Interesting episode, I really liked it. Great dialogue.
My favorite dialogue was between Trudy and Don, who I don't think we've seen speak together before, where Trudy knows his b.s. and totally takes charge. It's like yet again (remember when they recruited Pete for the job Trudy was in the other room listening and understanding better than Pete what the deal was) Trudy is smarter than Pete about his own life.
That brings us to Pete, or shall we say, the beating of Pete Campbell. He got beat up all around. That's what I think the fight scene was about, the symbolic culmination of the beating he took all episode.
Begin with the girl in traffic school. She ends up going a different direction. Pete, like Don last year, is starting to get old. I think that's what he and the party girl later on was about, Pete combating that.
People combating things ran through this episode. Cosgrove was in combat over his writing v personal life v the office, and Layne was in combat between the office, the account and trying to close the deal, and of course literal combat with Pete.
There was more Mad Men parallel action going, in there was 2 business dinners going on between Layne and Jaguar and the Campbell's dinner party which for Pete was his own function of a business dinner in his own way.
We saw Don last week dreaming of another woman, beginning his first inclination of discontentment with his new life he thinks he loves, and now we saw him going opposite of Megan again, in that he's out in the burbs fixing the sink. That motif is more of his Betty life than his new life.
I think Cosgrove's story was about the general idea of being able to have the power to make decisions, which is one thing the Pete Campbell character has always had an issue with. He's always been good at his job but wants the power and is prone to sabotage (turning Don in to Cooper season1) when he's had enough. Hence the rifle idea we always see with him. The rifle has often been in the background with the Pete character and they now even talked about it this episode.
Pete is still in the process of becoming Don, this episode exploring the idea of being the kingpin of the boardroom and bedroom. Today's Pete is yesterday's Don in this episode, at least in attempt. He failed in some regards, but that's because he's not and will never be Don.
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Interesting episode, I really liked it. Great dialogue.
My favorite dialogue was between Trudy and Don, who I don't think we've seen speak together before, where Trudy knows his b.s. and totally takes charge. It's like yet again (remember when they recruited Pete for the job Trudy was in the other room listening and understanding better than Pete what the deal was) Trudy is smarter than Pete about his own life.
That brings us to Pete, or shall we say, the beating of Pete Campbell. He got beat up all around. That's what I think the fight scene was about, the symbolic culmination of the beating he took all episode.
Begin with the girl in traffic school. She ends up going a different direction. Pete, like Don last year, is starting to get old. I think that's what he and the party girl later on was about, Pete combating that.
People combating things ran through this episode. Cosgrove was in combat over his writing v personal life v the office, and Layne was in combat between the office, the account and trying to close the deal, and of course literal combat with Pete.
There was more Mad Men parallel action going, in there was 2 business dinners going on between Layne and Jaguar and the Campbell's dinner party which for Pete was his own function of a business dinner in his own way.
We saw Don last week dreaming of another woman, beginning his first inclination of discontentment with his new life he thinks he loves, and now we saw him going opposite of Megan again, in that he's out in the burbs fixing the sink. That motif is more of his Betty life than his new life.
I think Cosgrove's story was about the general idea of being able to have the power to make decisions, which is one thing the Pete Campbell character has always had an issue with. He's always been good at his job but wants the power and is prone to sabotage (turning Don in to Cooper season1) when he's had enough. Hence the rifle idea we always see with him. The rifle has often been in the background with the Pete character and they now even talked about it this episode.
Pete is still in the process of becoming Don, this episode exploring the idea of being the kingpin of the boardroom and bedroom. Today's Pete is yesterday's Don in this episode, at least in attempt. He failed in some regards, but that's because he's not and will never be Don.
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