Mad Men: Real Predictions And Dream Drapersex
Well, we couldn't expect another hour of total excitement after last week's tension-breaking catharsisfest, could we? It's back to the slow building, building, building. You know what I do while I watch Mad Men, to deal with the slowness? Jumping jacks. I highly recommend it. So, even though not a whole lot actually "happened" on last night's show, there were some good lines and some even better foreshadowing. And also a dream-sequence Don/Betty sex scene that defies the propriety of the times in which they lived!
First, some predictions based on this episode:
"You should eat." "Stop it Don. Noone's watching.":
Plus: "Aren't you going to eat?":
Equals: Betty is going to be anorexic!!
It's 1962. The counterculture is coming in a few years. Glen tells Betty about being ignored by his divorced parents:
Equals: Glen is going to be a counterculture HIPPIE!
And this is the worst one, you guys. I'm sorry but Paul can't be about to go down to Mississippi to register black voters with his girlfriend and say the words: "Nobody's been shot lately":
Unless either Paul (or more likely, his girlfriend) is going to be shot. :( :( :(!
But it's okay, because as Betty's only parent left, her family's old housekeeper tells her: "It's all good outside that door.":
What? Nobody said that back then!
And introducing the clip that might be the most representative two minutes of this show ever: they make us sit through over a minute and a half of tense, awkward undressing in silence, only to get to a sex scene that turns out to ONLY BE A DREAM:
(We're probably supposed to not know for sure whether or not it was a dream, but it was a dream. Because Betty was on top, and that position wasn't invented until 1983.)
God, what a great show. I hope something happens next week when Don and Pete go out to LA. We're still on Grand Gesture-Watch '62!
Posted by Lindsay at 5:00 PM in Soap Operas, Spoilers
Tags: Betty Draper | Don Draper | Elisabeth Moss | January Jones | Jon Hamm | Mad Men
I thought it was a dream too, but amctv.com's recap says: "Betty and Don stay over at her father's house, Don on the floor beside her bed. She joins him in the middle of the night and they make love."
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Definitely not a dream sequence. I thought that whole "we don't have to pretend" conversation when they got home was in reference to that.
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why is that a dream?
betty couldn't sleep so she turned to don for short-term comfort. there was nothing all that dreamy about it.
stop confusing me!
best scene: when paul addressed the elevator operator familiarly in front of his girlfriend, a thing he never does day-to-day.
it's time for a real black character.
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I figured it out. This is just a remake of Gone With The Wind. Betty as Scarlett, Don as Rhett, Jimmy Barrett (or maybe Arthur Case) as Ashley.
Stay with me now. The role of Mammy is so significant to the moral compass of the story that it has been split into 2 parts: Betty & Don's hired help and Betty's father's hired help. Dem ladies sho gots a lot of wisdom about the healing power of the outdoors.
I can't wait for Season 3, when Sterling Cooper (Tara) gets burned to the ground by Fred Rumsen.
Also, kudos to Peggy in her role as Prissy. "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' and abandonin' no illegitimate babies."
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Take it back: Tara didn't burn!
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