I suspect Betty will be around for next season because Don still needs a bad girl in his life. It's the only way Don can take Bets seriously-as another woman.
Sal will be back eventually. How can he not? You know Don will find some client who will benefit from Sal's exclusive experience.
Peggy will stay around and develop foolish feelings for Don once she learns he's getting divorced.
Roger and Joan are so going to get it on!
Trudy will end up with Joan's doctor once she learns that Pete is non-stop drooling over a self-Betty-fied Peggy.
Why all the Betty hate? I think I'm the only one who likes her even though January Jones is not that good of an actress. Plus, she has her own plot now. She married a man she's only known for six weeks! She and Don will probably spend next season being awkwardly placed in each others presence. Maybe she and Don will have an affair once she realizes what a mistake she has made by marrying Henry! #madmen
@Wannabeer: Sex with Henry will no doubt be totally boring - especially compared to Don. I bet they do it in Reno before the divorce is finalized and Betty flies home solo because she decides she can't possibly marry Henry. #madmen
I just realized last night that Trudie is also Annie on Community with Joel McHale. It was such a shock to realize because they are so different. So she is pretty busy herself. #madmen
@Conchie Birdie: I love both characters, though. Annie is so adorkably earnest. She's Trudy, but without the steely drive to succeed (even if Trudy's own success is measured by her husband's). Trudy is what Annie could become, if she ever learned to stand up for herself. "Community" has already been picked up for next year. That actress owes her agent big-time if he or she brought her both "Mad Men" and "Community." #madmen
@naugahydeinplainsight: No one knows.. But I imagine they could spend all next season in 1964- "meeting the Beatles" alone isn't something they would skip readily.
We'll probably see SCDP in a new office, up and running. But isn't it kind of sad, that long lingering look Don gave the SC office one last time?
Like the intro to the show, that set seems to have become quickly iconic. Especially in retrospect. #madmen
@Baroness: Kennedy is dead, and so is the elusive dream of the perfect American family. And just like the Drapers, it was all based on secrets and lies.
However, I don't see the long, lingering look as iconic at all. Don said: "I never thought I would work in a place this nice." (or words to that effect.) He wants to BUILD something. Don't most people?
Rather than having it handed to them, in a trust fund with a built in bar bill at the Yale Club, don't most people want to DO something with their lives?
Anyway, he people I care about do. #madmen
@resipsaloquacious: She did a pretty standard character role in last week's Mercy* as a mom with cancer undergoing excruciatingly painful treatment. Not a really auspicious appearance for a popular and talented actress.
Rich Sommer's spot on Law & Order last week seemed more appropriate -- B level work for a mid-level actor.
*(NBC show in the lives and loves of Joisey nurses -- ok, a little better than that.)
I'd like to see the date on that divorce decree. Real Don Draper (the dead one) did not divorce his wife, right? His widow, Anna, tracked down our Don after he had married Betty. IIRC, he took care of Anna financially and possibly (first I've heard of it) also got a "divorce" from Anna, but it would have to have post-dated his marriage to Betty.Finding out your husband has been married before is bad enough; finding out your marriage is bigamous is a whole lot worse.Am I missing something? Is this just laziness on the part of the writers ?#madmen
@registered: There was an arc last season that explained all of this via flashbacks. Don spent time with the first Mrs. Draper, then when he met Betty he asked for a "divorce," and promised to get her a house and take care of her. #madmen
@if_i_only_had_a_heart: Agreed. My mother was a 50s bride. She had to resign her government job on marriage; although she provided the down-payment for the house, the deed was in my Dad's name alone. Married women could not have checking accounts in their own name.
Admittedly, I grew up across the pond and America may have been a bit easier place in which to be a woman, but not by much. #madmen
@registered: that all sounds similar to middle class women's issues in the us at the time. poor women always worked. middle class women were allowed to be teachers, but professional paths -- law, medicine -- were closed to them. #madmen
Still watching Carla and Betty closely. The kids are making observations about their homelife and Carla's and are starting to ask questions. I caught the withering look Betty gave Carla. Fire.
Yah, Missy's gonna be boiling some bunnies soon, but it's possible Don is ignoring the signs because the one thing Missy is providing that perhaps Betty isn't, is that blanket unconditional love. Betty's been a little lackluster in that area, and rightly so. So I think Don is also "playing house" or perhaps, "playing newlywed" with Missy. Even though she is just a play thing. But yeah, she will definitely not. be. ignored. #madmen
I hope Betty steps up and realizes she needs some leverage of her own. Every season, she finds out she knows nothing about Don. Not only does she find out about an "ex-wife" but squirreling away that money might bring up her earlier accusations of Don running off. While she is trying to sell her father's house, she should make it her own affair haven. #madmen
mm, a bit unfair on Betty. She simply doesn't have access to the type of freewheeling affairs that Don engages in - perhaps this is why his 'divorce' upsets her so much, a kinder reason than yours, which is that she's merely self-involved. And to say that Don's web of lies is a matter of "survival" is being generous to him and not to Betty, who "enjoys the WASPy station" - actually, it's Don who "enjoys" it - Betty is a WASP and always has been. #madmen
@once: Agreed. I also think this analysis shortchanges Betty's right to shock and self-righteousness when she finds out her husband and the father of her three children has been lying to her about not just his name, but another wife he had in California somewhere. Especially in light of his mysterious, protracted "business trip" to CA from last year. Any rational human being would be horrified to find those documents. #madmen
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Sal will be back eventually. How can he not? You know Don will find some client who will benefit from Sal's exclusive experience.
Peggy will stay around and develop foolish feelings for Don once she learns he's getting divorced.
Roger and Joan are so going to get it on!
Trudy will end up with Joan's doctor once she learns that Pete is non-stop drooling over a self-Betty-fied Peggy.
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The Daily Beast: The formation of the agency left a lot of characters in the wind. Have we seen the last of Ken, Paul, and Sal?
Weiner: I am going to say something that I don’t always say: I don’t know.
(Full interview available at [www.thedailybeast.com]) #madmen
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Slattery can join us if he wants.
Just in case this Mad Men gig doesn't work out.
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We'll probably see SCDP in a new office, up and running. But isn't it kind of sad, that long lingering look Don gave the SC office one last time?
Like the intro to the show, that set seems to have become quickly iconic. Especially in retrospect. #madmen
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However, I don't see the long, lingering look as iconic at all. Don said: "I never thought I would work in a place this nice." (or words to that effect.) He wants to BUILD something. Don't most people?
Rather than having it handed to them, in a trust fund with a built in bar bill at the Yale Club, don't most people want to DO something with their lives?
Anyway, he people I care about do. #madmen
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A great actress, yes. A movie star, not-a-freaking-chance. #madmen
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Rich Sommer's spot on Law & Order last week seemed more appropriate -- B level work for a mid-level actor.
*(NBC show in the lives and loves of Joisey nurses -- ok, a little better than that.)
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Admittedly, I grew up across the pond and America may have been a bit easier place in which to be a woman, but not by much. #madmen
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Yah, Missy's gonna be boiling some bunnies soon, but it's possible Don is ignoring the signs because the one thing Missy is providing that perhaps Betty isn't, is that blanket unconditional love. Betty's been a little lackluster in that area, and rightly so. So I think Don is also "playing house" or perhaps, "playing newlywed" with Missy. Even though she is just a play thing. But yeah, she will definitely not. be. ignored. #madmen
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