Don seems to have found a new mother and a waitress in Megan. Things taken care of for him. And that's all. WIth Faye, she wants to be owed. Allsion felt she was owed also. We don't even need to mention Peggy in this regard. Women want emotional payment from Don. But Megan doesnt demand that.
Remember Megan's line about not running out of here crying etc. Note the line of Don telling Megan to watch him on his drinking; asking for mother and a waitress. As well as, she fixes his trophy. She sees something wrong and fixes it for him. And even leaving in the end, she's telling him as he is leaving, how to go, taking care of him.
Don has two versions of home. He comes to his 1st home, i.e. work, Megan is waiting for him. He then comes home to his apartment, 2nd home, Faye is also waiting for him. Brunette vs blond both yet again waiting for Mr. Draper.
But he says "thank you" to Faye. Between his recent dealings with Allison and then Peggy in different ways, he's learned the lessons of honey vs his own lessons of vinegar with business, here with Megan and Faye. But did that get him a little toooo far?
Then there's that 3rd version of home, Betty, which as of last week was a little more positive, and was absent here tonight. Symbolical in my opinion, Betty's absense this episode.
Kicked to the curb vs the comeback:
Peggy kicked the artsy guy to the curb. He made a comeback. Roger has been kicked to the curb in more ways than one, he attempts a comeback. Faye kicks Don to the curb, he comes back with Megan, and then Faye herself.
The business is beat down at the end, but Don personally is making a comeback in now previously having an empty fishbowl, now he has too many fish.
Pete and Peggy have a parallel in that they're being fought over. Peggy fought over with the new guard and the old guard, and Pete now with the smarmy guy vs his own home of SCDP. Remember back when the one guy courted Betty to woo Don over, and Don told him on the phone, "bad move". The smarmy guy here tries the same thing with Pete. Showing up at the hospital and getting in with the in-laws to woo someone over for business?
Speaking of which we saw for the first time Roger in a light colored suit. Also, Roger yet again dealt with the immediate or the metaphor of death through a lense of sex, which is a whole other tangent we could go on with Roger. But Roger has felt death, yet again, here with the Lucky Strike thing. Also Roger has now been dealt another form of death through the end of Joan. Many things regarding Roger, we can say, it's over. Like Blankenship dying... the bell is tolling.
But in the end....
Don fights with the agency, clients, and fights with the blond who to him is home-like.
But, he finds sanctuary, a certain and simple and different kind of home, in the brunette.
Isn't this exact struggle what really is home for Don, his seemingly eternal search for home; yet...the struggle itself which is home?
Home with the blond, but sanctuary with the brunette. Do we men want home, or sanctuary? Or do we want both. But wait a minute...aren't they both supposed to be one in the same? Maybe, sometimes the real answer is...no. (que your booooing now)
Or is this one of the greater themes of Mad Men?
Home and sanctuary: are they synonymous, or actually in real life and marriage, mutually exclusive?
I know, Booo right? But MM makes you ask these questions...
MAD MEN
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Mother and a Waitress:
Don seems to have found a new mother and a waitress in Megan. Things taken care of for him. And that's all. WIth Faye, she wants to be owed. Allsion felt she was owed also. We don't even need to mention Peggy in this regard. Women want emotional payment from Don. But Megan doesnt demand that.
Remember Megan's line about not running out of here crying etc. Note the line of Don telling Megan to watch him on his drinking; asking for mother and a waitress. As well as, she fixes his trophy. She sees something wrong and fixes it for him. And even leaving in the end, she's telling him as he is leaving, how to go, taking care of him.
Don has two versions of home. He comes to his 1st home, i.e. work, Megan is waiting for him. He then comes home to his apartment, 2nd home, Faye is also waiting for him. Brunette vs blond both yet again waiting for Mr. Draper.
But he says "thank you" to Faye. Between his recent dealings with Allison and then Peggy in different ways, he's learned the lessons of honey vs his own lessons of vinegar with business, here with Megan and Faye. But did that get him a little toooo far?
Then there's that 3rd version of home, Betty, which as of last week was a little more positive, and was absent here tonight. Symbolical in my opinion, Betty's absense this episode.
Kicked to the curb vs the comeback:
Peggy kicked the artsy guy to the curb. He made a comeback.
Roger has been kicked to the curb in more ways than one, he attempts a comeback.
Faye kicks Don to the curb, he comes back with Megan, and then Faye herself.
The business is beat down at the end, but Don personally is making a comeback in now previously having an empty fishbowl, now he has too many fish.
Pete and Peggy have a parallel in that they're being fought over. Peggy fought over with the new guard and the old guard, and Pete now with the smarmy guy vs his own home of SCDP. Remember back when the one guy courted Betty to woo Don over, and Don told him on the phone, "bad move". The smarmy guy here tries the same thing with Pete. Showing up at the hospital and getting in with the in-laws to woo someone over for business?
Speaking of which we saw for the first time Roger in a light colored suit. Also, Roger yet again dealt with the immediate or the metaphor of death through a lense of sex, which is a whole other tangent we could go on with Roger. But Roger has felt death, yet again, here with the Lucky Strike thing. Also Roger has now been dealt another form of death through the end of Joan. Many things regarding Roger, we can say, it's over. Like Blankenship dying... the bell is tolling.
But in the end....
Don fights with the agency, clients, and fights with the blond who to him is home-like.
But, he finds sanctuary, a certain and simple and different kind of home, in the brunette.
Isn't this exact struggle what really is home for Don, his seemingly eternal search for home; yet...the struggle itself which is home?
Home with the blond, but sanctuary with the brunette. Do we men want home, or sanctuary? Or do we want both. But wait a minute...aren't they both supposed to be one in the same? Maybe, sometimes the real answer is...no. (que your booooing now)
Or is this one of the greater themes of Mad Men?
Home and sanctuary: are they synonymous, or actually in real life and marriage, mutually exclusive?
I know, Booo right? But MM makes you ask these questions...
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