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Throwing the money in Peggy’s face was some rude shit, but it’s almost like Draper just wants Peggy to step up and just demand shit instead of pandering around it, he knows she’s earned it, she just needs to step up and take it. He seems genuinely happy with her when he thinks she’s coming into demand a raise…
The bit where Ginsberg pitches the Jaguar line and he just cracks a smile at the brilliance of it…
That scene with Joan…damn.
"You’re one of the good ones, aren’t you?"
Doesn’t acknowledge it, doesn’t blink.
“Do you understand what I’m saying to you?”
What a fucking badass.
Fucking great scenes with Joan, the intercutting with the sales pitch and Joan’s encounter was great, truly heartbreaking when they revealed the time-sequencing bit and you find out she had already gone through with it. The look he gives her in the partner’s meeting…damn.
The whole final scene with Peggy…his sheer amusement at first when Peggy’s thanking him, the flash of rage when she tells him where she’s going as he realizes she’s really leaving. Doesn’t throw it in her face, doesn’t try to destroy her emotionally…just gently takes her hand and kisses it with reverence, and it tells her everything she means to him in one gesture and nearly cracks her resolve. That is some great character work, great storytelling.
Lane shoulda punched Pete, looked like he was ready to, really enjoy the scenes they’ve done with Joan and Lane this season too. Best episode since the Lane Pete fight. [/details]
i “like” how they gave you a false sense of hope that fate intervened when the car doesn’t start…but nope, mad men keeping it real. good ass episode and the season finale looks interesting.
Honestly its kinda retarded that he offed himself over that. As soon as I saw him lookin out dat window i knew he was going to do it too. It was enough to just have him fired and don letting him go with his dignity, now he has left with none, his poor wife.
Ultimately though, it was his pride that fucked him. He should have just gone to the partners and explained his situation or to Don personally if he thought he was such an understanding guy. He was right, that kind of money probably meant very little to Don, but it wasn’t the money that fucked him. It was hi dishonesty. Being dishonest on that level is not a forgivable offense in a struggling business.
That conversation with Don showed how he could have easily gotten the money just by asking. Don actually liked Lane but he can’t go around cashing cheques like that.
Exactly. He fucked himself the way he did it. He’s really dumb because he even told Don he thought he would understand or something, meaning he knew what kind of man Don was…
Interesting that Don suggests that Lane pull a Don Draper, and interesting that Lane was unwilling or unable.
Interesting that this season, which has foreshadowed death on a very nonspecific level since episode one, foreshadowed Lane’s death several times (one of which is hysterical in a very dark way) before ultimately settling on a quietly presented offscreen death.
Interesting that this life-and-death drama is contrasted (compared?) to the small, inevitable drama of a girl and her first period.
Interesting that everything in this show pays off in unexpected ways, right down to Roger’s remark at the beginning of the season about how SCDP’s windows don’t open.
Interesting that Megan is increasingly shoveled into the role of an unwilling handler of others’ messes, while glimmers of the old Don-at-work begin to reemerge.
Don can buy a luxury car on a whim, Roger can buy an upscale apartment on a whim, so obviously both of them could have loaned Lane some money, but on top of that couldn’t he have just gone to the bank?
Also, I hate that fucking kid, Sally too. Both of them just have these awkward, mechanical conversations with each other that I can’t imagine happening in real life. Then again 13/14 is an awkward age to be at anyway, I just think the entire subplot of their relationship adds nothing to the show.
i hate that kid, don’t hate sally.
what i hate most about him is that he’s kind of awkward and his acting skills are pretty wooden, and he’s obviously matt weiner’s relative (I think he’s the dude’s son) so of course he’s getting screen time
Yeah the Glen kid is creepy, did like how Sally clocked Don’s mood before Megan did, “Look at him, he just wants to work, he’s got big meeting tomorrow, he’ll be miserable”
Ken had a good scene with Roger, gets some power, gets to deal with it without Pete.
Poor Lane. Wonder if Don will tell the other partners about what happened