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Sep. 6th, 2010 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
switchbladesis I have a larger entry planned, but last night's Mad Men deserves its own entry-mostly because this will be chock full of spoilers. If you need a good download link, PM me, otherwise, you've been warned:
You can tell an episode is amazing when it takes you a while to remember that Burt Cooper has no balls. For once, Roger was overshadowed in an episode-that's how good it was.
Awesome moments:
*The two different reactions to being 26: you've accomplished so much vs. don't worry, you aren't too old yet
*Pete briefly looking panicked when he say Trudy and Peggy walk out of the bathroom together.
*Trudy's "I want a rare steak and to watch those two men pound each other!", and talking about how much she loved blood sports as a child while putting on her dainty little gloves. Oh, Trudy.
*Peggy blowing up at Don. Wow, that was cathartic for me, and I was just watching it.
*Peggy pausing for a second before choosing to carry Don into the men's room.
*Duck's 'shut up, let me concentrate' when he's trying to take a dump for Don. . . in Roger's white office.
*Peggy asking Don how long he's going to keep this up-someone acknowledging that he's a mess, and trying to do something about it!
*Don pushing for a reason to be needed in California-but too late, and being rebuffed by Stephanie. It rang true to me-both Don's need to do *something* about this death, and Stephanie telegraphing that this was just one of many phone calls she's had to make to deliver the news.
*"She's in a better place"/"That's what they say" It doesn't look like much on the screen, but Jon Hamm's delivery nearly broke me.
*Don breaking down into tears-and Peggy's wide eyed reaction to it. When they cut to her stairing after he hung up the phone, I was trying to piece together his side of the conversation-trying to figure out how much Peggy would be able to figure out--the tears startled me.
*The little handhold at the end-Don acknowledging that something happened, and thanking Peggy for it-in his own way. I'm taking it in a non-sexual way, just for my own piece of mind.
*Don didn't try to pick anyone up this episode! It was a nice change of pace.
Most of all, I'm hoping that this is a genuine turning point of Don. He's always been an asshole, but it's somehow more painful to watch him be sloppy. But I'm still worried about that last scene, where Peggy is, again, just agreeing with Don because that's what Don wants, and Don being able to escape the same sort of criticism he was leveling earlier in the show because he's the boss.
You can tell an episode is amazing when it takes you a while to remember that Burt Cooper has no balls. For once, Roger was overshadowed in an episode-that's how good it was.
Awesome moments:
*The two different reactions to being 26: you've accomplished so much vs. don't worry, you aren't too old yet
*Pete briefly looking panicked when he say Trudy and Peggy walk out of the bathroom together.
*Trudy's "I want a rare steak and to watch those two men pound each other!", and talking about how much she loved blood sports as a child while putting on her dainty little gloves. Oh, Trudy.
*Peggy blowing up at Don. Wow, that was cathartic for me, and I was just watching it.
*Peggy pausing for a second before choosing to carry Don into the men's room.
*Duck's 'shut up, let me concentrate' when he's trying to take a dump for Don. . . in Roger's white office.
*Peggy asking Don how long he's going to keep this up-someone acknowledging that he's a mess, and trying to do something about it!
*Don pushing for a reason to be needed in California-but too late, and being rebuffed by Stephanie. It rang true to me-both Don's need to do *something* about this death, and Stephanie telegraphing that this was just one of many phone calls she's had to make to deliver the news.
*"She's in a better place"/"That's what they say" It doesn't look like much on the screen, but Jon Hamm's delivery nearly broke me.
*Don breaking down into tears-and Peggy's wide eyed reaction to it. When they cut to her stairing after he hung up the phone, I was trying to piece together his side of the conversation-trying to figure out how much Peggy would be able to figure out--the tears startled me.
*The little handhold at the end-Don acknowledging that something happened, and thanking Peggy for it-in his own way. I'm taking it in a non-sexual way, just for my own piece of mind.
*Don didn't try to pick anyone up this episode! It was a nice change of pace.
Most of all, I'm hoping that this is a genuine turning point of Don. He's always been an asshole, but it's somehow more painful to watch him be sloppy. But I'm still worried about that last scene, where Peggy is, again, just agreeing with Don because that's what Don wants, and Don being able to escape the same sort of criticism he was leveling earlier in the show because he's the boss.