So this episode seemed to be about the idea of one-upsmanship. That idea is sometimes one the initial basis of competition. There was competition all over here.
You had one-upsmanship with Betty and Don. Sometimes warring couples get involved with competition just for the sake of it. So Betty unprovoked tried what she did in one-upping him. So Don, being The Don, one-upped her right back. That's Draper for you.
Then you have Don who is also The Don in the boardroom, this time picking a competition with Ginsberg, and winning it. I thought it was interesting at first, how to me anyway Don looked old. It was just this way about him in a real quick moment, he looked like he felt old in that office.
So he meanders into the newest young gun, and out of nowhere, just for himself, chooses to pick a competition with him. In doing so in the endgame, he ends up one-upping his competition by leaving said competition's pitch in the car. One-upped by The Don.
That worms into the usual Mad Men idea of parallels, this time in the idea of doing things for one's self.
You had the dialogues both of Henry/Betty and Roger/Peggy, both centering on the idea of one's self. Henry talking about how he bet on the wrong horse. Betting is self involved even if he is dalking about a metaphor about jumping ship: jumping ship and accidental comparison to Betty's prior life.
And if you listen to Betty's response, it's l;ke she's talking to herself.
Then you have the dialogue between Roger and Peggy. He tells her, you're only out for yourself in dealing with her. Also the line, every man for himself that's how it is.
Betty initially waling through Don's apartment, her purse hits the lamp but she doesn't care, she completely doesn't react.
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So this episode seemed to be about the idea of one-upsmanship. That idea is sometimes one the initial basis of competition. There was competition all over here.
You had one-upsmanship with Betty and Don. Sometimes warring couples get involved with competition just for the sake of it. So Betty unprovoked tried what she did in one-upping him. So Don, being The Don, one-upped her right back. That's Draper for you.
Then you have Don who is also The Don in the boardroom, this time picking a competition with Ginsberg, and winning it. I thought it was interesting at first, how to me anyway Don looked old. It was just this way about him in a real quick moment, he looked like he felt old in that office.
So he meanders into the newest young gun, and out of nowhere, just for himself, chooses to pick a competition with him. In doing so in the endgame, he ends up one-upping his competition by leaving said competition's pitch in the car. One-upped by The Don.
That worms into the usual Mad Men idea of parallels, this time in the idea of doing things for one's self.
You had the dialogues both of Henry/Betty and Roger/Peggy, both centering on the idea of one's self. Henry talking about how he bet on the wrong horse. Betting is self involved even if he is dalking about a metaphor about jumping ship: jumping ship and accidental comparison to Betty's prior life.
And if you listen to Betty's response, it's l;ke she's talking to herself.
Then you have the dialogue between Roger and Peggy. He tells her, you're only out for yourself in dealing with her. Also the line, every man for himself that's how it is.
Betty initially waling through Don's apartment, her purse hits the lamp but she doesn't care, she completely doesn't react.
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