Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
This is what I've been waiting for -- they're finally telling us what might happen to these characters before we have to say goodbye to them. The three-week misery parade leading up to this was getting to me.
So the McCann deal was too good to be true after all. As a reward for trying to save their little advertising agency, the people of SC&P get...to work in advertising. Yippee. I draw parallels to WKRP here -- the station slowly got better over the years, but the little family of employees started resisting change when they started doing TOO well. They'd rather keep their family together than find bigger success separately. (Actually, WKRP co-opted that from Mary Tyler Moore, but still.) It's not so lovey-dovey with the Mad Men crew, but they certainly are ambivalent about being smaller fish in a bigger pond.
Best line of the season so far goes to Pete, who was friggin' awesome all episode: "The king ordered it!" I await observations from Wacky on the use of the ancient Campbell-MacDonald feud in an American TV show.
Looks like we said goodbye to Ken Cosgrove for good. "I feel like a spy." "You look like one!"
I swear I thought Roger was going to drop dead from another heart attack after kissing Don goodbye. Thankfully he didn't.
Don, forget the damn waitress. Let her go. That was a creepy storyline. Hope we never find out what happened to her.
Joan gets fucked over again. At least she's rich this time to soften the blow. But is Captain Pike Mr. Right? I missed that phone conversation scene, I'll have to watch it again. Does he suddenly not mind her baggage now?
Peggy with the kids was both funny and heartbreaking. It was nice that big brother Stan was there for her. But I wish the internet shippers would give up on those two getting together. She's already seen him naked, and she still keeps rejecting him. She loves him as a friend, alright girls? But I liked her line, "Stay on the phone with me." which was a callback to their marathon phone sessions when she was at CGC. That was sweet.
And then there's Harry, still being Harry. He'll probably end up running McCann someday.
This episode was directed by Jared Harris, better known as the late Lane Pryce. And he did a spectacular job. He got to see Pete in another fistfight, and he got to make another one of "those shots" of all the partners lined up side by side, this time at the McCann conference table. I hope he gets a nomination for it from somebody, somewhere.
So the McCann deal was too good to be true after all. As a reward for trying to save their little advertising agency, the people of SC&P get...to work in advertising. Yippee. I draw parallels to WKRP here -- the station slowly got better over the years, but the little family of employees started resisting change when they started doing TOO well. They'd rather keep their family together than find bigger success separately. (Actually, WKRP co-opted that from Mary Tyler Moore, but still.) It's not so lovey-dovey with the Mad Men crew, but they certainly are ambivalent about being smaller fish in a bigger pond.
Best line of the season so far goes to Pete, who was friggin' awesome all episode: "The king ordered it!" I await observations from Wacky on the use of the ancient Campbell-MacDonald feud in an American TV show.
Looks like we said goodbye to Ken Cosgrove for good. "I feel like a spy." "You look like one!"
I swear I thought Roger was going to drop dead from another heart attack after kissing Don goodbye. Thankfully he didn't.
Don, forget the damn waitress. Let her go. That was a creepy storyline. Hope we never find out what happened to her.
Joan gets fucked over again. At least she's rich this time to soften the blow. But is Captain Pike Mr. Right? I missed that phone conversation scene, I'll have to watch it again. Does he suddenly not mind her baggage now?
Peggy with the kids was both funny and heartbreaking. It was nice that big brother Stan was there for her. But I wish the internet shippers would give up on those two getting together. She's already seen him naked, and she still keeps rejecting him. She loves him as a friend, alright girls? But I liked her line, "Stay on the phone with me." which was a callback to their marathon phone sessions when she was at CGC. That was sweet.
And then there's Harry, still being Harry. He'll probably end up running McCann someday.
This episode was directed by Jared Harris, better known as the late Lane Pryce. And he did a spectacular job. He got to see Pete in another fistfight, and he got to make another one of "those shots" of all the partners lined up side by side, this time at the McCann conference table. I hope he gets a nomination for it from somebody, somewhere.
