Remember when Don told a room full of Hershey execs that he was raised by prostitutes? Those were good times.
Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl.
I'm sure you've all been able to have some time to process your thoughts, so here are ours.
Maggie: Hurray!
Clovis: Hey, can everyone see me?
Maggie: Yup
Clovis: w00t Arsenic Pie, you there?
Maggie: Arseeeeeniiiiiic.
Arsenic Pie: I am here. I was finishing up with a student.
Maggie: TV Slut threeway!
Arsenic Pie: I told her I liked Lady Gaga. And she shrieked in my ear.
Maggie: God, ESL students take FOREVER
Arsenic Pie: Legit shrieked. She was super stoked.
Maggie: I mean, what? Arsenic Pie: You have no idea
Maggie: Haha.
Clovis: Twelve lines in and we're already inappropriate.
Maggie: There goes my food empire, I'm a racist.
Quiet, bird. I'll deal with you later.
Arsenic Pie: feel like we're off to a good start.
Maggie: Hurray! So, Arsenic Pie, I dub thee in charge, since you are the Mad Men expert du jour.
Arsenic Pie: YAY I'M THE QUEEN. Okay, so. OMG. Where to start?
Maggie: TRUTHTELLING and CONSEQUENCES. That was what I got out of it.
Arsenic Pie: Holy crap. I loved how the Hershey meeting turned into Don's therapy session. I mean, let's be real. Don needs a ton of therapy.
Maggie: It was the anti-Kodak carousel speech, right?
Arsenic Pie: But not in the chocolate meeting!
Maggie: Is it wrong that through that whole meeting, I just wanted a Hershey bar? Hershey is my favorite.
Arsenic Pie: I dislike Hershey. It is too sweet.
Clovis: Funny, I wanted a prostitute. What can you do?
Arsenic Pie: I like dark chocolate. I'm sure that could be arranged, Clovz.
Maggie: FOCUS, TV SLUTS.
Arsenic Pie: I wonder what Aimee is up to these days. Still deflowering 14-year-old boys. With her withered old hooker hands. ANYWAY.
Maggie: Sigh
Clovis: Well, on that (and seriously)... I was impressed that I think this is the first time in the show Don has, like, told the truth about something.
Arsenic Pie: I feel as though Don has grown. Maggie: I know! That was exactly what I was thinking!
Clovis: I mean, it's one thing for Megan to know his past. But it's totally something else for everyone else. He has grown, but that growth is showing how far down he really is.
Maggie: Other than when he told a few people about the Dick Whitman thing, but this was like honesty about FEELINGS. And then, oops, he gets canned.
Arsenic Pie: You always root for him (at least I do) because he's this horrible cad who lies and cheats his way through everything, but he always somehow manages to come out of it relatively unscathed. But OMG he felt more human and less of a tool. I felt bad for him. That scene at the end with Sally made me want to cry.
Maggie: That was so cold when that dude with Duck was like, "Going down?" Burn! The girl who plays Sally is amazing.
Clovis: HAHA IKR?
Maggie: Remember when she said she didn't know anything about him? That look she gave him at the end, when he finally revealed something about himself...perfect.
Arsenic Pie: OMG I wanted to hit Duck. Where did they dig him up, anyway? I thought they fired Duck ages ago.
Clovis: See, I'm from the school of thought that I want to see Don fall, so I kind of got some glee from watching him get effectively shit-canned.
Arsenic Pie: Oh, that girl has MAD acting skils. I felt like Don was going to fall eventually, but I thought it would be more in a lung cancer way.
Maggie: Also with the sick burn: Bert Cooper.
Clovis: Or liver failure.
Arsenic Pie: Or a heart attack. Really.
Clovis: Which might be where they're going now that Don's got the DTs before a meeting
Arsenic Pie: As a side note, I did like how Ted revealed his dad was a drunk. Ted is like almost the anti-Don.
Maggie: Ted is exactly the anti-Don Clovis: I feel like Ted is what Bobby could be if he grows up okay. I read an article where Matthew Weiner said that explictly.
Arsenic Pie: They should whip a goatee on Ted. Did he really? I did not see that article. Clovis: That makes sense. He's Don's foil a lot of the time. Plus they both use Peggy, but at least Ted is more honest about it.
