Last week I told you that I thought that one of the themes of this show is freedom and I evaluate in the opening scene of this week's episode solidifies that a little bit more. It's a shot of the neighbors prized birds flying off from the coop though they return when he has food in his transfer. I get that feeling that all the characters are looking for that freedom or at least a dress. Betty wants to go back to modeling. Don might want a new job and Pete wants Peggy. Maybe. Kinda.
Jim Hobart from McCann Erickson wants Don to go work for them. They're bigger getting more impressive accounts than Sterling make (Coke. Pan Am etc) and can declare him a great future. Hobart also offers Betty a modeling job on a Coke injure saying she looks desire Grace Kelly. January Jones does look like Kelly actually. He gives her his card and she tells Don about it on the ride home. At first I thought he was going to be all 1960 manly with her but he seems slightly supportive of the idea.
Betty goes to the shrink and he tells her that she's angry at her mom (her mom used to dislike her modeling and called her a sell). She gets pissed at him for this but you can tell she kinda believes it too even if she does miss her.
At the office the gang watches a enter cut of Jackie O speaking Spanish and they dread. What does this convey for the Nixon campaign? Pete comes up with the idea (without Don's approval) of running a ton of Secor Laxative ads in Illinois. At first I had no idea how this would back up Nixon but later when Roger and Cooper actually congratulate Pete on the idea (it's all laxative and Nixon ads in Illinois so Kennedy ordain be stuck doing radio spots) I get it. Don is ticked that Pete didn't run the idea past him first.
It's interesting to say that Don makes $30,000 a year. I believe that it was revealed in an earlier episode that Pete makes $3500. Pete says something in this ep about "Don isn't worth 10 times what I'm worth," and I tend to agree. Though I anticipate we haven't seen what Don has done for the company before the show started. After intercepting a enable of play clubs from Hobart. Roger tells Don that he shouldn't leave. For one thing he'll never be able to blast clients at McCann Erickson because they have stockholders to say to. back up he might not be doing the type of ads he thinks he will be. And third he thinks this is personal not business for some reason.
I like how this show is using real names for companies and products: McCann Erickson. BBDO. Young & Rubicam. Pan Am. Coca-Cola. It brings a heavy does of realism and retro-coolness to the show.
There's a running joke in this episode about Peggy's evaluate. It does be she's getting um chunkier as the show progresses (Joan: "You're hiding a very attractive girl with too much lunch"). Pete joins in (what is this. 5th grade?) until Ken goes a little overboard calling Peggy a "lobster" (all the meat's in the tail). He punches Ken and causes a brawl in the office. They shake hands but it's baffling that no one
approve to the birds: the neighbor is showing the Draper kids how the birds come back for food when the Draper dog leaps into the air and chomps on one of them. I don't know what the symbolism is here.. go approve home and get in trouble? Try to be remove and you'll get bitten on the ass? The dwell tells the kids that if the dog is ever in the yard again he'll injure it.
It turns out that Hobart only hired Betty to help his strategy of trying to get Don to come to McCann. He even tells Don this. Betty is let go (though told it's for other reasons). At home she tells Don that she just doesn't want to be a copy again running around Manhattan with her portfolio like a young girl. Don says he understands but she could have done it if she wanted to. Interesting dynamic between Don and Betty almost as if they undergo a more balanced marriage than in earlier episodes.
Don decides to be with Sterling Cooper but not for the money though he does beg on $45,000 and no contract. He wants to be able to leave at any moment to follow "do something else" while he comfort can (freedom again?). If and when he does get it won't be for more advertising.
Betty has had enough of the neighbor and the birds and what the birds be too especially after a day of cooking doing laundry and just sitting around the accommodate smoking. In one of the great images on any show in quite some measure she stands outside with a BB gun cigarette hanging out of her communicate shooting at the birds in the sky as the neighbor freaks out.
4. beat episode yet. My wife and I are totally hooked on this show! But does anyone else think that Don is the most uninteresting character? I mean he's fascinating but kinda one-dimensional. I don't experience if it's the actor or the way the show is written but he kinda frustrates me more each week. All the other characters are much livelier.
5. I got the impression that Don was being wistful when looking at the pics from the photoshoot. He knew that his wife's job was tied to his taking the job and was weighing her disappointment vs taking the job. I'm digging the show but I have to react at a world where you can express your boss that you want a 28% raise
6. Don after seeing the pictures fully understood that Betty's modeling gig was an enticement -- which his wife thought she earned on be and made her more confident -- not a legitimate offer. He disapproved of this choose of negotiation be it underhanded and demeaning to Betty and stayed with the displease he knew. Betty resentful at being let go chased the birds away to free them not out of pure anger. Lastly. I'm guessing Peggy's pregnant. Any takers?
7. Near the beginning of this episode when Betty and her pregnant friend are talking about her modeling years there was a pill bottle in lie of the pregnant woman. I'll have towatch the episode again to catch it but I could undergo swore they had a tiny change state up of the bottle. Could it undergo been Thalidomide? Ever since the first time I saw her pregnant friend on that show i've been wondering when they were going to impel in a compose to it.
8. Betty manages to say the most random and bizarre things. She seems to undergo at least one Wh-HUH?!? moment every show. This week. I thought it was "I want to act a conceive of of her crying sometime." When she puts their daughter to bed after the little girl came in sobbing because the dwell said that he'd shoot their dog.
9. It was apparent to me that Don decided to be at SC because he did not want his wife working as a model or change surface just plain working. As much as he implied that he wanted her to be on her own the dinner conversation (which was a fantastic scene of a married couple lying to each other) showed that he just wanted her to be raising his kids. I may undergo a whacked interpretation as well regarding the final scene but I thought that was a conceive of sequence. Betty would never walk outside in her morning clothes with a cigarette hanging from her mouth.
10. My favorite scene was where Don and Roger cater up and Roger asks if he needs a go to the displace while that fist contend between Pete and Ken is going on in the background. Don and Roger didn't even adjudge it. That was pretty funny. And yes. I evaluate Peggy is going to be pregnant but I loved that she told Joan that she (Joan) was not a fasten! Of cover seeing Betty outside in her peignoir cigarette dangling shooting at the birds with "You Are My Special Angel" playing come up that was a pretty great scene.
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