"Who is Don Draper?" Were the first words spoken in the season premiere today on "Mad Men". Proceeding from this episode, at least, my score would have been reluctant: "Well, he sort of jerk.This November, 1964. Last year, the country has undergone tremendous upheaval: The Beatles had landed, the Vietnam War continues, and the Civil Rights Act was signed into law. Of course there were some at least of seismic shifts in the fictional world of "Mad Men". It was almost a year with Don agreed to give Betty a divorce and start a new agency. Sterling Sterling Cooper Cooper now Draper Price, "scrappy upstart" with a dazzling cool, if somewhat claustrophobic offices.
Am I the only one who screamed like a little camera cooked around the new office space is replete with bright white floors, the main color of the couches and slick new logo? It was the moment when it became a bit shy: the writers know that we would like to see that the furniture, and all were very pleased.
But Sterling Cooper Draper Price was in a cool, they lost in space, not to mention functional furniture. The space visually dazzling, but claustrophobic. There are no negotiations, and employees to lie on the second floor, in order to impress clients. I am curious to see how closely affect the dynamics of service.
Topography in the Sterling Cooper made the power structure is very clear: women, on average, open space, man on the side, guardians of their private turf. Will Don Roger and Bert will be able to own their power, so completely without cavernous offices in which to sequester yourself? I think not.
Peggy seems she has changed over the last year. Of course, her new haircut volume and smart new wardrobe, but the most striking of all is the change of personality. Peggy more active for many years, but this was something completely different. Previously, awkward, Peggy is now bold, effusive quite fresh.
She herself in a position of authority, telling her cute new employee, Joey (Matt Long), to get her pictures in an hour. She dispatches him flirtatious "chop, Joy". Her obedient friend, Mark, who whipped enough to go with her to the apartment Don on Thanksgiving Day. She even became a smoker (cigarettes, not marijuana).Other staff members have changed less. Pete is still fawning schmoozer; Roger still spouts dubious one-liners with alarming frequency (although even for Roger, "today's Come turkey day, maybe you can stuff it was incredibly crude) Joan is the glue that holds the agency together, although now she does it out of his office (with Joanne Harris "at the door).
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Although Don hates description, Pete is right when he says Sterling Cooper Draper Price "scrappy upstart." The new body was impressed, especially with Don Glo film coating business, but they are dependent on one or two high-value customers. So when Dawn botches an interview with Advertising Age, he thinks he's being humble, but comes from, according to Roger as "dick" and the agency loses Jai lai, they suddenly find themselves in what Lane calls "untenably unsafe position.
" pressure on-Don to look Jantzen, but they do not go for his characteristic campaign proposal ("It is well constructed, we can not show you the second floor"). Instead of coolly dismissed - as "Dawn 1963" may have done - "Dawn 1964" totally freaks.
People at Jantzen not only people that Don tried but failed, to care. Currently, Don comes home housekeeper and a dish of cold pork chops. He now lives in the dark, gray apartment on the sixth and Waverly, just outside of the legendary old Waverly Theater, where I guess he spends a good amount of his time. Roger set it on a blind date with Bethany (Anna Camp), a friend of Jane's and, as Roger said with obvious glee, a former member of the team Mount Holoyoke gymnastics.
For lunch chicken Kiev Lagrange Jimmy Don dutifully listens to Bethany to surface observations over the murder of civil rights activists in Mississippi ("In a world so dark right now," she muses), and listening to her talk about her dress. Bethany is clearly meant as a kind of replacement for Betty.
If you have blond hair and women's college was not enough to convince you that there is that it works as a freelance opera, in other words, its purpose is to stand, wearing beautiful costumes and look beautiful. Sound familiar? Despite - or perhaps because of - Bethany resemblance to Betty, the date of mild success. Emboldened, Don tries to make moves, but was shot down.