Maggie: http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/06/24/mad-men-finale-matthew-weiner/
Arsenic Pie: Because Ted could totally leave his wife for Peggy, but he chooses to stay with his wife. The Total Draper Move in that situation is to leave the wife.
Maggie: Except for when he lies about leaving his wife to get in her pants. I was SO MAD at him. Because I adored Ted...up until then.
Arsenic Pie: Or the Total Roger Sterling Move. I thought for a second that maybe he meant it, but when he went back to his wife I was like nah. He's not gonna leave his wife for Peggy. And poor Peggy. Man.
Maggie: Peggy needs to get with Stan and stop being with unavailable guys. Stan was so adorable in his suit, waiting for Don. A
Arsenic Pie: It's what Peggy does. I love me some Stan. I hated Abe.
Maggie: Agreed.
Clovis: I actually thought they were going to have Peggy pull a role reversal on Ted
Maggie: His hair was bloody stupid.
Arsenic Pie: Abe was awful to her. He was so hairy and annoying.
Maggie: I would have stabbed him MONTHS ago.
Clovis: Like, have Peggy be all "Well, thanks for the sex. Now get it. Mamma wants to sleep."
Arsenic Pie: I loved that she used a BAYONET.
Maggie: Peggy is old school.
Arsenic Pie Like who does that? Peggy Olson. Who has a bayonet? No one.
Maggie: I am going to add that to my OK Cupid profile. "Once stabbed an ex with a bayonet, because it was handy."
Arsenic Pie DO EEET I was totally expecting Peggy to be all over Ted and not kick him out. She wants a guy so, so, so bad.
Maggie: Can we talk for a moment about her amazing pant suit?
Arsenic Pie Or she thinks she does.
Clovis: I loved her line about "Well, isn't it nice for you to have decisions."
Arsenic Pie OMG HER PANTSUIT Yeah, bc she feels like she has no choice.
Clovis: YES! I was saying to AP earlier that it was cool that she was the first woman to see on the show wearing pants to the office.
Arsenic Pie: She has to be a career woman, not because she's Ms. Feminist, but because she knows she can't get married.
Mr. Shaw, you're trying to seduce me.
Arsenic Pie: I hope she takes Don's office. And is like, "This shit is mine."
Clovis: I hope Don has to ask her for it back in season seven and she says no.
Arsenic Pie: Side note: Did Ted get the office that Lane offed himself in? I think he did.
Maggie: Haha. I have a feeling though that Duck might get the office...
Arsenic Pie: Duck owes Peggy.
Maggie: I mean, it is still 1968, I don't know if we'll see a female head of creative.
Arsenic Pie: For sleeping with him.
Maggie: Oh, ew. I kept thinking about that too. Duck and Peggy. Girl has made some bad decisions.
Arsenic Pie: I think she should sell hard for that job. She really has. She really has. I feel Duck owes her.
Clovis: Peggy will still be reporting to Ted, according to Joan. But still, Peggy has pretty well positioned herself. Arsenic Pie Why did they ask him back? They fired his ass. Methinks Ted isn't going to interact with Peggy much.
Maggie: Do you think they will split next season between NYC and LA?
Clovis: They didn't ask him back - he was bringing in the other candidate that Roger chatted up in the Detroit airport back a few episodes ago.
Arsenic Pie: And she will end up ostensibly in charge and then unofficially in charge and then in charge. Ooohhh. Okay, I missed that part. But he'll worm his way back into their good graces.
Clovis: Oh totally. Duck is kinda slimey.
Maggie: KINDA?
Arsenic Pie: Duck is way smarmy.
Clovis: Heh. Word.
Arsenic Pie: They should have a smarm off
Clovis: Between Duck and Pete?
Arsenic Pie: Between Duck and Bob Benson. BOB
Maggie: Whoever leaves the slicked slime trail wins.
Arsenic Pie: BENSON
Maggie: I love Bob!
Arsenic Pie: GIVE IT UP FOR BOB BENSON
Clovis: BOB BENSON WINS EVERYTHING!!!
Arsenic Pie: How much do you love him???
Maggie: He won a frilly apron! And is Joan's Big Gay Best Friend!
Clovis: Seriously, I loved Bob Benson for his showing up Pete
Maggie: Hahahah, that was amazing. I feel like he could go crazy, ala Single White Female though.
Arsenic Pie: He totally showed him up and he's TOTALLY going to figure out Roger is Kevvy's real daddy, if he hasn't already.
