Mad Men Season 5 - Page 16

I just watched it yesterday while I was on the plane. Peggy's expectant smile dissolving into a tacit "Yes" - I want to eat was depressing. But not as depressing as the scene at the end with everyone at the table except for Sterling who is enjoying his LSD and divorce renaissance. I was surprised Mona made an appearance. She is more tanned than before if I remember.

The black tie event was nice, although with Sterling trying to court business through his ex-wife and Draper getting the cold shoulder by the bigwigs it might be Sterling who signs the big client in the end.

Campbell has recovered to be his condescending self and something between Megan's father and her reaction to Peggy after signing Heinz is going to continue to exasperate her ugly duckling status at the firm. At least Draper got the message from Cooper and is paying more attention to work. The Heinz pitch was very polished. And maybe in the end it was exactly Peggy's approach - telling the client this is what he needs except there's a big difference when Peggy tells it versus her boss.

About Sally's scene being all sexual - I guess that's true. But all the kids are getting less screen time now since the divorce and the sexuality theme is probably the most dramatic thing to highlight.

I'm trying to think of old Sally and Bobby storylines. Sally thinking the baby was her grandfather or Bobby breaking stuff at random - but again, since the divorce, there's not a lot of family scenes and Sally's sexual exploits are probably the most compelling whenever the show shifts there (especially since Bobby changed 3+ times since the series started)

About lefty's comments on whether the show is authentic - for every testimonial that says Mad Men is pure fiction, there's another person from another company who says the booze fueled lunches and nonchalant attitude to sex is common. But I reckon it's no different than now where company cultures differ. My company breaks out six bottles of wine and a case of a beer for every staff lunch. In the same line of business, half a block away where my old work mate toils, they're all dry.