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Roger Sterling (John Slattery) in a non-trippy moment. (Frank Ockenfels/AMC / April 23, 2012) |
Finally, he gives up and while driving home, looks over at the empty passenger seat and remembers when he and Megan were driving the kids home from a very different vacation: Disneyland, where the two officially fell in love.
Turns out Megan is back at the non-love shack and has put the chain on the lock. Don kicks it in (because he's Don) proceeds to chase Megan around the apartment and later tackles her to the living room floor. No make-up sex on the floor this time, which is sort of what I expected. This whole tackling scene had shades of Tony and Carmela's near domestic-violence squabbles on "The Sopranos."
"I thought I lost you," Don says, near tears. And, you guessed it, when they return to work the next day, they're all back to normal, exchanging loving glances.
I wonder how long this love-hate-love-orange sherbet Megan-Don fights will last this season before they go the way of Roger-Jane. I feel as though something drastic may have to happen to break these toxic two apart. In the meantime, it's awfully devastating to watch.
At the movies with Peggy: How does Peggy cope with her own tension-filled relationship? Go to the movies in the middle of the day, eat popcorn, get high in the theater and, um, pleasure a stranger.
Peggy Olson! You're doing drugs and drinking at work and acting, well, un Peggy-ish.
The episode actually begins with, you guessed it, a fight. 1966: The year no one on "Mad Men" is happy. Peggy's in the bedroom with journalist beau Abe Drexler, who is dissatisfied with Peggy's long hours at SCDP. "Fine, you don't want to see each other anymore?" is Peggy's immediate response.
Peggy, ever the self-sabatouge her.
Abe balks at that statement, instead complaining that their sex is perfunctory and not fun. All he wants to do is go see a movie with her.
"We can go to the movies, but I can't promise my mind won't be elsewhere," Peggy says. Fine date, that Peggy.
"I'm your boyfriend, not a focus group," Abe says dramatically. "Have a s---ty day." Ouch.
So after this, Peggy is a little off her game, and not really ready for the Heinz beans re-pitch.
Which does not go well. Peggy's team has a sentimental pitch: Kids around a campfire eating beans. Remember those time? Super fun. "It's the beans that brought them together on that cool summer night," Peggy coos. Sure.
The tagline: "Home is where the Heinz is."
The Heinz guy is apprehensive. He wanted college kids, beans to be a bit hipper.
Peggy: "You like it. You just like fighting."
It gets worse, as Peggy tries to go into alpha male Don mode but instead ends up being unprofessional and insulting. "It's young and beautiful and no one else is going to figure out how to say that about beans!" she says.
True, but not appropriate to say to a client. As expected, Pete tells her she's off the project.
So she drinks, goes to the movies to see "Born Free" (without Abe). She's a guy smoking pot and smokes some as the guy sits next to her, touches her leg (cheetahs are erotic, after all). He goes in for a kiss, but Peggy decides a hand job will do.
Peggy Olson, what is happening!? It's always interesting to see the Next Progression of Peggy Olson, but her life has never seemed so sad and desperate as it has in this moment.
Turns out Megan is back at the non-love shack and has put the chain on the lock. Don kicks it in (because he's Don) proceeds to chase Megan around the apartment and later tackles her to the living room floor. No make-up sex on the floor this time, which is sort of what I expected. This whole tackling scene had shades of Tony and Carmela's near domestic-violence squabbles on "The Sopranos."
"I thought I lost you," Don says, near tears. And, you guessed it, when they return to work the next day, they're all back to normal, exchanging loving glances.
I wonder how long this love-hate-love-orange sherbet Megan-Don fights will last this season before they go the way of Roger-Jane. I feel as though something drastic may have to happen to break these toxic two apart. In the meantime, it's awfully devastating to watch.
At the movies with Peggy: How does Peggy cope with her own tension-filled relationship? Go to the movies in the middle of the day, eat popcorn, get high in the theater and, um, pleasure a stranger.
Peggy Olson! You're doing drugs and drinking at work and acting, well, un Peggy-ish.
The episode actually begins with, you guessed it, a fight. 1966: The year no one on "Mad Men" is happy. Peggy's in the bedroom with journalist beau Abe Drexler, who is dissatisfied with Peggy's long hours at SCDP. "Fine, you don't want to see each other anymore?" is Peggy's immediate response.
Peggy, ever the self-sabatouge her.
Abe balks at that statement, instead complaining that their sex is perfunctory and not fun. All he wants to do is go see a movie with her.
"We can go to the movies, but I can't promise my mind won't be elsewhere," Peggy says. Fine date, that Peggy.
"I'm your boyfriend, not a focus group," Abe says dramatically. "Have a s---ty day." Ouch.
So after this, Peggy is a little off her game, and not really ready for the Heinz beans re-pitch.
Which does not go well. Peggy's team has a sentimental pitch: Kids around a campfire eating beans. Remember those time? Super fun. "It's the beans that brought them together on that cool summer night," Peggy coos. Sure.
The tagline: "Home is where the Heinz is."
The Heinz guy is apprehensive. He wanted college kids, beans to be a bit hipper.
Peggy: "You like it. You just like fighting."
It gets worse, as Peggy tries to go into alpha male Don mode but instead ends up being unprofessional and insulting. "It's young and beautiful and no one else is going to figure out how to say that about beans!" she says.
True, but not appropriate to say to a client. As expected, Pete tells her she's off the project.
So she drinks, goes to the movies to see "Born Free" (without Abe). She's a guy smoking pot and smokes some as the guy sits next to her, touches her leg (cheetahs are erotic, after all). He goes in for a kiss, but Peggy decides a hand job will do.
Peggy Olson, what is happening!? It's always interesting to see the Next Progression of Peggy Olson, but her life has never seemed so sad and desperate as it has in this moment.