Clovis: The thing about that was that Pete has never had to fight for anything in his life - everything's been handed to him and he doesn't know what it means to actually push for something. Bob clearly has those skills and has been using them for his entire career. Bob is also like the new and improved Don Draper
Maggie: Sidenote: does the agency have ANY kind of vetting process for job applicants??
Arsenic Pie He's Don 2.0. I don't think so, no. I mean, they hired Don.
Maggie: : My point, that is it.
Arsenic Pie: And Peggy got promoted for helping with one or two campaigns.
Clovis: Maybe they should spend less time banging secretaries and more with their HR department
Arsenic Pie: Yeah, but that would take all the fun out of it. I think they just hire people they like and don't look into their resumes.
Maggie: Clearly. I need to work there. I can be Joan 2.0.
Arsenic Pie I want Don's bar.
Clovis: I'll take Roger's. He seems to have a rum thing going on.
Maggie: Well, then that's agreed.
Arsenic Pie: I want to be Scarlett, Pete's beleaguered secretary.
Maggie: When TV Sluts opens their corporate headquarters, we all know our place.
Arsenic Pie I love Roger. He's just such a rake
Maggie: I love John Slattery, the Silver Fox.
Arsenic Pie: Like an unabashed, unapologetic rake.
Clovis: I love how he's becoming outdated and doesn't really let it bother him.
Arsenic Pie: John Slattery ftw.
Clovis: Like, Don's worried about losing his mojo. Roger just figures if the ladies don't get him, that's their loss because he's such a catch.
Maggie: He could not give two shits. He has worn that same three-pieced suit style for 30 years, thank you very much.
Arsenic Pie: This is why we love Roger.
Maggie: That's how I feel about my dating life. (NOT).
Arsenic Pie: Roger is the Honey Badger of Mad Men. Roger don't give a shit.
Clovis: I keep saying that the point of this show is which characters are going to make it through the 60s and which will be tanked. Roger is clearly going to make it, only because he doesn't care.
Maggie: I live in constant fear that Roger will have another heart attack.
Arsenic Pie: I am afraid Ted will kill someone with his plane. Like his wife.
Clovis: Heh. How convenient for Peggy!
Maggie: Or himself?
Arsenic Pie: How much did you love Ken Cosgrove getting Dick Cheneyed? Or all three?
Maggie: Up until this episode, I full on loved Ted. Now not so much. Poor Ken.
Arsenic Pie. I know. Poor Ken.
Clovis: I just want Ken to go write his novel.
Maggie: Remember when he had to give up his writing? Arsenic Pie: I thought he was dead.
Clovis: You know it's what he wants to do.
Maggie: His science fiction novel!
Arsenic Pie: It totally is, but he got married and has to support a kid. Yes!
Maggie: The scene of him tap dancing might be the best thing to ever happen on Mad Men.
Arsenic Pie: Didn't he try to write an episode of Star Trek or am I imagining things? I loved the tap dancing scene.
Clovis: I want him to get it published and then rub it in Pete's face by asking for an endorsement quote for the dust jacket.
Arsenic Pie: He should get an Emmy for that. Oh poor Ken Cosgrove.
Maggie: So, question.
Arsenic Pie: ?
Maggie: Did you all think the season ended on a hopeful note for Don?
Arsenic Pie: I think so.
Maggie: With everything else in free fall, at least he seemed to be opening up to his kids.
Arsenic Pie: He's losing all of his material stuff, but I think he might be able to connect with his kids on some level.
Clovis: I think it ended with him (almost) at rock bottom, almost becoming Dick Whitman again. Whether or not he still has more to fall, I'm not sure.
Arsenic Pie: And his relationship with Betty has improved since the hate sex.
Maggie: But remember how we felt at the end of Season 1, the hopefulness of the Kodak carousel speech? And then that obviously didn't take.
Arsenic Pie: The thing we know about Don is that he can always bounce back.
Clovis: He can bounce back because he always has the trappings of what he believes makes him the impressive man. He's now losing those things.
Maggie: Excellent point. Do you think he could pull a Dick Whitman and now and just leave it all behind and reinvent himself?
Arsenic Pie Right, but I think he has the intellect and fortitude to rise above things, even if he isn't an important Manhattan ad exec. He's done it before. It took major cahones to pretend to be Don Draper in the first place.
