Monday, June 4, 2012

Mad Men "Commissions and Taxes"

Or "Good Don, Bad Don."

"She lets me eat what I want!" That's a statement that launched a thousand eating disorders.

See, I was right all along. This season is all about parents and stuff.

Glen is one suave mother kisser. A museum makes a great first date. Maybe not the Museum of Natural History, but it's a lesson learned. You can just hear him saying, "Would you like to come up and see my taxidermy collection?"

After Betty's talk with Sally about womanhood I really hope that we aren't heading for a knocked up Sally.

Don dropped the napalm on Dow. Metaphorically. That's the Don we haven't seen a lot of this season. Well, except when he left Ginsberg's artwork in the cab.

You just knew that Lane wasn't going to get away with it. He's not as clever as he thinks. Or thought. Then he goes and gets all Peggy on Don. That wasn't pretty. Or maybe he was a bit more Pete.

Don told him, "The next thing will be better because it always is." I guess that Megan is a perfect example. Even when things don't work out for Don they always seem to work out for Don. Don't you just hate people like that?

Lane had a date with destiny and she just bought a Jaguar. That's how it usually works out.

First of all, that's not how you commit suicide by Jag. Bert was right about them all along. A few weeks ago someone else on the Internet referred to to it as an "E Class." It's an "E type." E Class is Mercedes-Benz. If it was an E Class it would've started. I'm just saying.

In the end, committing suicide in the office is a message and a not too subtle one at that.

I'm sure that Don still feels a tiny bit of guilt about Adam. Maybe. You can never tell what is going on in his head. I wonder if he told Megan about him. I doubt it.

Last season Don more or less committed career suicide with the letter. Now that Lane has committed actual suicide where does that leave the firm? Stirling Cooper Draper Campbell? Imagine how obnoxious Pete would be then. How is Don going to pull this one out of the fire? He does have a way of turning things around.

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