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Mad Men, Season 4, Episode 7 (Patreon)

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The Suitcase

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Mad Men, Season 4, Episode 7

The Suitcase

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walder slayyyyy

Oh man, I hate that I can't watch this immediately. One of the very best!!

Actuarial Lurker

The classic episode- perhaps the best of the show and MANY critics rate this as one of the best 5 episodes ever aired on TV- factoring in Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Wire, and The Sopranos

Denisse Brito

This is my favorite episode of this season! 😍

Actuarial Lurker

So now we know Peggy turns 26 on the day of the infamous second Ali-Liston fight in May 1965 and would be 84 now. Don would be 97 and Pete 89

Actuarial Lurker

So which is worse- Roger in Blackface at Derby Day in 1963 or the $1 Bill comment from Ms. Blankenship in 1965?

Actuarial Lurker

We finally see why Duck is a raging alcoholic- he killed 17 men in hand to hand combat in the summer 1945 battle of Okinawa- one of the most infamous battles of the Pacific War- with trenches, booby trapped tunnels that had to be cleared out with flame throwers, civilians armed with IEDs and suicide packs and kids and women armed with pitchforks covered with feces. This is where kamikazes took out much of the US and British naval landing fleet of the combined ops while the Marines spent 3 months in trench warfare on the island...there were TWENTY THREE Congressional Medals of Honor awarded for this protracted battle....so in a certain way Duck is way more of a man than Don who faked his way into his identity and purple heart ever was or might be...we see how Duck and Freddie were destroyed by the PTSD, but Freddie saved himself with AA- a blessing in disguise of being fired or he might have died- and Roger still drinks like a fish and is hung up on WWIi. Still can't forgive what Duck did when he dumped his dog Chauncey on the street just to start drinking in Season 2 before approaching PPL for the sale- but he was that much of a wreck as a traumatized veteran that he valued the booze over his pet. Reminds me of how General Patton slapped around that soldier for having "battle fatigue" in real life and shown in the movie Patton- "real men" just fought and killed and then drank away the pain....they ALL needed therapy- not just Don and Betty!

Actuarial Lurker

And Peggy becomes the new Ana Draper as his confidant- she finally becomes his equal as they have a similar night out of confiding in each other- a deeper version of what Don had with Lane with the drunken night at the monster movie, steak house, comedy show and prostitutes. We learn Peggy's Catholic mother thought Don not Pete was the father of the baby she gave away for adoption, that the whole office DID think Peggy slept her way to the top and why Allison impacted Peggy so much a few weeks back when she assumed they had BOTH slept with Don.

Actuarial Lurker

Emmy-level acting from Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss in the last part of the show

Actuarial Lurker

Best scene is Don holding Peggy's hand as a friend as a call back to him slapping her hand away in the pilot of the series. Peggy is no longer trying to be his "girlfriend" but his protege

Actuarial Lurker

Peggy is Don jr- she lives through her work and not the dork boyfriend who invites the mother Peggy hates to an intimate dinner. And she wants credit for the GloCoat CLIO since she basically thought of the idea- her identity IS through her work and not through a man. Just like the psychologist Faye Miller

Actuarial Lurker

After Don berates her- Peggy cries in the bathroom- a callback to the Ladies Room episode from Season 1- more master class story weaving

Actuarial Lurker

So when Roger brings up Lyle Evans to Cooper in the Chrysanthemum episode about the Honda motorcycles he was basically saying Cooper had no balls- but Roger did (since in his mind he was willing to throw away business to honor his fallen friends) from the War...another master writing reference

Actuarial Lurker

One could say that Anna appeared carrying away a suitcase full of Don's "past baggage", smiling, Jesus-like, (kind of like the Peggy popsicle ad), absolving him of his sins. It's now up to him "born-again" to choose whether to spiral further, trust Peggy as a new Anna, whether to get a new family or rely on coworkers like the maturing Pete or level-headed Lane, or cut-throat Cooper to stay clean and bury himself in his work... or do something unexpected the way he used the famous Ali photo to make a left turn

Denisse Brito

This episode is a masterpiece. One of my favorite of this show. I love Don and Peggy’s relationship, and I enjoyed seeing them interact like this. It was so casual. I love Ms Blanketship, and her awful comments. I physically cringed at Trudy saying that comment in the bathroom. The thing is that I get that comment all the time. I want to know why is it so offensive to be over 25 and unmarried? Even now in 2023, in the United States in a big city, it’s a tragedy if you’re “single”. Question tho… Does anybody actually like dating? I hate it lol I want to be in a relationship but I refuse to play the “musical chairs” game. I love Peggy and I relate to her so much. As a woman there’s so many things I’m supposed to want but don’t. This show does an excellent job showing complex human emotions and dealing with topics that we still deal with at this time.