Clovis: I think he could, but I don't know if he will. He values himself only in how others see him. He may not be able to pull himself back together without the encouragement of his own youth.
Maggie: I honestly don't know if he would be willing to abandon his kids.
Clovis: Well, Sally maybe. The other two? Who knows?
Maggie: He has had a couple kid revelations this season, like when he took Bobby to the movies.
Clovis: What are their names again? Billy... something.... ;)
Maggie: Sally, Bobby, and Gene.
Arsenic Pie: I feel like if he's more centered if he has people depending on him and he cares about them in a real way, not in an "I have to" way. Well we only care about Sally.
Maggie: Don's just going to return them to the SC&P Prop Department, let's be honest. *shakes head*
Arsenic Pie: Sally's the only one worth keeping.
Maggie: I dunno, I kind of like Bobby.
Clovis: Literally, since the others have been played by multiple actors.
Maggie: He had some interesting things in the Planet of the Apes episode, he seems like a good kid.
Arsenic Pie: I like the new Bobby. I hope he sticks around. Although he looks like a Brady kid to me. He looks like Peter Brady and Opie had a love child.
Clovis: Somehow Sally has grown into a teenager and Bobby is still perennially 8 years old.
Maggie: I....never really paid attention to what he looked like to be honest. Do we think this is it for Don and Megan?
Arsenic Pie: I didn't even know they had a new Bobby until I looked it up. I hope so. I'm tired of Megan. I know what her purpose is on the show. But she is really boring.
Clovis: I was never a big Megan fan. I know she isn't going anywhere because Matthew Weiner is obsessed with her, but I do hope this is the end of the marriage.
Maggie: Huh, I always liked her. Mostly because she didn't put up with Don's shit....at least the stuff she knew about.
Arsenic Pie: I liked her on that level -- the not putting up with Don's shit level -- but I feel like she's the least interesting of the female characters. Yet she gets the most screen time.
Clovis: Agreed.
Maggie: Also, she's Canadian.
Arsenic Pie: Yes, I caught that. Since they mention it.
Clovis: Did we really need a year of her quest to become an actress at the expense of Peggy and Joan?
Arsenic Pie: All the time. I fucking love her mom, though. If for nothing else, Juliette Binoche as Marie is pretty classic.
Maggie: Some follow through with Joan would have been nice. I assume she got Avon, but really they needed more of THAT this season. More Joan, plz.
Arsenic Pie: Yeah, WTF happened with Avon? They just dropped that plotline.
Clovis: OMG SPEAKING OF MOMS - How much did we love the Mother Overboard development?
Arsenic Pie: Did she land the account or what? OMG PETE'S MOM OVERBOARD!!!!!!!!!!
Maggie: Apparently, Matthew Weiner thinks it's obvious to the audience that she got the account.
Clovis: I seriously LOLd at that, you guys.
Maggie: That was ridiculous (Pete's Mom) Poor Pete, he is never going to be able to travel ANYWHERE by air or sea.
Arsenic Pie: That was some legit Downton Abbey realness. PEOPLE DO NOT FALL OFF BOATS.
Clovis: RIGHT!!!!! Maggie: Actually.... It happened on a cruise ship I was on.
Arsenic Pie: Are you serious?
Maggie: Yep.
Arsenic Pie: Did they die?
Maggie: That's the assumption.
Arsenic Pie: Hahahahaha. Omg.
Maggie: If you are in the middle of the ocean and someone comes up missing...
Arsenic Pie: Holy crap.
Clovis: It still happens. proof:
Maggie: I don't think it's actually that uncommon.
Arsenic Pie: Maybe not uncommon, but rare.
Maggie: Especially on cruises with older people. Oops, there goes Grandma!
Clovis: You have to admit, though, it's totally something this show would do. It veers from ultra realism to total absurdity sometimes.
Arsenic Pie: I feel like Pete's mom is going to show up in Venezuela. With a cabana boy.
Maggie: What is the deal with her marrying Manolo??
Clovis: Who's name wasn't even Manolo!
Maggie: Do we think he married and then murdered her for her money??
Arsenic Pie: I just figured Manolo was after her money.
Maggie: I didn't really get what was going on there.
Arsenic Pie: Which Pete and Bud aren't going to let him have.
