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Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 3 (Patreon)

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Actuarial Lurker

And Don returns with some UGLY work condition triggers that could get him to lose his partnership shares....so that answers your prior questions about how they are TRYING to get rid of him without having to buy him out. Note how Roger tells the others "Do you want to run into Don at a presentation with Mary Wells"? Mary Wells was a actual "glass ceiling" shattering female creative director in the late 60s who formed her own firm with groundbreaking creative work that many think that the character of Peggy was loosely modeled on....

Actuarial Lurker

Don is watching the 1969 film "Model Shop": IMDB: George Matthews is a young man who is having a bittersweet affair with a French divorcée in Los Angeles. Waiting to be drafted, he is unable to commit himself to anything or anybody, including his girlfriend Gloria. While trying to raise money to prevent his car from being repossessed, George is attracted to Lola, a Frenchwoman who works in a "model shop" (an establishment which rents out beautiful pin-up models to photographers). So the movie hints at his unwillingness to commit to move to LA and be with Megan and try to keep his job in NY

Actuarial Lurker

So Megan has thrown away her "small screen success" in NYC to be a desperate insecure "stalker" who is demanding multiple auditions from LA casting directors and creating a bad name for herself....

Actuarial Lurker

ALL Lou cares about is whether Stan took an hour or so to draw the perfume ad illustration...Don had to explain to Lane why they waste so many pencils and reams of paper "brain-storming" and Lou is head of creative and doesn't get it....

Jesus

Loved seeing class clown Roger drop the goddamn hammer like that

Actuarial Lurker

Wh haven't seen the neighborFrancine since Season 4 when Henry didn't want to let Don go to Baby Gene's birthday party and he went anyway...

Actuarial Lurker

So who really went on the "Field Trip" of the title? Betty chaperoning Bobby at the class trip to the farm or Don chaperoning Megan who is blowing her career and who he views as a kid?

Actuarial Lurker

You spoke too soon before "Petty Betty" ruins the trip over a bag of candy....

Actuarial Lurker

HE got fired in November 1968 and its April 1969, so its been 6 months

Robert Bauman

I love the last scene. The partners are clearly trying to both make it easy to push Don out while also having him kiss the ring and making it as humiliating as possible for him to work there (there's no reason to have him report to Lou other than that). I was waiting for a classic Draper flex/dressing down, like something he would have done to Duck or Pete in the early seasons to show everyone who's the man. That resigned "...okay" we got from him instead shows what a different place he's in at this point.

Robert Bauman

Having his shares on the line and reporting to Lou just seems vindictive. I get he's been a liability but man... Also lol Roger for failing to mention to anyone that he told Don to come back. Another example of him just kind of doing whatever without any consequences

Youtalkingtome
>>140683984

Seriously. I can empathize with her being angry in the moment. Pouting and being boorish about it all day is infuriating.

Youtalkingtome
>>140685336

You and I are in agreement. Don is playing it risky, but I would have told the partners no deal and forced them to buy me out. Those stipulations just feel like a trap.

Actuarial Lurker
>>140685336

Don probably thin ks he can outwit them since he has conned people and been lucky enough to get away with it since Korea. He has to be back in that office if he wants to take people down....the question is HOW?

Chris

As Joe and Kevin pointed out, Don signing this terrible contract flips the situation in season 1 when he refused to sign, which is why “If 6 Was 9” by Jimi Hendrix is the perfect song to end the episode on.

Actuarial Lurker
>>140681985

traveling to people's houses, barging in and demanding new auditions? That's what her agent told Don on the phone...

tom

It's entertaining seeing the differences in your opinions of Don, from just a few episodes fully keeping his flaws in mind to now being on a warpath to defend him and even the idea of him burning the company if they bought him out. I think he is in an unfortunate situation, but they were within their rights after what he did and now they're doing what humans do by seeing him as hostile therefore being hostile back. He's their friend/coworker but also a liability. I can see a situation where Don would do the same to someone whose creativity he respects but can't trust with clients. Either wya, Roger not telling anyone and embarrassing both sides was hilarious, though On Don doing good in S4 until the end, I partially agree but also remember he was drinking heavily, sleeping around, had anger issues, was going through grief and a divorce... I see it more as marrying Megan was a backslide into a comfortable situation he was used to, as opposed to the chaos and uncertainty of his single life. It's not that he was doing good until the marriage unless you see it in a really grand scale. Because truthfully, he was miserable. He journaled and went swimming, but what did that really do? I see S4 as him getting worse before he get better, but in typical Don Draper "Move forward" fashion, he tried to rush the process and in turn ended up interrupting what he was going through, resetting the loop and causing what we saw in the last two seasons. He was a wreck, but he was a new wreck, and one he needed to work through rather than ignore. I also don't know if Don said the right thing at the wrong time with Megan, as you suggested. He was laying on the gaslighting a bit, and only admitted things when he was forced into it rather than having an interest in telling the truth. Same as him calling her after Roger tells him he can come back to work. He saw it as simply as she pushed him away when he admitted to being fired, but he got his job back so they should be good right?

tom

I forgot how brutal Peggy is this episode. I personally like angry Peggy so I didn't find her unlikeable as opposed to the previous episode. To me, I read her this episode as not really being mad because of her grievances, but more so sticking to her word and refusing to fall for the usual Don Draper charm like the rest of her peers. She's defiant and prides herself on being the only one to see through bullshit.

