Mad Men 4.02 -- running commentary
Now the Little Lady is gone, and I have slept, I can finally watch last Sunday's TV!
- Glen the incipient creep is back! And he goes for Sallie now, who behaves exactly like a mini-Betty. I think this is the first time the kids got dialogue all by themselves with no grown-up present, too.
- Don is doing his own typing? I didn't know men in his position did, at all, back then. Unless they actually wrote copy, but an exec like him no longer would?
- Eeeep Freddy the drunk -- is business really booming so much they need to hire him??
- Why is Don tempting him with drink on purpose? Not even taking a hint from Roger? He wants the account, but Freddy in the gutter?
- Ahhhh the beginnings of modern market research. With lots of things that are acutely painful for some of the people present.
- Joan is really no longer just office manager if she's on that panel.
- Yep they are stealing Freddy's client. Why?
- Heeee Pryce sounds like my she-boss. She keeps the overhead down at my slavery nagging just like that.
- Heeeee somebody speechifying against Medicare back on the cusp of 1965...
- What the FUCK are Glen and that other boy doing????
- Why do they still think Lee Garner jr. wants girls? After all, he got Sal fired for, erm, not doing what he wanted. Well, perhaps he's some kind of omnivore?
- This is the woman to give Don the kind of intellectual challenge he likes in his flings! Totally ahead of her time, in style, work, attitude, methodology...
- The younger staff think Don pathetic, the way he drinks and doesn't eat and is all emo...
- And now he goes and bones his own secretary or what?? WTF is that man thinking? WTF is that man thinking with??
- He lives on drink, cigarettes, sex, and emo feelings.
- Freddy, however, seems to be stealing Peggy's office (after she got his after he was fired from old Sterling Cooper).
- She seriously hoped to be the next Jane? Come on, you poor deluded thing...