As we learned last week, Megan and Don make a terrific pair of salesmen. They start bantering about baked beans or Cool Whip, and before you know it, you've given them all your money. They are the future of American capitalism. Perhaps it's the performance aspect of the bit that reminds Megan how much she loves acting, or maybe it's the stress of finding out that she's really good at something she doesn't truly want to do. Either way, she figures it out pretty quickly. Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce just isn't for her.
Megan's departure from the office feels like just the beginning. Just as Don finally starts to recognize that she's good "at everything," Megan decides to relinquish half of it. She's very good at coming up with copy, crafting pitches, and selling products face to face, but she doesn't want to do it anymore. All of those good traits disappear as she disappears from the office. Who is the Megan Don will come home to now? She'll still be chipper and bright, but she won't fulfill Don's work-romance fantasies anymore. How long will it take for him to lose interest completely?
Peggy can't do a sales pitch, but by my standards, standing here in this whipped cream taste test kitchen, she's the luckiest girl in the world.
On the train to and from work, Pete finally finds his place in life: sitting on the same boring seat in the same boring train car in the same boring train twice a day, next to a life insurance jerk who is equally boring but seems to at least have a girlfriend in the city. You'd think maybe Pete could appreciate finding a suitably boring place to hang out, but no no no. Pete always wants something better. And since he's such a boring person, he always reaches for something pat and pretty because it seems like that's what he should be doing. So he has a brief affair with Life Insurance's wife (played by Stars Hollow bookworm Rory Gilmore), even though it looks a lot like neither of them particularly want to.
Who knows, maybe Rory's brain damaged now and can only be attracted to horrible men. She takes Pete home with her one night because it's very obvious that Pete knows why her husband's not coming home. I guess Rory doesn't quite realize she's taking AMERICAN PSYCHO home with her, or at least she won't realize it until Pete shows up for dinner at their house the next night and threatens to drag her to a hotel room. Excellent, Pete, truly excellent. I'm impressed with your ability to round out the profile of a serial-killer-to-be so fully.
Since Rory doesn't show up to the hotel, I'm assuming Pete's going to murder her with a chainsaw. But instead, he looks over at her from his car in the parking lot of the train station, where to him it looks like Rory's as in love with him as ever. I honestly wonder if this is a hallucination. Because nothing about Pete's behavior merits any fond memories from ANYONE.
Mad Men spent the week focusing on how annoying it is when women's wants and needs don't line up with the rest of the world's. Don would love it if Megan would just keep pitching ideas with him over dinner with clients. Pete wants Rory Gilmore to become his new concubine. But these women, with their brains and hopes and dreams and whatever, just don't care. They ruin EVERYTHING.
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