Pbenjay's Blog

YOU ARE NOT A GOOD PERSON

My goodness, is that all she could muster up??  We know Don for who he is ; and true to  the tried and true corollary that women love bad boys, he is the best looking bad boy on the small screen these days.  It’s just so obvious – he’s an open book;  He drinks publicly,  screws around publicly, he bullies his team, begrudgingly offers feeble praise once in a while,  drinks like  a fish and smokes like a chimney.  Don is arrogant-perhaps that’s part of the carefully constructed facade that he hides his true self-doubting, self-conflicted  persona.  After all, can you imagine leading a life that is entirely constructed on a lie and a deception and locking it all up inside, drowning the truth in alcohol and smothering his past with Lucky Strikes?

And yet we lust after him – why? He certainly isn’t the kind of man we’d  want to marry, or have our daughter marry! Yet seductive, handsome,  and reeking  with animal magnetism.  He’s not funny, almost humorless, and seems to have no interests beyond getting laid and getting accounts – in that order.  And yet…

"right, no sports heros!"

Overall the episode was all about Peggy.  She is rapidly becoming one of the guys – note her lying down on the couch in her office.  Hey the guys do it all the time.  She meets some new friends, gets hit on by a lesbian and declares she has a boyfriend who is presently renting it (her vagina). Peggy ran through a gamut of emotions last night;  she is affronted by the news that Pete is going to be a father and in Peggy character true to form, she pulled herself up and offered sincere congratulations to her former lover.  She is excited by the daring of her new buds;  rule-breaking, left wing liberal artsy fartsy crowd.  How poignant was it when as she departs for lunch with the new friends and Pete greets the stodgy big wigs of Vicks, they exchange a long and meaningful glance? The answer  – VERY! Was that scene all about their unresolved sexual tension and bewilderment as how to handle it (both are clueless) OR was it as my friend Gail says – a contrast in the changing course of the business with the young and the reckless and the old guard?

Tune in next week, it’s sure to heat up and get better!!