Outside of the emotive aspects, it still was a great episode in it's own otherwise as well.
What terrific writing. The dialogue between characters in every corner was so perfectly funny, smart, deep and poignant. Give them credit. Regarding the crafting of this episode I think it's a shame the dialogue writing may be overlooked, this was great.
I'll spare the repeating of lines but Peggy going for the nooner with Duck, saying she'll be, "at the printers" was terrific. Gotta love Peggy being one of the guys pulling Don's favorite excuse.
Speaking of Peggy and Duck, last week we had a parallel with 2 men dealing in their own way with younger women, at the same time. And we have it here again.
Even further speaking of young women, you have 2 young women fighting over the same older man, Jane and Margaret competing over Roger. Different ways obviously, but still competing.
Competition as a theme this episode: Pete vs Ken, Pete lost. Don vs Henry, looks like a loss in this round for Don. Jane vs Margaret
Pete: Pete was told by Pryce that the clients' needs are feeling met with Pete. Pete hates that, however, this is the best we've seen him meet his wife's need for comfort and attention and togetherness; i.e., ironically meeting his client's needs if you will. And if you notice, at the end Pete and Trudy are dressed a little more like Smitty as they're both talking rebellious about "the man" i.e. Sterling Cooper. I think that could end up being a big visual and foreshadowing for next year. Hmmm. We'll see.
Ok here's a thing for the women here:
I know nowadays we basically have almost no rules when it comes to appearance unfortunately, but I was under the impression that a woman is to never, ever, wear black to a wedding, at least back then if not now. Jane wore black. It fits the profile of Jane to be accidentally rude like that, and I'm almost positive that's the way it used to be. So, you tell me....?
I think Betty will get caught in her Henry business. In prior episodes we've seen her take on, in her own way, some parallels with Don. Know what else I think she's parallel with Don? Her sloppiness regarding her extracurricular activities. Taking a drive to go see someone who is not the spouse? What had Don been doing in the early mornings? Taking a drive to see someone who is not the spouse. Also, being shady in the meeting, wether it's him sneaking up to Farrell's place, or Betty meeting Henry in a parking lot. Both shady and sloppy. They deserve each other.
But back to a structural thing, Betty feeling grief over the events of the day is pretty much in conjunction with Betty feeling grief over her marriage and situation. And those two things colliding make for a bad marriage, pun intended.
Is there anything to Don, when he's chatting with Peggy at the end, looking at the Aquanet sketches but he flips them upside down back upon her desk?
Near the very end, Don coming downstairs to the disgruntled Betty doing the morning thing, looking right at Betty and you hear that cold wind, allegedly, from outside. No accident of audio.....
The obvious will get all the attention but this really was a great episode, give them credit.
MAD MEN
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Outside of the emotive aspects, it still was a great episode in it's own otherwise as well.
What terrific writing. The dialogue between characters in every corner was so perfectly funny, smart, deep and poignant. Give them credit. Regarding the crafting of this episode I think it's a shame the dialogue writing may be overlooked, this was great.
I'll spare the repeating of lines but Peggy going for the nooner with Duck, saying she'll be, "at the printers" was terrific. Gotta love Peggy being one of the guys pulling Don's favorite excuse.
Speaking of Peggy and Duck, last week we had a parallel with 2 men dealing in their own way with younger women, at the same time. And we have it here again.
Even further speaking of young women, you have 2 young women fighting over the same older man, Jane and Margaret competing over Roger. Different ways obviously, but still competing.
Competition as a theme this episode:
Pete vs Ken, Pete lost.
Don vs Henry, looks like a loss in this round for Don.
Jane vs Margaret
Pete: Pete was told by Pryce that the clients' needs are feeling met with Pete. Pete hates that, however, this is the best we've seen him meet his wife's need for comfort and attention and togetherness; i.e., ironically meeting his client's needs if you will.
And if you notice, at the end Pete and Trudy are dressed a little more like Smitty as they're both talking rebellious about "the man" i.e. Sterling Cooper. I think that could end up being a big visual and foreshadowing for next year. Hmmm. We'll see.
Ok here's a thing for the women here:
I know nowadays we basically have almost no rules when it comes to appearance unfortunately, but I was under the impression that a woman is to never, ever, wear black to a wedding, at least back then if not now. Jane wore black. It fits the profile of Jane to be accidentally rude like that, and I'm almost positive that's the way it used to be. So, you tell me....?
I think Betty will get caught in her Henry business. In prior episodes we've seen her take on, in her own way, some parallels with Don. Know what else I think she's parallel with Don? Her sloppiness regarding her extracurricular activities. Taking a drive to go see someone who is not the spouse? What had Don been doing in the early mornings? Taking a drive to see someone who is not the spouse. Also, being shady in the meeting, wether it's him sneaking up to Farrell's place, or Betty meeting Henry in a parking lot. Both shady and sloppy. They deserve each other.
But back to a structural thing, Betty feeling grief over the events of the day is pretty much in conjunction with Betty feeling grief over her marriage and situation. And those two things colliding make for a bad marriage, pun intended.
Is there anything to Don, when he's chatting with Peggy at the end, looking at the Aquanet sketches but he flips them upside down back upon her desk?
Near the very end, Don coming downstairs to the disgruntled Betty doing the morning thing, looking right at Betty and you hear that cold wind, allegedly, from outside. No accident of audio.....
The obvious will get all the attention but this really was a great episode, give them credit.
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