One child died, and she couldn’t handle it, so she abandoned the second. That was the big reveal when she dumped Don.
“I had two girls. One died. The other is in Racine, Wisconsin with her father.”
:smack: I cannot believe I missed that important aspect of her story. Apparently my dislike for her altered my attention span. Were there any other details? Now that I think about it, I’d kind of dismissed her story arc and now I’m wondering if there was a crucial part that may be important later (though so help me, if Don ends up with her I will have a hissy fit of epic proportions).
I think that was about it. She doesn’t want to feel anything anymore, or something.
I’m incredibly skeptical that Diane is so alluring that she has a stream of love-struck men headed to Racine to find her.
IIRC, she was driving a Honda scooter around in circles in that episode.
Oh yeah, that’s another point. This show is too well run for casting and writing to be so out of synch. The actress, or at least the way she’s made up / acts, is so patently *not *attractive in either looks or personality that Don falling so hard for her, much less her leaving a trail of broken hearts is just not plausible. I can’t believe Mr. Weiner could be so off the mark and it makes me feel like *I’m *the one who must be missing something.
It might be that she was banging half of Racine before she left. Don might have been the first one to come from somewhere else.
The girl Don was searching for is literally a McGuffin. She was his rationalization to just pack up and disappear which is something he has done his whole life.
Don made a reference to On the Road earlier in the episode, so I guess he’s now… on the road.
You know, before these last episodes aired I was pretty much done with the show only because there was such a long break and I just figured they could’ve cut it off and ended it as it was. But damn, this is good!! The writing and acting is off the charts. I’m loving every minute of it.
I’m sure you’re right; I guess my thing is that it seems a strange premise for the setup.
Did anyone else pick up on the “this is Don’s final goodbye” vibe in the scene with Betty? He goes to take Sally to school and she’s gone, the boys are otherwise occupied and Betty is seemingly moving on to a whole new chapter of her life. It was like there was nothing else left for him there and he had this air of resignation; goodbye to this life and on to the next. It’s a bit haunting.
The episode was good, but watching everyone try to fit their square pegs into McCann’s round holes was excruciating. Each person’s high hopes and optimism were doomed from the get-go.
McCann is like a whale and Sterling-Cooper is like the plankton that the whale inhales, digests, and excretes with no awareness. UGH. When Don came into that meeting as one of the nameless/faceless and realized that everyone in there had been told the same lie about his worth-- I just wanted to throw up.
And Joan. Yeah, I wanted her to make a big stink and sue…but it wasn’t to be. I also hate her new boyfriend.
I guess Diana rang some unconscious archetypal bell in Don’s psyche, 'cause I can’t see her appeal.
I gotta say I really like Meredith. Under that cotton candy head of hair is a very sharp, savvy, clever, aware brain.
The episode was good but it left me sick to my stomach.
I know right now that I’m going to cry like a baby at the end of the last episode.
I’m loving these last episodes even though there’s an odd vibe going on and things seem more than just different; something just ain’t right.
I’m hoping they’ll wrap it up with a “Six Feet Under” type ending where we find out how they all end up, but they’ll probably leave us to fill in the blanks.
Also, Joan’s beau has a creepy, slimy, used car salesman thing going on and I bet they’ll utilize that in some way. Hopefully Peggy will be the new McCann bad-ass. And I get the feeling that Don isn’t going to be coming back to work (for McCann anyway).
Pete and Ted seem like they’ll be okay at McCann. Pete’s willing to glad hand and work the room with the rest of the boy’s club and Ted said before that he’s content to just let someone else do the driving for a while. Roger, I’m guessing, is pretty much just there to run out the clock.
Definitely. Not at the time of the scene but it occurred to me after the episode was over.
Yeah, Don is gone. I don’t think he’ll ever see his family or anyone from his old life again.
Except for Harry and Pete. Pete will do whatever it takes to fit and Harry will sleaze his way in.
Or amuse himself. He was rich before the show started, got richer with the British merger, and got richer still with the McCann merger; he’s never needed to work. With Cooper dead, Joan not out out of the office but raising their son on her own and seemingly happy with another man, and Don possibly about to disappear, he’s gonna start ignoring the office fairly soon.
All of this; especially the part about crying when it ends. I can’t remember the last time I was so emotionally invested in a show. Even though many of the characters are unlikable at one time or another, they’ve endeared themselves to me. Or maybe I’m just bummed that I won’t have any other show to look forward to like I do MM.
Either way, I really feel a palpable sadness when I think of it going away. A bit pathetic on my part, really.:o
I was still holding out hope that Peggy and Don were going to open their own indie firm or something. But her walking down the hallway with that godawful picture was hysterical.
Joan and Don setting up lunch? I’m not seeing it, but I guess that was made evident in the “soon” line.
I envisioning the show ending with Don literally driving off into the sunset.
I’m guessing the next episode, the last one, will take place in present time. That would be very cool, except some of the key characters will be dead.