I'm completely addicted to Mad Men lately, even more than usual. I came this close to buying a curve-hugging Calvin Klein black sweater dress yesterday because it looked like something Joan Holloway would wear. If I start smoking and drinking Old-Fashioneds at my desk, then please get me some help!
Ooh, this episode was really good! Don Draper receives a call from Bobbie who is getting trashed on martinis at Sardi's. Because Don has a weakness for women who want to jump his bones, he goes to meet her. She's there in a cocktail dress, drinking and smoking from one of those cool cigarette holders. Oh Bobbie, you're so glamorous, Dahhling! Although, I do find her annoying, I gotta give it to her in the seduction department. She reminds me of Mrs. Robinson from The Graduate.
At Sardi's, Don runs into the love of his life, and no, I'm not talking about his wife, Betty. His lovely ex-paramour Rachel Menken walks by their table with a man who turns out to be her (gasp!) husband. She looks beautiful, and Don looks as if somebody has just punched him in the balls when he sees her. He looks shocked and devastated. Good for Rachel! I'm glad she got married. What was she going to do? Waste her youth on a jackass like Don Draper who was never going to leave his wife?! She was smarter than that. And, telling him to hit the bricks was the best thing she could have possibly done. Needless to say, it is an uncomfortable moment between the two of them, and even Bobbie picks up on something. She makes some comment about how it got "cloudy in here,". Don shrugs it off, and they have dinner and more martinis. She starts asking him what he likes, and Don just sits there like a robot (I do not feel any emotion. Beep. Beep.) You would think that would be a rather easy question, but not for Don.
Talking to him is like pulling teeth. Bobbie tells Don that she has a cottage on the shore in Stonybrook(?), and she wants him to make passionate love to her on the beach. Don can't resist sex, so he agrees. In the car, Bobbie coos how she feels so wonderful right now, and then asks Don how he feels to which he says: "I don't feel a thing." (Beep. Beep. Does not compute. What are fee-lings? Beep.)Bobbie wants to make him feel something, so she starts kissing his ear and neck while he's trying to drive. Smart move, idiot. Don closes his eyes in ecstasy, and then CRASH! Big accident, and their car flips over.
They end up at the police station. The police had found an open bottle of liquor and Don had failed the sobriety test (quelle surprise!). He's ordered to pay $150, which must've been a lot of money back then because Ken Cosgrove gets $300 a week, so that's half his weekly paycheck. Don tries to give the cop $63 and some subway tokens, but the cop is not having it. $150 tonight or Don gets to stay in the drunk tank all night. Don makes a phone call and Peggy appears in the door. She gives him $110 to bail him out, and then she has to drive Don and Bobbie. Don goes home and Bobbie has to stay with Peggy. Lucky Peggy.
Peter and his wife are having difficulty conceiving, so they go to the doctor's, and he asks Peter a lot of questions like: "How old were you when your testicles descended?" Yikes. After some uncomfortable questions and a sperm sample analysis, the Campbells discover that Peter has healthy sperm (of course he does, he fathered a kid!)Trudy becomes upset because she knows it's now her fault why they can't conceive, and Peter is a total insensitive jerkoff in the situation. Way to be sympathetic toward your wife! He ends up yelling at her, when he should be giving her a hug, and telling her it will be alright. She folds and apologizes for making such a big deal out of it. Ugh. I hope Trudy finally realizes what type of guy Peter is, and leaves him. He's so inconsiderate to her.
Joan gets engaged. Roger is jealous. There's a new girl in the office, and she's Don's new secretary, and he could care less, ha. Some guy in Accounts comes out and unzips his fly to the tune of Mozart.(It's random, but very funny.) Ken tries to make a move on the new girl. He's so smooth, ha!
And, at the end, Peggy flashes back to Don visiting her when she had just had the baby, and she was mentally incapacitated. Don tells her to move forward and forget this ever happened. He says: "Move forward and pretend it never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened," - which speaks miles about Don and how he left his past and identity behind him. Now, it is clear why he called Peggy to come bail him out. They both have secrets on each other, and they've been there for the other. They are starting to have an interesting dynamic, and it looks as if Peggy is on her way to becoming Don's equal, whether he likes it or not.
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