It was disturbing to watch Don try so hard with the opposite sex. It seems that the unthinkable happened: Don Draper lost his charisma. And now at least, he did not object. Rather than spend Thanksgiving with Bethany Dawn decides to spend your vacation with a prostitute. Judging by her acquaintance with him, ahem, particularly fractures in bed, this is not the first time they were together. Implications quite clear: Don previously unattainable, but now he just damaged goods. It is also not very interested in having a relationship.
As toxic as his marriage to Betty was, it seems, something about her that all the demons of the Don in check. Now, when he lost his family, and is under tremendous pressure to keep the agency afloat, Don volatile, slightly damaged. Betty once said: "Sometimes I think I'll float away if Don is not holding me down, but instead seems to matter. Without his family, Don goes free.
We saw Don vicious receive up-remember when he called Betty 'whore'? "But today he was equally obnoxious, barking at everyone from Peggy his mistress. For Don, I suspect that someone has a family, even one filed with the lies and denial means a lot of it. Case in point: the most attractive point Don came when Sally and Bobby for a visit. Don promised Bobby that he would sew a button to it seems, something he has learned to do last year. sad when the episode when Don, Bobby sleeps on his hands, asks Sally to open the door to his former home, and she reaches for the key tied on a string around the neck. It was a small but critical details. Betty "knock his wife and three lovely children were an essential element in the illusion of Don Draper, now he must keep the visibility in the main on its own.We had to wait almost two-thirds of the way the episode today to meet the new Betty, now Mrs. Henry Francis. Last season I applaud Betty for standing up to Don, but I confess: I'm a huge hypocrite, and I'm sad to see her with anyone other than Don. It just does not feel, does not it? In a recent interview, Matthew Weiner, said:
"There's a sense of team writing about Betty that she was a woman who would know as little about yourself as possible," and I could not stop thinking about it today. Its growth is largely superficial: she got more hair, and now sports pink tweed suits and pearls fit for a woman married to a political operative (it looks very Joan Kennedy, is not it?) Otherwise, Betty is not developed and even transferred, as Don.
She continues to act in the children's way, as intentionally making Don wait until she and Henry are today, instead of being frank. Her identity is still tied to her husband, but now she got a new husband, 1, which literally stands on its side, and she Bickers with Don. Betty moved to her new husband, never batting an eyelash perfect, and Don stuck dating cheap imitation of his ex.
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Henry and Betty are frisky as teenagers but there are already some ominous clouds forming on the horizon. Something tells me this marriage is doomed, if Betty ends pregnant again (my God, let's hope not). As Don says: "Believe me, everyone thinks this is temporary.
" Henry hates his mother Betty, and, like almost everything else in America, not impressed with maternal skills Betty. Sally did not take divorce well, and perhaps the following example of her mother - began to play. On Thanksgiving Day dinner from her new step family, Sally spits out a sticky piece of sweet potato, and later that night, she tries to call Don from hallway phone.
Betty or do not know or care about the pain that Sally is undoubtedly experiencing; behavior Sally matters only so that he gets in the way of Betty. It appears that this mother-daughter relationship only become worse. Maybe Don will have to make some room for Sally's bachelor pad?
At the end of the episode, Don agrees to sit for an interview with Wall Street Journal. He is ready to play the role of daring creative genius, and he was self-aggrandizing narrative down pat. "Last year, our agency is currently swallowed whole," he says, for the first chords of "Tobacco Road" on the animals. "In a year later, we will take on two floors of the Time-Life". Don learned a hard lesson, and ready to play. The new strategy will benefit the Sterling Cooper Draper Price. But the lesson of Don in "public relations" and to help your personal life? Only time will tell.
Before you go, there were some notable omissions in this episode. Baby gene was nowhere to be found, the absence, it seemed to torment Don and only feeds my growing suspicion that something will go terribly wrong with a little Draper. Joan was very underutilized, although I'm sure we'll see more of her in the coming weeks. And we do not know what happened to any of the former staff Stirling Cooper, although I suspect that we'll hear about that too.
Thus, Showtrackers, what do you think? Is Don is not one, not Betty, and children, or is it just temporary rut? Sully will move with his father? Don will blow Betty from home? And will the agency to find a way out "untenably unsafe position"?
