Mad Men

Equally important, Betty fell in love with Don. Will she find that she doesn't much care for Dick, this dirt-poor son of a whore?

 

Cool video tours of the set:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/26/mad.men.set/index.html

 

yes, that is the important question. dick and don are the same person. they both fell for betts. she's the one facing the question now, not him.

 

Dick and Don are not close to the same person.

Don never would have confessed to Betty. He'd have read her the riot act for sticking her nose where it didn't belong.

 

Don leaves it to Dick when there is no out.

 

Loved that Peggy was just there for a little comic relief, not some big crusading point, in the focus group scene:

Don, as folks behind the glass get increasing agitated, via the intercom speaker: ``Turn it off."

Peggy: ``I can't. It's happening now."

Don: ``The sound. Turn the sound off."

 

Um, but the man doesn't literally become a different person because of his dual identity as Don/Dick. They're different facets of one man's personality. I would agree that the Dick side of him loves Betty more than the Don side, but his situation now isn't anywhere near as radically new as what Betty is facing. She has to decide whether she still loves this man now that she knows his King of the World persona is centrally fraudulent.

 

Seeing uber-confident Don Draper take off his mask to become Dick Whitman is some of the most solid acting I've seen. Draper is so cool - Whitman is so needy, and Hamm does it so easily.
A fantastic episode. If he "becomes" Dick Whitman again in his family life - no way he cheats on Betty again. Draper hits everything that moves.

 

Draper doesn't hit everything that moves. He has standards. Like no one he works with, although he made that one mistake with the woman who owned the department store. And he seems to really like intelligent, accomplished women, which may be what is missing in the relationship with Betty. He likes having her take care of his kids but he misses that woman of the world career girl.

 

Agreed

In some ways you could see his marrying Betty as a good career movie. Back then it was considered very important to have a socially adept wife--being goregeous like Betty never hurt either. Remember, outside her house she is Mrs. Don Draper.

And every woman Don's had an affair with, right from Midge to the teacher, has been a symbol of the burgeoning feminist movement. The Feminist Mystique was published in 1963.

 

He also seems to have a preference for brunettes in his extra-curricular activities.

 

Does that include that very-young daughter of the European weirdos while he was on that business trip turned out-of-town bender?