Let’s talk about last night’s episode and share our thoughts, links to excellent recaps, and (of course) hilarious gifs! A few of my own thoughts after the cut.
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Three storylines, three bullet points:
- Peggy’s story: Poor Peggy. She does the same sort of shit that Don does in a pitch but she’s considered out-of-line. I’d be pissed off enough to give a handy to a stranger in a movie theater. (OK maybe not.) That scene that she shared with Ginsburg, where he shares having been born in a concentration camp, was beautiful. There’s something about revealing a staggering, disturbing bit of your life in the middle of jokey conversation, right? Goodness knows I’m familiar with that.
- Roger Sterling’s LSD trip! (Didn’t Jane look gorgeous in her LSD outfit? I don’t blame Roger for always telling her how beautiful she is.) I usually don’t care for drug sequences in TV and film, but there was something really beautiful and understated about it–the trippy bits weren’t overly trippy. I especially loved the bathtub scene when Roger laughs manically while “seeing” the 1919 Black Sox game and Jane says, “I can’t see that.” Perfect.
- Don Draper really knows how to give a lovely romantic gift. Did anyone else notice the parallels between this diner scene and their first diner scene, when Don realized that Megan was the anti-Betty? (Perhaps he’s wrong–perhaps Megan is simply Early Betty, the Betty he’s forgotten ever existed.) Their laying-on-the-floor scene is, I guess, supposed to parallel their post-light-BSDM-post-coital scene from the season premiere. But I’m still not sure what that means.
I didn’t like this episode as much as last week’s, mostly because of Don and Megan’s storyline. What did you guys think?
