete go there, if his brother did? Probably failed the drawing test, too…
I may have misunderstood but this was not a normal school but rather a school of the arts wasn’t it?
Pete didn’t attend this school. It’s pretty clear that this MacDonald guy wasn’t in charge of admissions when the rest of Pete’s family was attending.
Could be worse. Her backup school was Greendale.
Normal school. The Man Drawing test is a pretty typical kindergarten readiness test. The more you add the better an indicator it is of intelligence.
My exceptionally bright niece did poorly on it because she added few details (like clothes etc). When my SIL asked her later why she drew such a plain drawing she answered that it was a newborn baby just delivered and just had the umbilical cord cut and was waiting for the pediatrician examine her. Yet by the picture she wasn’t scored very high. Funny story (she’s almost done with her Phd, btw).
http://www.jonahlehrer.com/blog/2014/8/27/the-draw-a-person-test
Wasn’t this a much better episode because it focused on the principles at Stirling Cooper (and the only new characters were peripherals)? This is the real fan service. It was everything we’ve been asking for during the past couple of seasons. A Mad Men that felt like a real Mad Men. Finally.
Now let’s hope that Weiner doesn’t blow it in the time remaining. This would actually have worked fine as a closer.
Either do I but it made for a good feint towards the everyone moves to California idea.
She can’t leave. She is under a four year contract and has to work for them in that time or she loses the money. She has too much pride to do a crappy job.
Finally a great episode.
It was Greenwich Country Day School.
It’s Captain Freakin’ Pike! What’s not to like?
She might not need to work anymore, but I think it’s the exact opposite. She loves being an account woman. She was so disappointed last season when Ted turned landing Avon over to Pete that she basically stole them from him. She went the extra mile to get the information that would land that shoe business that was going to leave them and go in house. Last episode she told Captain Pike in bed “I finally got the job I’ve always wanted.” She looked pretty distressed in the cab with Pete when she said “Hobart listed off accounts for everyone but me.” I have no idea where she will end up after the merge, but I think it’s pretty clear she loves her job.
Wait. She DOES have to stay to get the money? I thought she already had it. So now she has to keep working to get the million dollars, or whatever it was?
If so, maybe she will quit and take up with her rich new old man. (but I thought she and her son were now financially secure and she was just working because, loved her Sterling Cooper job.)
Last week Roger tells Don (I think it was Don), “You have to stay, unless you want to give up the rest of the money”. And a few weeks ago, Pete tells Ken that the payments are staggered “for tax purposes”.
I think that they are getting their payouts over the course of their contract and, if they leave prematurely, they forfeit the remainder of their payouts. Cutler, from the sound of it, just sold out his shares somehow and took off for sunnier pastures.
And Joan said something this week about how they can’t quit because they have four year contracts.
Interesting episode in that I hadn’t thought about what must happen to the agency. If we’re to take this semi-seriously, as the show does itself, there is no known descendant of Sterling-Cooper today… so something has to happen to it. An unexpected turn that should have been obvious.
As for the partners’ options: Slavery being illegal even in 1970, they can all quit any time they like, but only by losing further payouts (in addition to salary, etc.) - and by not working in the industry for four years because of their noncompete agreements. Uh, strike what I said about slavery…
That’s exactly it. Thanks for explaining it better than my attempts.
The whole California thing didn’t make sense to me.
This was ultimately not a real estate issue. McCann had decided to discontinue Sterling Cooper as a separate entity. Why did they think that pointing out the existence of the California office would change their minds?
The reason they were given to dismantle SC was that renting two floors in the Time-Life building was too expensive when they had space with the home office. The downside was the they would have to drop conflicting accounts once they became absorbed into McCann. The CA office was much smaller and cheaper, so SC argued it was a good investment that let them keep profitable accounts by staying a separate entity in cheaper real estate.
I thought they had four-year noncompete contracts. So, they could quit, they just wouldn’t be able to work in the industry if they did so.
Four year with a non compete. Money over four years and if they decided to quit anyway, the couldn’t work in the industry.