Mad Men season 7 thread

It goes the other way, Don is marginalized. Lou insults him demeans his ideas, Peggy won't work with him and is jealous the other creatives are looking to him. By the end of the season Don is drunk and living in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel until his money runs out.

 

Someone posted on here a while ago that maybe Don ends up working for Peggy. Maybe this happens when Peggy gets fed up, starts her own company, and, in a desperate move, hires Don, who had been fired.

 

I wonder if their move to get a computer takes them to UCLA's computer department, which in 1969 was involved in this https://alumni.ucla.edu/share/ucla-history/tmih-oct-internet.aspx

 

I assume this half-season is going to end around the time of the moon landing, but who knows where it goes after that.

Did we get a clear indication of what month last night's episode took place in? I'm guessing early spring, given that Bobby's class took an outdoor field trip in suburban New York.

 

Episode two was Valentine's Day so you're probably right on with the time frame.

 

Things we've established on this thread: I cannot remember last names so I replace them with disparate parts of my brain apparently...

Or maybe I've re-cast the show with Lou Adler guest-starring...

Also, Adler produced The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live film and the episode ended with...

 

Not really sure where the Betty subplot fit into the larger narrative. How many times to we have to see that she's a selfish child?

 

A five hour snit because she didn't get her sandwich? Man, they've made some of the characters so infantile. Peggy as well.

I feel proud because my wife and I finally caught up (started watching season 1 in November).

 

I'm tired of Betty too. But are we really able to relate to people like her today? I mean, she was a housewife with no real ambition except to marry well and have a weekly cocktail lunch with the girls. Social consciousness was a foreign concept to such a woman.

She'd be burned on a cross by today's females, but she was a very real part of the '60s.

 

THis is the same woman who fucked a stranger in the back of a bar. She's come along way from prurient to prude

 

It's not so much prude as socially unaware. She was never socially aware ... or self-aware.

 

Betty's conversation with Amber from House (I have no idea what her character's name on Mad Men is) was interesting, but the bit with Bobby kind of ruined the message of that scene.

Peggy's going through some stuff, clearly, and hopefully when she finds out Don was behind all those ideas, and that Lou didn't submit her ad for selfish reason not for the other guy's $$ concerns, she'll walk back to awesomeness.