Clovis: Or because Manolo wanted to stay in the US. Arsenic Pie: If she even has any. Clovis: After all, Manolo knew that Pete was paying all Mother's bills.
Maggie: True. Arsenic Pie: He had to know Mother really didn't have money, or didn't have control of the money. Maybe he's a psychopath.
Maggie: But then why would he marry her? That whole thing was so weird.
Arsenic Pie: And as we know he is gay...
Maggie: Mad Men definitely became more soap operaish, probably because of Megan.
Clovis: Although I feel like that story's likely done. It would be American Horror Story level ridiculous to bring Mother back next season after spending the summer on Gilligan's Island or whatever.
Arsenic Pie: It's totes what happens on soaps.
Clovis: True.
Arsenic Pie: Why doesn't Megan just go to LA?
Clovis: I think she's going to.
Arsenic Pie: Like, she cold leave. No one's stopping her.
Maggie: I think so too. I do think they will have to split the show between LA and NYC.
Arsenic Pie: I was kind of pissed at her for telling Don his kids are screwed up. I mean they are screwed up.
Clovis: Don's pathetic "we'll be bi-coastal" excuse wasn't cutting it for her.
Arsenic Pie: No, she should just go.
Maggie: She instantly felt bad about saying that though. To be fair, they were in the middle of a fight.
Clovis: Yeah, but you know she's been holding that one in a while. She's been overly patient with the kids, Sally in particular, several times.
Arsenic Pie: Well, I can see how she might resent them. Like, Don's left her alone with the kids several times. Several times when she'd been expecting him to be there. And Megan's not really cut out to be a mom. And doesn't want to be, really.
Maggie: Yeah, I thought it was a totally understandable and realistic comment to make in that situation. And so was her response immediately after.
Clovis: Yeah, agreed.
Arsenic Pie: I still want her to leave. ;)
Clovis: I think Megan's generally a nice person. I just am kinda at a loss for what else to do with her story, you know?
Maggie: I guess we'll find out next year!
Arsenic Pie: There's nothing you can do with her, really. She's nice and good.
Maggie: Maybe she'll get hit by lightning.
Arsenic Pie: And that's about it. Or STABBED
Clovis: HAHAHAHA. By Pete's mother
Maggie: Or kidnapped.
Arsenic Pie: Back from Venezuela. AND OMG SHE MISTAKES MEGAN FOR TRUDY.
Clovis: With Manolo's twin.
Arsenic Pie: AND STABS HER.
Maggie: I would watch that show.
Arsenic Pie: I would watch the shit out of that.
Clovis: Agreed a thousand times.
At this point, Maggie Cats had to leave the chat in order to work on her Syfy movie draft, which I can't yet reveal all the secrets of, but I can say that it involves rabid snakes invading Lake Superior. Yes. Rabid. Snakes. You're welcome, America.
Clovis: I totally want to hear what you think of the whole season.
Arsenic Pie: Well, I think it was better than last season. And plenty of OMG and WTF moments to go around. I live for those. But I felt like there should have been more Joan and more Betty.
Clovis: Agreed.
Arsenic Pie: I liked that we saw a lot of Peggy.
Clovis: The women characters are so much more interesting than the men, I think.
Arsenic Pie: But honestly...less Megan.
Clovis: HAHAHA totally. I didn't like how last year became The Megan Show.
Arsenic Pie: Legit. I'm sure she's nice and all, but less Megan. It was The Megan Show. I don't hate her, I just think the other female characters on the show are more interesting. I did like how they focused on Sally. Because she kills it on that show.
Clovis: I feel like Matthew Weiner was tricked out over January Jones and so gave her all this screen time that she hadn't earned because she's not that great of an actress. Then when Jones got a boyfriend that wasn't Weiner, he found another actress to obsess over. Sally is totally the character that you just want to see what happens to her. Like, I really want to see a postscript with a 60-year-old Sally in the modern day and see what becomes of her life.
Arsenic Pie: I feel like he's unnecessarily mean to Peggy. Sally will be divorced three times. With four kids. Three of whom hate her.
Clovis: Exactly. I feel like sometimes Peggy really gets written as the Ball Buster or something.
Arsenic: I feel like JJ is a better actress than Jessica Pare. The thing is, Peggy isn't even a feminist. She wants to get married and have kids. She just can't. Not a feminist in the traditional sense.
