Mad Men '15

I think that Glen is relevant to Betty far more than Sally. But that story has been over for years.

I guess if you look at Sally's disgust at both her parents flirting with her friends, there is a flicker of a story line. But I think this is the equivalent of David Chase bringing in his daughter as Hunter for the Sopranos series finale.

 

Had no idea Glen was played by Weiner's kid, but there's basically been one Glen sighting a season for the past few years and this one made sense to me

 

"What's in a name?"

 

Hey, something happened this week!

 

Fitting that this episode was directed by Jared Harris (Lane Pryce), who helped orchestrate the creation of SCDP (SC&P).

 

Classic episode. "One for the ages," Jim Nantz would call it.
What did the McCann executive mean, when he said our fearless heroes (and heroine) had "passed the test?"

 

My prediction: Peggy goes to work for McCann for the three years, then she leaves to start her own firm with Don's backing.

 

Great recap of the episode, courtesy of the Hollywood Reporter:

'Mad Men': Tim Goodman On Pairing Up And Partnering Off As Change Announces Its Arrival - The Hollywood Reporter

"...This is the episode that had to happen. At some point, we had to have an exclamation point on the end of the professional aspects of these characters lives. More can still happen, but more doesn’t really need to happen. It happened in “Time & Life.” They both march on. Yada yada. We just witnessed it."

 

I haven't read any recaps yet, but there were a ton of callbacks in this episode to earlier seasons -- old scores settled, etc.

One line which stood out was where the the guy from McCann told the Sterling Cooper partners that they had gone to advertising heaven. Especially with the shot of Don looking out the window in the previews.

So many good scenes -- Peggy-Pete, Roger-Don, Peggy-Stan. Didn't love the end of final scene -- the employees wouldn't act that way.

 

Learned this from the Grantland recap, but the schoolmaster's "grudge" against Pete was apparently based on this:

Massacre of Glencoe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(For you Game of Thrones fans, it also inspired the Red Wedding).

 

for all the reasons I wish Mad Men was on HBO, the biggest is to see Trudy naked

 

I melted a little bit during that scene between Peggy and Stan.