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Last night, a friend who hasn’t seen any of the most recent season of Mad Men googled “Mad Men,” or something, to find out what season they’re up to (Season 5) and in .5 seconds had the entire season spoiled for him. Very foolish! I’m telling you that parable now so you don’t read this portion of an interview with Jarred Harris, the actor who plays Lane Pryce, if you’re not caught up on Mad Men because, SPOILER ALERT, it is one big spoiler. So stop reading now! If you aren’t caught up! But for the rest of us, Jarred was asked if Mad Men gave him a going away party (sure) and this was his answer, from The Daily:
They didn’t. You know, we’re always ending things. Actors are always ending jobs. It isn’t a big deal in that sense. Also other people had left the show that had been there since the beginning. Elisabeth [Moss] left the episode before and she’d been there since the beginning. Michael Gladis (Paul Kinsey) left in season three [though reappeared for one episode this season]… Bryan Batt. People leave and it’s just part of it. They didn’t make a giant fuss.
Whuuuuuuuuut? Since the interview was published, the quote has been re-published everywhere as evidence that Peggy Olson is actually off of the show for good. (After a follow-up question, Jarred said “I have no idea what Matthew Weiner intends to do and even then I couldn’t tell you.” So there’s also that bit of back-peddling.) But, I don’t think it means that? I think he legitimately just does not know what he’s talking about. I also think that if Peggy Olson were off of the show for good (or close enough to “for good,” like Paul Kinsey), everyone would know about it already anyway. The surprise was that she left the agency, I don’t know that a slow-burner “oh yeah, she never did come back did she?” surprise would be something worth protecting. Right? Or no? Do you not agree? What do you think? Tell me what you think.
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She’ll be back for the series finale ultimate mano-a-mano Don vs. Peggy showdown over who gets Pringles or something.
That doesn’t sound right at all! Where’s your head at?
Of course she’ll be back. Someone still has to kill Pete. Right, Huckabeast?
I think one thing about Mad Men that I like is the unpredictability of whether or not characters will be returning, and part of that is due to Matt Weiner’s/ the cast’s secrecy (I still am waiting for Don to suffer the wrath of Dr. Faye after basically ruining her life in the fourth season). I totally buy Jared Harris’ backpedaling and don’t think what he said initially actually means anything in regards to Elisabeth Moss being off the show as a regular character – maybe it means she won’t be in the season finale, but nobody except Weiner probably knows whether she’ll be in the sixth and seventh season. Also, I don’t remember this sort of fuss existing when Cooper said he was leaving the firm at the end of the fourth season, and he was right back in the mix this season.
Dr. Faye’s Foot/Don’s Ass OTP
Isn’t it planned to end after next season anyways? Even if Peggy has this whole arc of coming back I don’t think she’ll be very prominent. I really don’t see the show shifting focus to her at the new agency for the whole last season…well, maybe if Megan goes to work with her.
Weiner’s new deal was for seasons 5 & 6, with talk of/an option for a seventh. If Weiner wishes, they’ll go to seven.
No, I think he doesn’t know, because why would you tell someone you fired what you were going to do at your workplace in the future? Right? Yeah, I think he just meant like, she was don’t for the year and they didn’t get her any cake. I think she’s done this season, but in season six we’ll see SCDP (SCDH?) movin’ on up in the world and Peggy’s department at Chao’s agency is their main rival, and there will be some tense lunches or meetings or whatever.
OR MAYBE SHE’LL SHOW UP NEXT WEEK AND FALL DOWN THE ELEVATOR SHAFT.
that elevator shaft! somebody better fall down that thing or we’ll never have resolution!
ahhhh, relief…
Everypone jumps down it and the next two seasons are in heaven!
Mad Men needs Peggy. There have been so many episodes where the show only works because of the attention paid to Peggy (and Joan). I can’t enjoy watching Don be Don without having another main character to root for. I hope Weiner realizes this and keeps Peggy prominent. I like Meghan, but she’s not cut out to fill the gap.
I love that the show occasionally loses characters, because it adds to the reality. I’m just not sure if a Mad Men without Peggy Olson is a Mad Men I want to watch (but still will).
I hear you. I mean, she will definitely be in one or two more eps but introducing more characters at the new agency would make it a max beer bong spinoff. Her character is, for the purposes of the show is done. She’s at a place where she is appreciated and doing the job she loves. Going back to Draper cooper campbellholloway would be a regression. It’s time to go into our offices, drink some whisky, kiss her hand and let her go.
Ps. I’m commenting from my phone today. Sorry if my writing seems like the diary of a mad person.
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sorry. tried to upvote but clicked a hair to the right on accident.
This definitely won’t be the last we’ve seen of Peggy. If you read the full article, he goes on to mention his the upcoming 70s-set spin-off show, “Mad Knights,” in which she relocates to LA to set up her own detective agency.
It was another one of those days. Mrs. Joan Harris walked through my door like a model strutting down a catwalk — an Irish redhead with legs for hours. No dame her age could afford a pen necklace like that, but her looks more than made up for her morals. She was to bad news what apple pie was to America. The dame was all business – before I could offer her a seat she goes and tells me Don’s been nailed. Couldn’t punch out copy if it walked into the ring and insulted his wife. Now he’d taken to the sauce and needed a ringer to knock out Heinz Beans…..
He was drunk in this interview obviously.
How pissed is Jared Harris that the week he died, all anyone can talk about is what he said about ANOTHER character maybe leaving? “No no Lane, Imma let you finish, but Peggy is definitely coming back, right?”
*Jarred Harris.
I think if E-Mo had really left for real then she would, like Jared Harris, have done “five hours of media interviews the Monday after the episode aired”.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mad-men-lane-jared-harris-333497
Which is good bc Peggy is the best this season.
Unless, I mean, you never know right?