Monday, August 31, 2009

Mad Men Season 3 "My Old Kentucky Home"


"I am so high."
             - Peggy Olson

Here's some things I thought:
  • Perhaps this season should be subtitled "The Decline and Fall of the American Empire."  The passages Sally was reading sounded a lot like what has been happening on Mad Men. "Fashion was the only law, pleasure was the only pursuit."  And, as Gene says, "you just wait, all hell's gonna break loose."

  • We saw our first look at the two-headed monster that is Pete/Ken: Accounts Manager.

  • Ouch! The verbal (but polite) little catfight between Jane and Joan.  Nice hat Jane, you look like a mushroom.

  • Seeing Roger Sterling in blackface was more disturbing than most everything on the last season of Breaking Bad (except for the head on the tortoise.)

  • As Betty discussed her pregnancy with the ladies, it was sad to see Trudy's look of sorrow at not having children.

  • Betty's encounter outside of the ladies room and having a strange man caress her belly.  She seems to have adopted some of Don's flirting characteristics.

  • I like Olive. 

  • That was a nice little story Don told at the bar. I assume he felt okay doing it because it was to a stranger.

  • I am still sticking by my story that Peggy is destined for the head of accounts or to replace Don.  Even if she is stoned to the bejesus belt on her way.  I loved how she is standing up to the men more.  Nice rant about bras and perfume to Orson Welles Kinsey.

  • My favorite rum pitch was "Bacar-di Eisenhower."

  • Never has an accordion looked more sexy.

  • What is this issue with Joan's husband?. The wife said "whatever happens to Greg at least he got a woman like you."  And there was the line about the bad result and a quick "no shop talk" response.  Maybe he isn't the perfect man after all (aside from already raping his fiancé on the office floor in Season 2.)

  • Who would have thought that Pete and Trudy would be winners on Dancing with the Stars?

  • Kiernan Shipka as Sally Draper deserves some credit for pitch perfect acting of the shamed and sorry child. The whole set of scenes gave Betty's Dad a human side that I hadn't seen before.

  • I admit to being originally mystified by the ending of a second episode in a row.  But, upon further reflection, did Don have a change of heart (if he has one?)  He told Roger that his fling/marriage with Jane was foolish.  However, after Jane mentioned their split and Betty ran off we see him looking at Roger dancing with Jane in a loving embrace.  Did this make Don realize how great his wife/life really is?  We will see but it inspired him to literally drop everything and express a bit of his own passion.

  • Wouldn't it be ironic if he came to this decision only to find that Betty had decided to do a little stepping out of her own?

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