Clovis: Yeah, I probably agree. And I don't think JJ is that great. Jessica Pare just doesn't have a lot of talent aside from looking pretty and playing one or two rote emotions. Yeah, true on Peggy.
Arsenic Pie: I don't even think JP is that pretty, honestly. She's horsey. JJ is prettier.
Clovis: It's true.
Arsenic Pie: It is. Girl's got a horse face. Anyway, yeah. Peggy isn't the single-minded career woman who chooses work over family.
Clovis: Seriously. She's getting by a lot on the fact that she speaks French and so has other skills to work with.
Arsenic Pie: She has no choice. If she wants goodies she has to earn them. I get annoyed when she speaks French. It's like they think we forget she's French so they have to remind us.
Clovis: Exactly. Plus, she's willing to do whatever for a man. She was all "Oh, you want to live in a hovel but give me babies, Abe? Okay!"
Arsenic Pie: But Juliette Binoche is hysterical. She is. She will bend over backwards for a guy, unless it's Pete.
Clovis: Haha. Pete.
Arsenic Pie: Hahahaha. Pete.
Clovis: You screwed the pooch on that one, buddy.
Arsenic Pie: Eventually, I will feel sorry for Pete. That day has not arrived.
Clovis: God I hate watching Pete and his tantrums. I mean, I like how he's written because it's good that the audience is allowed to dislike him and he is given depths. But dude.
Arsenic Pie: I felt so bad for his mom. He was so mean to her. I don't even dislike Pete. I think he's hilarious.
Clovis: Can I also say that I just really want Bob Benson to totally smack Pete down?
Arsenic Pie: Oh, totally. Bob Benson is my new hero. That actor reminds me of Jason Sudeikis so I have a hard time taking Bob Benson seriously.
Clovis: Vincent Kartheiser does a really wonderful job of showing how false Pete is when he's trying to be smarmy. He also plays Pete as someone who totally idolized Don Draper without understanding that he's looking in the wrong direction of history. Ironically, Bob is the character that is most like Don, but is doing Don Draper better than Don Draper does right now.
Arsenic Pie: They should make a Bob Benson action figure.
Clovis: I would buy that action figure. Especially if it came with the self-help records.
Arsenic Pie: And the headphones. Someone put us in charge of AMC merch.
Clovis: Right?!?!
Arsenic Pie: I love how Bob is another Don Draper, and it disgusts Pete so much to meet people like Don and Bob. Because as you say, Pete has had everything handed to him. And Don and Bob may lie, but they work for what they have.
Clovis: And Pete sees them as being not worthy because they aren't the right kind of person.
Arsenic Pie: Yes, and also because he's puritanical and sees himself as the moral center. Whereas everyone else is morally bankrupt.
Clovis: Despite being equally as bankrupt as everyone else.
Arsenic Pie: Or more so.
Clovis: "Know thyself" is not advice he ever thought worth taking, clearly.
Arsenic Pie: Pete justifies everything in his head, and when things go wrong for him, then he thinks other people are out to get him. Like, he would not take the time to get adequate care for his mother, so he hires Manolo. Then blames Bob for things going haywire.
Clovis: That's totally his MO - take the easy way out that will get him the most benefit for the least work and then never accept responsibility. That particular track was brought out most i thought when he was one of the biggest advocates of prostituting Joan out so that they could get a wealthy client.
Arsenic Pie: Oh, he was all for that. And Don was against it. Don is the only guy in that office who has never hit on Joan. He either doesn't sexualize her or he respects her, or both. Well maybe with the exception of Bert Cooper, but I doubt his engines fire anymore.
Clovis: Exactly. The one time he sorta kinda did (when he took her out to drive around in the jaguar) even then it wasn't really something he was aiming for. And Joan, to her credit, refers to Don as "irresistible", but can resist him perfectly fine herself because she knows what it would be like to be with him.
Arsenic Pie: It's so weird how he's never disrespected her, when practically every man disrespects Joan.
Clovis: I wonder if that's because, despite his own treatment of women, he knows what it's like to be around women who have to work for afford their lives.
Arsenic Pie: I feel like he respects Joan, and he doesn't respect women in general. But he doesn't respect Peggy.
Clovis: I mean, Joan's no prostitute, even that one client aside, but there are similarities. Yeah, true. But he kinda does - he values her a lot. He just doesn't know how to show it. His need to manipulate her always wins out.
