David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. "Mad Men," it's great, you should watch it, etc., etc.
Hacking everything out for last Sunday’s Fall-TV preview prevented my weekly tub-thumping for “Mad Men” last week (though a commenter in the previous week’s entry provided a mini-recap of the episode’s most resonant moment), but we’re back this week, only to ponder the question: Will Don Draper (Jon Hamm) jump ship from Sterling Cooper?
Tonight, Don is recruited by a larger ad agency, McCann Erickson, and the recruiter approaches him via his wife Betty (January Jones):
“Did anyone ever tell you you’re a dead ringer for Grace Kelly?”
Betty: “They used to.”
Betty’s hired by McCann Erickson to model for a European Coca Cola campaign. Don’s not sure he likes having a working wife.
Meanwhile, the Sterling Cooper guys find an inspired way to sell Nixon via laxatives, and Peggy (Elisabeth Moss), fresh from her triumph in ad writing and her heartbreak from being cruelly dismissed by Pete (Vincent Kartheiser), is losing her heat in the office; one guy refers to her as “a piece of fruit who went real bad real fast and no one got to eat it.”
But tonight’s line of the night goes to Joan (Christina Hendricks), addressing a switchboard operator lamenting her lowly position: “One hour on the Sterling Cooper switchboard would be a Russian novel.”
Again, the women get the short end of the stick, though at episode’s end, Betty does manage to let off a little steam.
- “Mad Men:” 10 tonight, AMC.
Comments
I LOVED the ending of this episode, which I just watched (thank you, TiVo). Betty with the cigarette hanging out of her mouth, shooting her neighbor's birds that had terrorized her children? Fabulous!
Posted by: Suzy Q | September 14, 2007 6:29 PM