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Designed for ageshandbagschnhttp://www.handbagschn.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617857852696675419.post-83643636058007518742012-05-26T09:57:07.503-05:002012-05-26T09:57:07.503-05:00But then, re-reading your ending, I think of Picas...But then, re-reading your ending, I think of Picasso's, 'Art is a lie that helps us see the truth more clearly,' though I doubt he meant: that helps us see clearly how we're always lying. <br /><br />There was a strong suggestion last episode that Megan's acting was, in fact, the most honest thing going on in this milieu, specifically in the scene of her teaching Sally how to cry. In an episode in which everyone else, particularly Don and Betty, seemed locked up in their egotism and anxiety, Sally and Megan were sitting on mats cross-legged like practitioners of Zen and Megan's instructions sounded like they were for contemplating difficult reality: 'Just keep your eyes open and think of something that makes you sad.'John Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617857852696675419.post-21357517821342732462012-05-25T10:48:42.228-05:002012-05-25T10:48:42.228-05:00Similarly finding myself with very little to say, ...Similarly finding myself with very little to say, but I liked this episode too and wanted to say: good writeup.John Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617857852696675419.post-19295222557545990602012-05-24T08:41:44.599-05:002012-05-24T08:41:44.599-05:00Not much to add here but I thought this was a good...Not much to add here but I thought this was a good episode and good post as the others have said. Cheers.Jez B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617857852696675419.post-11883163173277210402012-05-22T23:11:58.489-05:002012-05-22T23:11:58.489-05:00Hi Lauren,
I'll take it as a compliment ...Hi Lauren,<br /><br />I'll take it as a compliment ...zinanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617857852696675419.post-42257051797574243332012-05-22T21:33:52.642-05:002012-05-22T21:33:52.642-05:00Just popping in to join the chorus of praise for t...Just popping in to join the chorus of praise for this v. insightful post. Thanks Caroline!<br /><br />Zina, I thought of you when I heard the reference to Bobbie Barrett and I'm not even sure why ;)<br /><br />It is interesting how much Don enjoyed a good spar with Roy (Midge's director friend) and how many classic lines came out of that exchange as opposed to this much more vulnerable Don. I don't know much about "America Hurrah" and am not even sure which of the three plays it was they saw (TV perhaps?). But it was interesting to see Don so unable to speak back to it; he has never actually believed in advertising but only believed that in a world where everything is advertising you might as well be the guy who does it better than anyone else. Now he seems truly wounded by Megan's leaving copywriting to be an actress. This hardly seems like the worst blow ever struck against advertising! It's not like she left it to be...an English professor ;) Seriously though: is Don just feeling oversensitive and rejected as he did over the orange sherbet that went over so poorly? Or is there more to this "dream" which, in the mouth of Megan's father, took on the guise of some kind of leftwing alternative?MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08984136164543370547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617857852696675419.post-4232425962942700552012-05-22T04:24:01.999-05:002012-05-22T04:24:01.999-05:00Thank you for this brilliant take. Marriage (and a...Thank you for this brilliant take. Marriage (and adultery), performance, advertising: the three cornerstones of the show are constantly at stake, and interacting, sometimes in a quasi sadistic way (like when long ago Betty suddenly, and in the midst of a dinner party, understood that what she has prepared for her husband and his business partners was just another performance plotted among everyone involved, (to sell beer) but her - the housewife is always the last to know). <br /><br />All three are still at play: Megan gets Don to attend a countercultural anti-consumerist play (American Hurrah), that bores him out of his skull, and offends him as an ad man. That harkens back to his mistress Midge, and her avant-garde director lover,attending a play in the Village, and having this exchange : director says: "Mediocrity was born on Broadway"; Don : "But it is conceived right here".<br /><br />The following day, Don and Joan at Jaguar merrily pretend to be a couple. Later, Don gallantly takes Joan, who was just served with divorce papers, to a bar, where they have a wistful, flirty, boozy exchange. It is a great scene, which however underlines how much these two are beautiful dinosaurs, in their fashion, their musical tastes (not the psychedelic Beatles, but Doris Day), their references (Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, Ali Khan). You almost expect them to end in a hotel room, like in the old wild days of Bobbie Barrett (who is explicitly referenced).<br /><br />Back to 1966, and to real life, Don has a fight with Ms Draper #2, with theatrical flourishes, tantrums, that might just compensate for the fact that as of now, her dream of acting has basically turned her into a housewife - you know, that role that middle and upper class women had such a hard time escaping. Shades of Betty in Megan waiting, and waiting, at the dinner table, with a glass of wine, for a neglectful and drunken husband to come back home. mtetinzinanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617857852696675419.post-35710229374479263302012-05-22T02:25:33.839-05:002012-05-22T02:25:33.839-05:00Absolutely fascinating thoughts. Thank you. Over...Absolutely fascinating thoughts. Thank you. Over on the Guardian's discussion we have been tracking the substitutions all season and this episode took it to a new level. Of course, at the start of every episode the falling man of the title sequence replaces himself. And wasn't it Don who pointed out a season or so ago what we all know is the most important word in advertising: new.Helenanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617857852696675419.post-24517332308307178922012-05-21T23:15:49.695-05:002012-05-21T23:15:49.695-05:00So elegant: one two three! What a convincing readi...So elegant: one two three! What a convincing reading! For the viewer, the feeling of ritual closure & constant reinscription is only increased by the fact that we know (or think we know) how the "story of the '60s" played out. Joss Whedon's "Dollhouse" was an even more tragic rehearsal of what it feels like to be an actor: with every new role, your previous identity gets (literally) erased. But we don't need a flash-forward into an apocalyptic future (like "Dollhouse" did) to imagine how this series will end; we just remember the closed-off apocalyptic past of the 1970s. <br /><br />On the other hand, we don't actually know how each story will turn out: will we ever get over seeing Paul Kinsey as a Hare Krishna? I like it when this show works against the ritualized feel of its vision of the '60s -- which is hypnotic, it's lovely, but it can lull you into passivity.Eleanornoreply@blogger.com