“Mad Men” is quite the ride this season. Normally we have a slow build up, but this season every episode is thrilling. I thought after the events of last weeks’ episode we would slow down a little before the season finale, but apparently not. This week let’s start with the adventures of Sally Draper. We see that the relationship between Sally and Betty has not improved as Sally refuses to go on a ski vacation and demands to stay with her Dad and Megan (rich people problems). While in the city Sally tries her best to act like a young woman and not a little girl; the signs clearly point to her not yet being a woman. She pours a ton of sugar into her coffee and when she calls her boyfriend, Glen, over she plays dress up while the two of them decide to go to the museum and pretend they are adults. But then suddenly and forcefully she does become a young woman by having her period; which makes her act like a scarred little girl by running to her mother for comfort. It is in this moment that Betty finally shows compassion to her daughter and the two of them bond in a way they haven’t before, because Sally is no longer just her little girl.
Over in the Don corner of the universe, we see that he is still upset about what happened with Joan and Jaguar. However, it is brought to his attention that he issued a check to Lane for $7,500. Knowing that he didn’t sign the check, he confronts Lane and asks him to resign. Witnessing Lane’s breakdown and how Don wasn’t able to help him drives him to build the business bigger. He confronts Roger and tells him he wants Dow. The company that told him he would never be hired because of his letter. They get the meeting and Don is ferocious, he is hungry. You could very well view his scene of Don talking Dow as Don talking to himself. It will be interesting to see how long this continues after this episode.
Before finishing Don’s story it is time to visit with Lane Pryce. After being honored with a position with 4A’s (and advertising association) he is confronted by Don. The breakdown leads him to fall even further with lies to his wife and inappropriate comments to Joan. However his wife has a surprise, she bought him a Jaguar. There is nothing more that could symbolize his failure more right now. It drives him to decide to commit suicide and the car won’t start. A fitting result given that he couldn’t start Jaguar at the company either. He decides instead to commit the deed at work. Seeing as he has already given everything to the company that is where he should end it all. When Don finds out what he did, he instantly knows why Lane did it. And he can’t leave him there. And so the three men who lifted him up from PPL are forced to bring him back down. Lifting him up from where he was is what ultimately led to his doom; it’s poetic that those three are the ones to bring him down.
Only one more episode left. I don’t expect anything as altering as the past two episodes to occur but it should help to wrap up the season nicely.
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