This was an odd one, you have to watch it a couple of times. The theme seemed to be the idea of fear.
The title of the episode was "Mystery Date." So you had the Mystery Date commercial Sally was watching. Then you had the whole motif of the murders. You have this mystery man w ho shows up and ends up not what you'd think. You had Ginsberg's Cinderella pitch which is basically about a mystery man, and ominous overtones regarding that. And you had Don's "mystery date" so to speak, which leads to "murder."
You had Mad Men once again doing something in triplicate in an episode: with the murders, the girl who hid under the bed, you had Don hide the girl under the bed, and Sally hiding under the couch.
And speaking of Don, pushing her under the bed, it ended with the visual motif of her leg, foot, shoe out from under the bed reminding of us Cinderella and the slipper.
You have there Don's fear, his fear of the girl in general. In parallel you have Joan's own fear regarding Dr. G. What both have in common is that they both did something about it, killing the fear.
You also have Don's new secretary scared to go home hiding in the office.
And also with hiding, you have Henry's mother hiding from the fear behind a big knife and pills and a gain Sally under the couch.
Going back to Joan, when Dr. G first shows up, notice how he didn't come inside his own house? Instead they had him ring the doorbell, the handsome man in uniform, like the whole mystery date motif? Couple that with at the end where Joan tells him he's not a good man; again the mystery date ominous motif coming full circle with the Dr. G character.
The accordion scene was great, going back to reminding us of the impending negativity for lack of a better word that is about to become Joan's life, back in season 3 where she was entertaining in "My Old Kentucky Home" episode.
And back to Ginsberg's Cinderella pitch, they went to the executives rather than the norm. Why?
This was a tricky one, I liked the episode once the theme started kicking in, but it's tricky because there wasn't a whole lot of advancement. You had a little with Mohawk, some advancement of the Ginsberg and Don's secretary characters, and of course a major advancement in Joan. I can't figure the whole greater point of the mystery date/fear motif. Maybe this was foreshadowing setting us up for something hopefully?...
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This was an odd one, you have to watch it a couple of times. The theme seemed to be the idea of fear.
The title of the episode was "Mystery Date." So you had the Mystery Date commercial Sally was watching. Then you had the whole motif of the murders. You have this mystery man w ho shows up and ends up not what you'd think. You had Ginsberg's Cinderella pitch which is basically about a mystery man, and ominous overtones regarding that. And you had Don's "mystery date" so to speak, which leads to "murder."
You had Mad Men once again doing something in triplicate in an episode: with the murders, the girl who hid under the bed, you had Don hide the girl under the bed, and Sally hiding under the couch.
And speaking of Don, pushing her under the bed, it ended with the visual motif of her leg, foot, shoe out from under the bed reminding of us Cinderella and the slipper.
You have there Don's fear, his fear of the girl in general. In parallel you have Joan's own fear regarding Dr. G. What both have in common is that they both did something about it, killing the fear.
You also have Don's new secretary scared to go home hiding in the office.
And also with hiding, you have Henry's mother hiding from the fear behind a big knife and pills and a gain Sally under the couch.
Going back to Joan, when Dr. G first shows up, notice how he didn't come inside his own house? Instead they had him ring the doorbell, the handsome man in uniform, like the whole mystery date motif? Couple that with at the end where Joan tells him he's not a good man; again the mystery date ominous motif coming full circle with the Dr. G character.
The accordion scene was great, going back to reminding us of the impending negativity for lack of a better word that is about to become Joan's life, back in season 3 where she was entertaining in "My Old Kentucky Home" episode.
And back to Ginsberg's Cinderella pitch, they went to the executives rather than the norm. Why?
This was a tricky one, I liked the episode once the theme started kicking in, but it's tricky because there wasn't a whole lot of advancement. You had a little with Mohawk, some advancement of the Ginsberg and Don's secretary characters, and of course a major advancement in Joan. I can't figure the whole greater point of the mystery date/fear motif. Maybe this was foreshadowing setting us up for something hopefully?...
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