Monday, April 29, 2013

MAD MEN
Season 6
Episode 5
 


1 comment:

Greg said...

This season is unfolding in a lot of ways to be about how there's a lot of filth, a lot of dirt in life.

We saw another aspect of the darkness of death, here, of profiteering through death. That was an interesting viewpoint. We had ever self absorbed Harry always concerned with his own well being. Henry looking to move up in the midst of a tragic time. The insurance guy who really has his own self believing he's legitimate. Fake Abe as Peggy said having the time of his life. Then the thing with the apartment offer. And I actually felt Pete was engaged not in profiteering but a sort in unintentional usery. It's like he's really frustrated over losing Trudy, Trudy rejecting him in what is a time of need and not needing him. I think he used a time of tragedy to be a door to open his own frustration, to let out his own frustration. People do that. It's not that he what he initially felt was phony, remember he was affected in the Kennedy episode, but I think his ranting has a genesis more about his own self.

I'm interested in what people have to say about Bobby and the wallpaper. I see like probably everyone else the idea of two sides not matching up but I also thought maybe it's also of the idea of that rich house now having a growing visual look of decay and analogies that can be drawn from that.

The episode was called The Flood, and Ginsburg's dad mentioned that, about the ark and two by two etc in devestation. Here in this flood, not many in the city walked two by two in the event of devestation and the decay got worse.

And I liked Betty not allowing them to watch tv, "you never know what they're going to show". Remember she witnessed the Oswald execution live.

Then another evolution of Don. That was a great near-soliloquy we had from Don. I still consider it soliloquy because he was really talking to himself more than Megan. Bobby up until now has been in a daze, and seems to have awakened and now has a mind and his own soul being born in this world. In it's simplest, Don actually felt something. Don was affected by his child being affected. Starting with the last line of episode 1 this season, Don is growng closer to experiencing a soul.

And I think what's most important in this exploration of Don is that even though this is not typical Don, it's occuring in a typical Don way. All of society is being affected. Don is being affected but not directly by the event that occurred outside his own self; he's affected in his own way, affected within and of, as usual, his own self in his own way. That's what's typical Don.