Don Draper, the Mad Men’s creative Director at Sterling Cooper has been approached by Conrad Hilton to pitch an advertisement for free – obviously an opportunity for Don to bring in the hotel magnate as a client. Peggy has been offered a position at the company Buck Phillips moved to after he got fired by Lane Pryce. Roger Sterling and Bertram Cooper have been made aware how much they are now the pawns of the London office. This sure is a set up for a tremendous second half of the season! (I wish I could watch all episodes in just one sitting!) Walking into the office a little late, 9:30am, Don finds Conrad Hilton, “Connie,” waiting for him in his chair with a personal matter he didn’t want to settle over the phone... Unmarried Connie has an involvement, his significant needs are being met, but his eyes are starting to wander... What is he to do? He’s giving Don his three New York hotels to look after! Don gets all cheers at the office, and Sterling Cooper offer him a three-year contract with a salary raise and a bonus. (He’s been without a contract to free himself of obligations.)
The core of this episode, though, revolves around three subplots. In one, Don is chatting to Sally’s teacher, who’s openly flirtatious, while the kids are watching a solar eclipse... After a fight with Bets over his contract, he walks out ... drives off and picks up a couple of hitchhikers going to Niagra Falls ... takes them to a motel, where they drug him with Phenobarbitals and rob him off his money... Next day he signs the contract. The second subplot is about Bets, who’s talking to a political advisor she knows through Don, about preserving the reservoir. It’s clear he likes her, but she doesn’t answer his courtship. And finally there’s Peggy, put down again by Don when she’s asking about the Hilton account, still toying with the idea of Buck’s offer ... and she ends up meeting him in a hotel ... where they make love... Eww. Nice episode, not as good as the previous one, but enough to make me curious about the next!
The core of this episode, though, revolves around three subplots. In one, Don is chatting to Sally’s teacher, who’s openly flirtatious, while the kids are watching a solar eclipse... After a fight with Bets over his contract, he walks out ... drives off and picks up a couple of hitchhikers going to Niagra Falls ... takes them to a motel, where they drug him with Phenobarbitals and rob him off his money... Next day he signs the contract. The second subplot is about Bets, who’s talking to a political advisor she knows through Don, about preserving the reservoir. It’s clear he likes her, but she doesn’t answer his courtship. And finally there’s Peggy, put down again by Don when she’s asking about the Hilton account, still toying with the idea of Buck’s offer ... and she ends up meeting him in a hotel ... where they make love... Eww. Nice episode, not as good as the previous one, but enough to make me curious about the next!
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