Mad Men: "That's What Husbands Are For"
The Mad Men finale happened, and after weeks of tension, Grand Gesture-Watch '62 finally came to an end. What a long, strange, long, long, too long, too many awkward pauses trip it's been. The soap opera we all love (and some of us love to hate sometimes, but mostly love) concluded its second season with the Cuban Missile Crisis we all knew was coming, and the abortion dilemma we also all knew was coming, but maybe not so soon. It was a good episode, but it's good to have a break from the show that's like a regular TV show on Miltown. After the jump, two of my favorite clips. Here's "to not thinking about things!"
While it can (and should) be argued that Don's "grand gesture" to get Betty back was, you know, knocking her up, the letter is supposed to be the grand gesture, so here's that part. It's sweet, but I think regular viewers of the show see it as bullshit, and not just because Betty slept with that bar guy. Because Don is lying about all that alone stuff:
And was anyone else like "WTF" when Peggy gave this weird, kind of nonsensical monologue to Pete after she told him she'd had his baby? It's even weirder/funnier out of context. Somebody wants an Emmy!:
It's funny to imagine that when she says "I'm sorry" at the end, it's because of her long weird monologue. "I'm sorry, but Matthew Weiner made me say that." Who knows what will happen when the show comes back, but ignore other websites' suggestions that the show will skip forward to the mid-'60's. JFK's assassination is only a year away, and there's no WAY they're missing the chance to milk the melodrama out of that event. Now what on earth are we going to watch? Days Of Our Lives?
Posted by Lindsay at 2:30 PM in Soap Operas, Spoilers
Tags: Betty Draper | Don Draper | Elisabeth Moss | January Jones | Jon Hamm | Mad Men | Peggy Olson | Pete Campbell | Vincent Kartheiser
californication! that show is amazing. or dexter, not sure how you don't watch that.
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No one watches anything on Showtime. It's all an illusion.
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I've known since the premiere of this season that it was going to end with Peggy telling Pete about the baby, but I was hoping for something more, umm, spectacular to happen with it. Like she finally loses her cool and blurts it out or something, but I guess that's not Mad Men's style.
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i JUST saw the finale on demand... and wow!
wtf!
pete's totally going to off himself. i've never felt sympathy for his character until now.
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season 3 opens with the boys (and peggy) gathered around a can of tab, discussing what the heck this 'diet soda' thing is. meanwhile, we catch a snippet of a news report about vietnam in the background. also, pete returns to the office in a neru jacket, espousing the beauty of his recent trip to india. 'they've got this SITAR music there. what a thing!'
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Peggy's little speech was my favorite part of the whole episode, and I think it made a lot of sense. She's really the apostle of Don Draper's weird code of life and actually subscribes to it better than Don. Not exactly what I was waiting for all season, but still awesome.
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