Arsenic Pie: He treats Peggy the way he treats his male colleagues. And Peggy takes it personally.
Clovis: My favorite scene in the entire series so far is the one last season where she tells him she's leaving and for the first time, he actually shows affection to her, partially as a tactic, but also because he knows that he's lost her and he'll never get her back, really.
Arsenic Pie: I guess I should say he doesn't treat Peggy with the same respect he shows Joan. He won't. Don was her mentor and he didn't give her what she felt she was entitled to. Now I think she's just going to take it. Instead of waiting for a man to give it to her.
Clovis: I hope so. I mean, It's easy to make Peggy the stand-in for feminism when, as you say, she isn't, really. But she's one of the characters that I really like, so I really want her to come out on top of this.
Arsenic Pie: She's way not a stand-in for feminism. I was really hoping things would work out with Ted. Then I realized what a tool he is.
Clovis: What about that massive turn around?
Arsenic Pie: She's the Edith.
Clovis: It only took him, what, half a day after sleeping with Peggy to be all like "shit, I've got to go to California. Haha, she so is.
Arsenic Pie: Ikr. First he was like, "I don't love my wife. I love you." Then he figured he had to stay with her. Out of what? Pity? Inertia? I feel like Peggy can't catch a break.
Clovis: Little of column A, little of column B?
Arsenic Pie: Maybe.
Clovis: I also found it interesting that this is the first time we've seen Peggy really play up her sex appeal. Arsenic Pie: HAHA I LOVED THAT
Clovis: Peggy NEVER toys around with sex, probably because of what happened with Pete.
Arsenic Pie: When she walked into that office full of dudes.
Clovis: But she did this time and did it FULL FORCE
Arsenic Pie: AND SHE WAS DRESSED LIKE A PLAYBOY BUNNY. No, she is all business, all the time. I thought that was awesome. She owned that shit. And you know it is prolly the first time people like Cutler took any notice of her.
Clovis: Yeah, exactly. Also, fucking Harry Crane. That guy can't resist throwing in a stupid, sexist statement, can he?
Arsenic Pie: No, he really cannot
Clovis: He refers to every woman as a "sex kitten" if they do anything more than be dumpy.
Arsenic Pie: I like how we've never seen his wife. Like ever.
Clovis: That said, I actually kind of like Harry. I just think he's a putz.
Arsenic Pie: Harry's an idiot, but a lovable one.
Clovis: I know, right? We've seen the secretaries he's slept with, but never his family.
Arsenic Pie: Supposedly, he has a wife. I don't think we've seen Ken's wife, either. We've met Trudy.
Clovis: And you just know that he was angling to become partner so he could run the LA office. Now I guess he's out of that running.
Arsenic Pie: We've met Trudy a bunch. Nah, there are too many sharks in that office for Harry to be in charge of anything. He doesn't have the balls.
Clovis: I love Trudy, BTW. But then, it's Allison Brie, who everyone loves.
Arsenic Pie: Who doesn't love Allison Brie? No one. That's who.
Clovis: Only a fucking monster, that's who.
FUCK YOU, SARAH MACLACHLAN.
Arsenic Pie: HER LAST NAME IS CHEESE. A DELICIOUS CHEESE. I also love Trudy. I loved it when she kicked Pete out.
Clovis: I KNOW RIGHT!!!
Arsenic Pie: SHE WAS SO PISSED.
Clovis: I know we haven't seen everything from her perspective, but she's also the only one who's kicked out the husband and not given a fuck about it. She's been all like "screw you guys, I'm going home" over this and content to raise her kid on her own.
Arsenic Pie: And she was one of the most conservative and traditional women on the show. At least, that's how she was presented. She did her little early 60's housewife thing. She even told Pete when she kicked him out that she'd expected that he'd cheat on her.
Clovis: She's barreling into the 1970's full steam ahead.
Arsenic Pie: She is Trudy. Hear her RAWR. It's going to be all Garp, all the time at that house now.
Clovis: For realz.
Arsenic Pie: Fo shiznit.
At this point, both Clovis and I had to leave the chat in order to don our parkas and grab our harpoons en route to Siberia to save some wayward nerpas, who were in an advanced state of distress.
EHERMAGEHRD. THA CUHTE!
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