Ok we all got the whole idea of the family motif: and all already know the lack of which has shaped Don and seems to drive something inward in him etc. But now it's happening to others as well, almost like they're catching up to him in a chase for misery.
He's losing his current version of family in Megan just heading back to Cali, then seeking one with Peggy and Pete I guess in a harkening back to season one as the way things used to be. I had said back in episode 4 a way to sum it up is "the future ain't what it used to be". And many people in the face of that will do one thing, go back home again, because in theory anyway you're always supposed to be able to go back home again and start over.
Bob Benson is doing his thing affecting the agency, now this crazy idea of Harry Crane being a partner, plus the countdown till the ouster of Don with all the infighting, everything keeps changing. The decade motif. So what do you do when you feel on a losing end in life? Go back home again.
It started with those three in terms of the office, maybe the end of this episode is a foreshadowing of the end of the series in terms of the office dynamic? I don't know.
Pete was apparently the patented Mad Men mirroring storyline in that his family is basically gone from him with not just Trudy but also his child basically gone if you will. And like Don regarding Megan his new version of family in Bonnie is on a plane as well, great to have them on the same plane in a way uniting Pete and Don. So Pete like Don finds in the end the office family. That whole search for a family motif, spinning around and around "looking for a place where we know we are loved" etc.
Peggy spoke of turning 30, alluding to being an adult etc. With your family you grow up enemies in youth then together as adults. We've seen the childhood, adolescence and now adulthood of Sterling Cooper, here the three of them kids who fought but who now eat together like their own version of the fictional family invented for the next pitch when things all around are going downhill.
Is this where the next half season is going regarding the office dynamic?
(and as the previews for next week rolled, "the mid-season finale" term was apparently coined. Really? Mid-season finale. Wonderful, let's hope that's actually not something else Mad Men invented to change television)
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Ok we all got the whole idea of the family motif: and all already know the lack of which has shaped Don and seems to drive something inward in him etc. But now it's happening to others as well, almost like they're catching up to him in a chase for misery.
He's losing his current version of family in Megan just heading back to Cali, then seeking one with Peggy and Pete I guess in a harkening back to season one as the way things used to be. I had said back in episode 4 a way to sum it up is "the future ain't what it used to be". And many people in the face of that will do one thing, go back home again, because in theory anyway you're always supposed to be able to go back home again and start over.
Bob Benson is doing his thing affecting the agency, now this crazy idea of Harry Crane being a partner, plus the countdown till the ouster of Don with all the infighting, everything keeps changing. The decade motif. So what do you do when you feel on a losing end in life? Go back home again.
It started with those three in terms of the office, maybe the end of this episode is a foreshadowing of the end of the series in terms of the office dynamic? I don't know.
Pete was apparently the patented Mad Men mirroring storyline in that his family is basically gone from him with not just Trudy but also his child basically gone if you will. And like Don regarding Megan his new version of family in Bonnie is on a plane as well, great to have them on the same plane in a way uniting Pete and Don. So Pete like Don finds in the end the office family. That whole search for a family motif, spinning around and around "looking for a place where we know we are loved" etc.
Peggy spoke of turning 30, alluding to being an adult etc. With your family you grow up enemies in youth then together as adults. We've seen the childhood, adolescence and now adulthood of Sterling Cooper, here the three of them kids who fought but who now eat together like their own version of the fictional family invented for the next pitch when things all around are going downhill.
Is this where the next half season is going regarding the office dynamic?
(and as the previews for next week rolled, "the mid-season finale" term was apparently coined. Really? Mid-season finale. Wonderful, let's hope that's actually not something else Mad Men invented to change television)
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