Mad Men 7x03 Reaction

Roger did have a scene in the previous episode when he is talking to Lou and realizes that he misses Don

If you feel like adding some period drama after Mad Men is over, there are rather short series, but which would really fit the vibe of that time: Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan in a medical science drama called Masters of Sex.

Trivia: the movie that Don's watching at the beginning is called 'Model Shop' which is about a man in a failing relationship with an actress.

Not sure which boss Peggy would prefer between Lou and Don. She was happiest with Ted as her boss, but that wouldn't work anymore either... I'm curious who Ginsburg or Stan would prefer?

Betty asking "why don't they love me" after an entire day of Bobby just doting on her and hanging on her every word😭. He clearly adores you and after he did some dumb little kid move, you made him feel horrible about it - that's what ruined the day. BETTTTY💔

Besides buying the building Pegy also mentions in a previous episode that her real estate agent advised her to purchase in that neighborhood because the value would go up. The building is in the upper west side which at the time was a considered a bad part of NY but now it's the complete opposite. So her building would be worth a lot today.

Well, we've come a long way from Don refusing to sign a contract. The final season (if we're calling these episodes part of the final season) is always going to have callbacks to the start of the show -- Ken's carousel call-out, of course -- but I really like how Megan's agent calling Don mirrors Don calling Betty's therapist. Different circumstances, with Don on the receiving end of this call instead of initiating it, but a similar betrayal of trust that speaks to his continuing desire to know everything about his partner while they know next to nothing about him. That... isn't a great foundation for a relationship. For what it's worth, Don has been out of work for longer than two months. S6 ended on US Thanksgiving (end of November) and now it's already spring in New York. It has been closer to five months.

yo i know sinners is going to win the poll and i voted for OBAA cause its the best movie but PLEASE consider watching Hamnet anyway - its a masterpiece, Jessie Buckley sweeped every single award you can imagine this season and for reactions... man that ending id pay for a custom reaction lol

One problem with the last two seasons of the show is that characters make nonsensical decisions simply to drive the plot. Don’s partnership shares are worth millions in this period and tens of millions today. They represent almost his entire net worth. Why would he agree to forfeit if he is fired? He could be fired for almost any reason and he would lose everything. Plus this would stand to become significantly wealthier if he were fired. Too often with this show. Plot drives character and not the other way around. Its why nobody at Sterling Cooper behaved appropriately when the Chevy folks shot Cosgrove in the eye. Its why Roger didn’t object when the partners voted on the offer Joan. Increasingly in the later seasons, plot drives character and not the other way around.

Don & Megan's relationship is dying a slow death. She "broke up" with him but the phone call afterwards shows it's not quite over, they're still clinging on (or at least Don is trying to). We never got a big dramatic reveal about Sylvia. No screaming matches or throwing things. Just two people slowly drifting apart emotionally, and now physically. I don't even think Megan would be that devastated to learn about Sylvia now, it would just be one more disappointment to add to the list. She's tired. It's depressing but feels like a realistic portrayal of a failing relationship. It doesn't always end with a bang, sometimes it just slowly fizzles out with one or both parties occasionally making half-hearted attempts to revive it, but both knowing deep down that it's probably doomed.

I'm more on Milena's side when it comes to feeling for Don in this episode. Him trying to stick it out at the office the whole day and refusing to leave, it's hard not to sympathize with him. He's obviously done so much damage to people around him and we've seen Peggy clash with him before, but that was when their power dynamic was different. It always felt good when Peggy gave Don a piece of her mind when he was her boss. In this episode though, Peggy is demeaning to someone who was weaker than her and it felt more cruel than comeuppance.

"He wants to fix it". You could have stopped the review after that one sentence, because you GOT IT. For the contract/buyout/getting-another-job question, Don currently has a non-compete contract as part of his partnership. He cannot work anywhere else even if he quits SC&P, but if he does quit they have to buy out his shares. That's why he was feeding ideas to Freddy Rumsen last episode, since he couldn't put his own name on the work. If he's fired by the other partners then the contract is terminated, so they have to buy him out AND he can get a job somewhere else. Since he has now agreed to these new terms, if he breaks these rules and is fired he will voluntarily give up his shares so the company doesn't have to buy him out. But he would also be able to get a new job somewhere else. The twist that, like Roger said, it would inherently be a demotion no matter how high his salary was, since he wouldn't be a Partner. I will say that Don was right to be surprised and angry at the reception he got walking through the door, because Roger SHOULD have spoken to all of the Partners over the weekend. Or if he couldn't reach them, he should have then called Don and postponed his return. Letting Don walk in cold was bad both personally and profesionally. Something I love in all of my media is what I call the "cold rejection". A quiet, methodical decision to end a relationship that doesn't have any yelling or screaming or loud crying. Because that's a rejection that STICKS. We see it with Megan here, where you can tell she's fighting for self-control but she tells him to leave and gives absolutely no bend when he resists. She's listened to what he said, she's realized the implications, and she saw there was only one possible outcome for her. She tells him it's over, and IT'S OVER. By the way, you are absolutely correct that you SHOULD NOT drink raw milk. You'll occasionally see raw milk advertised as being "natural" (i.e. healthier than pasteurized milk), but this is actively wrong and dangerous. There is absolutely no benefit to raw milk over pasteurized milk (Not even something small, like a 1% increase in vitamins or anything like that), and it is a host to bacteria. Where I live there are laws proposed every few years to allow the sale of raw milk, and if those laws passed my company would actually make money, and we still argue against them EVERY TIME because it's that dangerous. We testify in front of the local legislature and we always end with "If you pass this law, I will make money. Please do not pass this law." So far it's been defeated every time.

I feel for Betty because she does love her kids but it’s hard raising kids when you’re a kid yourself who wasn’t ready to have them but you did because it was expected of you

The partners meeting where they discuss what to do with Don is my favourite Roger scene of the entire show. He goes into that meeting fighting for Don outnumbered 3-to-1 and wins. I'll ever get tired of re-watching it. The "he's gone, anything else?" response when Cutler brings up Harry is the best. Of course it comes in the same episode that Roger doesn't tell a soul in the office that he asked Don to come in - such a Roger thing to do. John Slattery forever.

Stan is the Art Director. Lou is the Creative Director, Dons job. Art reports to Creative

I love that Lola immediately recognizes every meme lol.

Houses in the west-80s in Manhattan where she lives were on the lower end price-wise in the 1960s and Peggy's making a six figure salary in today's dollars so it wouldn't have been too difficult for her to afford