People scrambling for a seat in a lifeboat, and living or dealing with others’ dying. The agency drowning. Don keeps having moments of giving his own people pitches and fights to the end like he does with clients; his workplace self knows how to save himself from his drowning even going back to the pilot. But Pete is failing in his pitches. When you drown or dying in general you fight, kick and claw any way you can. That was Don fighting in the workplace as he knows; the pitch. That’s Roger who always has something up his sleeve. That’s Pete, fighting on two different fronts and even physically fighting.
And with the drowning of the agency and everyone involved, when Peggy says that, it reminded me of the Titanic survivors in the lifeboats. They all heard the screams but chose to stay within themselves. All those people probably thought the same things regarding those they in essence cast aside by not going back to them; thinking I don’t know what will happen to them and it’s not because I don’t care. But it’s hard to argue they didn’t do the right thing.
Don for now survives the drowning, and like after a tragedy makes the phone call looking for Diana and can’t find her. And on Diana’s end, if you die alone you say goodbye and no one hears you but they get the message (if that’s in fact what happened with the character). Peggy during this drowning doesn’t know where her kid is. Death, and even pre-death is one big goodbye. Lou says goodbye. Ken says goodbye complete with shutting the door behind him. Peggy is looking to say good bye and move forward and is remembering another good bye she has said before, regarding her chance at motherhood.
Goodbye and moving forward is what a funeral is. They say funerals are not for the dead; funerals are actually for the living. Hobart gives a funeral. He speaks of Heaven. He speaks of leaving. And most importantly he speaks of stop struggling. Interesting bc that’s what you want from the sick, dying or in this case drowning; stop struggling and accept it because that’s what brings peace. Then the pain goes away. Then after the funeral Roger and Don, at the bar, Don with the drunk sweats and sagging hair, decide to engage in what is a part of a funeral’s afterward; the drunk philosophizing. I found the end visuals interesting. Bright windows, bright light etc and not just bc it’s morning. Decisions have been made, funeral attended, acceptance taken. Don is moving on from his dark wooden brown coffin looking apartment. Diana is apparently gone from hers in whatever way. Peggy is going to move on/forward from her own brown dark apartment. And the guy mentions to Peggy the idea of a future in 1973. Moving on and forward from the 60s. What do you move on to after death? The light. In the very end, it’s all bright and sunny visually because it’s new and during Don’s last words and the reaction, the camera pulls out and gets even brighter. But all the brightness surrounding a post-funeral speech in that last scene did nothing for anyone in the office at the very end.
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Very Titanic tonight.
People scrambling for a seat in a lifeboat, and living or dealing with others’ dying. The agency drowning. Don keeps having moments of giving his own people pitches and fights to the end like he does with clients; his workplace self knows how to save himself from his drowning even going back to the pilot. But Pete is failing in his pitches. When you drown or dying in general you fight, kick and claw any way you can. That was Don fighting in the workplace as he knows; the pitch. That’s Roger who always has something up his sleeve. That’s Pete, fighting on two different fronts and even physically fighting.
And with the drowning of the agency and everyone involved, when Peggy says that, it reminded me of the Titanic survivors in the lifeboats. They all heard the screams but chose to stay within themselves. All those people probably thought the same things regarding those they in essence cast aside by not going back to them; thinking I don’t know what will happen to them and it’s not because I don’t care. But it’s hard to argue they didn’t do the right thing.
Don for now survives the drowning, and like after a tragedy makes the phone call looking for Diana and can’t find her. And on Diana’s end, if you die alone you say goodbye and no one hears you but they get the message (if that’s in fact what happened with the character). Peggy during this drowning doesn’t know where her kid is. Death, and even pre-death is one big goodbye. Lou says goodbye. Ken says goodbye complete with shutting the door behind him. Peggy is looking to say good bye and move forward and is remembering another good bye she has said before, regarding her chance at motherhood.
Goodbye and moving forward is what a funeral is. They say funerals are not for the dead; funerals are actually for the living. Hobart gives a funeral. He speaks of Heaven. He speaks of leaving. And most importantly he speaks of stop struggling. Interesting bc that’s what you want from the sick, dying or in this case drowning; stop struggling and accept it because that’s what brings peace. Then the pain goes away. Then after the funeral Roger and Don, at the bar, Don with the drunk sweats and sagging hair, decide to engage in what is a part of a funeral’s afterward; the drunk philosophizing.
I found the end visuals interesting. Bright windows, bright light etc and not just bc it’s morning. Decisions have been made, funeral attended, acceptance taken. Don is moving on from his dark wooden brown coffin looking apartment. Diana is apparently gone from hers in whatever way. Peggy is going to move on/forward from her own brown dark apartment. And the guy mentions to Peggy the idea of a future in 1973. Moving on and forward from the 60s. What do you move on to after death? The light. In the very end, it’s all bright and sunny visually because it’s new and during Don’s last words and the reaction, the camera pulls out and gets even brighter. But all the brightness surrounding a post-funeral speech in that last scene did nothing for anyone in the office at the very end.
Sometimes a pitch doesn’t work.
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