tom

Now to talk about Betty, and because it's me you know it'll be the longest comment. Still, I think it's an interesting plot this episode. As I've been saying, every time Betty 'redeems' herself there's always that one thing that brings you back to earth with her flaws. It's always a shame but it keeps it realistic and true to her character. This episode's one is so disappointingly terrible and inexplicable, coming from seemingly nowhere, but that final scene we get brings it all home for me. "Why don't they love me?". Is it a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts? She feels inadequate and so she lashes out that her children aren't behaving the way they should be... Which made me realize the issue is she conflates obedience with love, and it's definitely because of the way her parents raised her. It explains so much of the increasing alienation she feels as her children grow more agency. She even recognizes this on some level, because when Henry appeals to the fact that Gene loves her, she blankly retorts that "It's just a matter of time". I feel so bad for Bobby, and "I wish it was yesterday" is a heartbreaking line, but my heart truly breaks for the tragedy of Betty placing her head against Gene's after matter-of-factly stating he will soon stop loving her, just as the rest of her children. And she's resigned herself to this fate, believing there's nothing she can do about it. For some reason she can't see that she clearly bonded with Sally last season, or how Bobby's eyes shimmered with excitement at spending the day with her. It goes to show how the way she was raised continues to doom her: her self-worth, her pettiness, her concept of love. Of family and womanhood, as we see when she pushes back on her friend -- who remember used to deride their divorced neighbor Helen ("that sad little job at the jewlry store") yet years later is now proud of being a working woman -- and believing she couldn't live like that.

Youtalkingtome
>>140720303

That's not an unreasonable takeaway. I just think there might have been a better way for her to convey that. I don't even mean nicer (Don was rough on Peggy plenty of times), but more clear as to what she really meant.

Youtalkingtome
>>140720373

She isn't incredibly unlike Don in that regard, just not knowing what healthy love is or how to accept and express it. Bobby giving away her sandwich was a silly childish action, but she let it ruin their entire day (which, of course, she blamed Bobby for). I don't blame her for her frustration in the moment. But she had every opportunity here to calm down, eat something, and make up with her obviously distraught son. We haven't seen her behave this childishly for quite some time, but you're right. It is true to her character to show these relapses into selfishness self-pity.

Weird Magic
>>140685336

He does have another job offer in case he gets fired, correct? Don has a safety net to say "yes" to this for now

Weird Magic
>>140720303

Love this take! If Don says something like this it's fine, but if Peggy says it then she needs to find a better way to do it?

Weird Magic
>>140720373

Although I liked the line, I thought it was terrible writing. They gave a 10(?) year character (that earlier in the episode didn't understand he couldn't trade his mom's sandwich for gumdrops) the intellectual depth of answering the question with a deep moral understanding of what the question really meant. A 10-year old answers that question - I traded her sandwich for gumballs, not I wish it was yesterday. Great line, great response - completely out of place for this character to say it which I believe is really really bad writing - like they wanted a much deeper meaning/symbolism to what was happening than what they should have been able to do.

Weird Magic

Originally airing on April 27, 2014, 'Field Trip' is Episode 3 of Season 7 of Mad Men. It is the 81st episode overall and has an IMDB rating of 8.6, placing it as the #7 ranked episode of this season and #22 out of all the episodes shown so far.

Robert Bauman
>>140681985

Isn't the reason Megan is in LA because Don told her they were moving to California, so she quit her job on the soap opera, only for him to change his mind after the fact? She seems kind of desperate for work but that's a pretty harsh read of her situation and who is at fault imo

Actuarial Lurker
>>140681985

Yes-100% agree that Don wrecked her career. That doesn't mean that traveling to the home of the casting agents is a not a very smart way to deal with that. She's an adult. She should have come back to NYC and tried to get back on TV since she DID have a resume from that soap. I always thought that when she couldn't handle the "twins" twist on her TV show it actually proved that she wasn't good enough to make it in LA

Youtalkingtome
>>140720262

It did feel like he was gaslighting, is he even aware that he is doing it? He's clueless when it comes to being emotionally open.

tom
>>140720373

Or he's sad and ashamed and so he expresses his feelings as purely as they are? Children say oddly philosophical things all the time

Hawaiian Shirt Funeral

"I know how I want you to see me." About as close as you can come to summing up Don in a single sentence thus far in the show.

heheheheheh

Notice how Betty was listing all the great things her new husband is doing, only for Francine to come out as a proud working woman. Times have indeed changed and Betty is old fashioned. Her going to the field trip with Bobby was only to prove a point to Francine, that yes I still have an important role as a mom. She wouldn't have gone, if it weren't for their conversation and it hitting a nerve. From Mad Style: "She was judging Francine from head to toe for lacking in the fulfillment of her maternal duties. Of course Francine did a delicious passive-aggressive turn by deliberately calling her “Betty Draper” in response to Betty’s condescending, “Maybe I’m old-fashioned.” That was Francine’s way of saying, “Shyeah. ‘old fashioned.’ Remind me again how many husbands you’ve had, bitch?” Betty always reacts to things instead of taking action independently. And she’s highly influenced by the people around her; especially the women. She dyed her hair and gained weight in a mad dash to turn herself into Henry’s mother, for instance. Here, she’s impulsively signing up to chaperone so that she can feel good about her choices …"