Denisse Brito
>>119662573

That was great! I love how their conversation all through the episode is about their personal lives. Don’s conversation with Peggy in this episode is the most we’ve seen him share with anybody. It is a big change from the very beginning to this :)

Denisse Brito
>>119661353

Derby Day, 100%. I’m Ms Blankenship’s #1 fan. That woman is so messed up and hilarious because of how bad she is. I’m not saying that older people can’t learn new values or new way of thinking but I’ve been trying to teach my mother to use less offensive words and she always reverts back to using them after talking to someone from our country 😑 For Roger to do what he did, he had to decide to it, then buy the paint, put the paint on, look at the mirror and walk out, then imitate that awful Jim Crow character…

Actuarial Lurker
>>119666612

My wife was 36 and I was 30 when we started dating and were 37 and 31 when we got married, and had our 25th anniversary last year....my grandfather (on my mother's side) told me wait until your 30 to get serious because before then- especially men but both people in the couple are too naive to know what they want out of life- where to live, if they want to focus on work or fun, how they handle money if they want kids etc...once you get your 20s out of the way most people, in my experience, are a hell of a lot more mentally and financially stable.

Youtalkingtome
>>119661478

Yeah Duck became far more tragic in this. He's less pathetic and more sympathetic. This whole generation is one big poster child for therapy.

Ben Clifford

The mouse - I don't know exactly, but Don remarks "I think there's a way out of this place we don't know about" or whatever, when the mouse escapes. In the context pf the episode showing how the ad industry destroys people, but the mouse escapes?

Actuarial Lurker
>>119703449

I always thought it was a reference to Conrad Hilton- in the episode where the British exec "Guy" has his life ruined by getting run over by the John Deere- Don is with Connie looking at the ad where Hilton had the hobo mouse in each hotel and Don "gives him a free one" and says no-one wants to think their hotel room is full of mice. On a certain level Don thinks his own life is "infested" and then the apparition of the just deceased Anna with the suitcase shows up and after the cry in front of Peggy he is all cleaned up- no puke covered shirt and the Samsonite ad is complete...he has in sense fumigated his life and the mouse showed that even his nice sparkly modern office at the new firm had become dirty and infested with the garbage of his life before the transformative death

Weird Magic

I've officiated HS and College sports since 1992 - one of the things that has changed in the past 10 years or so is how many people come up to me/us before or after the game and say "thanks for doing this" or words to that effect. It's more like they're saying "thank you for your service" to a military person, which feels odd. I'm reffing a game, not protecting the country. Don't get me wrong, their intent is pure/good I'm not saying it isn't....I always thought.... That's what the money is for! I guess subconsciously that came from this episode. I get paid for this - not naive about what the job is - my ask isn't for thanks, it's to treat officials with respect as a professional courtesy and don't assume I want the other team to win (because for God's sake no official does - not kidding). As for the rest - I cash a check for that. :) Originally airing on September 5, 2010, 'The Suitcase' is Episode 7 of Season 4 of Mad Men. It is the 46th episode overall and has an IMDB rating of 9.7, placing it as the #1 ranked episode of this season and #1 out of all the episodes shown so far.

Weird Magic
>>119735717

In re-reading this, wanted to point out that the "money" referring to is the paycheck, NOT a bribe from the person thanking me.....just wanted to nip that in the bud with how cynical people can be lol

Robert Bauman

I have the benefit of having seen the entire series before, and it's interesting that this episode (arguably the show's best) is the exact halfway point of the series chronologically (Episode 46 out of 92). It also is probably the most candidly Don has ever spoken with anyone on the show. Not surprising that Peggy is the one who can actually get through to him, there has always been an unspoken understanding of sorts between them. Does this snap him out of the spiral? Also I believe this was a money-saving "bottle" episode, which is why they are in the office almost the whole time. Shows how strong the writing is that this episode is as highly regarded as it is.

Ben Clifford

Also what are you guys gonna do now that Mad Men's apparently no longer on AMC+?

Youtalkingtome
>>119751584

I love bottle episodes. It's like, we don't have enough money for this episode so we better write our asses off.

sam bristow

This ep was the best hour or so of television ever written, directed, and acted in history.

sam bristow

Also who knew Daniel LaRusso’s mom was such a hellcat in her day?. lol. I’d pay $100 for a paperback edition of Sterling’s Gold.

Anna

This ending Kills me