Comments on: A Basket of (a hell of a lot more than) Kisses http://madmenmad.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/a-basket-of-a-hell-of-a-lot-more-than-kisses/ The unofficial blog of AMC's Mad Men Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:36:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: teri http://madmenmad.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/a-basket-of-a-hell-of-a-lot-more-than-kisses/#comment-3873 teri Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:41:55 +0000 http://madmenmad.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/a-basket-of-a-hell-of-a-lot-more-than-kisses/#comment-3873 peggy seems to have come from the sticks;it's 1960 & she is smart (getting birth control pills when they were just available) but not savvy. nobody ever told her about the facts of pregnancy. It was a time of shame - but only for the woman. The man is nowhere to be found. She has no one to confide in - and she remains in denial until she gives birth. The sad thing is, that wasn't so long ago. peggy seems to have come from the sticks;it’s 1960 & she is smart (getting birth control pills when they were just available) but not savvy. nobody ever told her about the facts of pregnancy. It was a time of shame – but only for the woman. The man is nowhere to be found. She has no one to confide in – and she remains in denial until she gives birth.
The sad thing is, that wasn’t so long ago.

]]> By: Freeze frame–some of my thoughts as S1 unfolded « Basket of Kisses http://madmenmad.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/a-basket-of-a-hell-of-a-lot-more-than-kisses/#comment-3425 Freeze frame–some of my thoughts as S1 unfolded « Basket of Kisses Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:34:40 +0000 http://madmenmad.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/a-basket-of-a-hell-of-a-lot-more-than-kisses/#comment-3425 [...] The thing about Basket of Kisses, as you basketcases know, is that we started it after Season One had aired. Pretty much, right after. The first post was basically Peggy? WTF??? only with a better title. [...] [...] The thing about Basket of Kisses, as you basketcases know, is that we started it after Season One had aired. Pretty much, right after. The first post was basically Peggy? WTF??? only with a better title. [...]

]]> By: AMC, you’re killing my buzz. « Basket of Kisses http://madmenmad.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/a-basket-of-a-hell-of-a-lot-more-than-kisses/#comment-1860 AMC, you’re killing my buzz. « Basket of Kisses Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:51:50 +0000 http://madmenmad.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/a-basket-of-a-hell-of-a-lot-more-than-kisses/#comment-1860 [...] then a blog was born. Basket of Kisses beginnings coincided with the blowup that was Peggy’s giving birth. We were going to give that child a home. [...] [...] then a blog was born. Basket of Kisses beginnings coincided with the blowup that was Peggy’s giving birth. We were going to give that child a home. [...]

]]> By: Sally Tomato http://madmenmad.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/a-basket-of-a-hell-of-a-lot-more-than-kisses/#comment-25 Sally Tomato Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:55:30 +0000 http://madmenmad.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/a-basket-of-a-hell-of-a-lot-more-than-kisses/#comment-25 My cousin totally was in denial about her pregnancy. Fortunately Sam is not the kind of kid you can deny. I loved that storyline. I figured she was pregnant back two episodes when her roommate yells at her for eating all the bologna, but then I totally forgot about it and gasped when the doctor told her she's "with child". Goddamn, I love that show. My cousin totally was in denial about her pregnancy. Fortunately Sam is not the kind of kid you can deny. I loved that storyline. I figured she was pregnant back two episodes when her roommate yells at her for eating all the bologna, but then I totally forgot about it and gasped when the doctor told her she’s “with child”.

Goddamn, I love that show.

]]> By: maurinsky http://madmenmad.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/a-basket-of-a-hell-of-a-lot-more-than-kisses/#comment-4 maurinsky Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:15:31 +0000 http://madmenmad.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/a-basket-of-a-hell-of-a-lot-more-than-kisses/#comment-4 <i>Here’s the thing with Peggy being pregnant. I’m not happy about it. It feels like a TV trick. And so to keep it authentic, they will need to write her as kind of insane. Pretty damn insane, or something darn close to it. My concern is that they won’t. write it that way.</i> It doesn't feel like a TV trick to me because I lived that kind of denial. I knew I was pregnant but didn't tell anyone and I denied I was pregnant when someone asked me about it. I had a part of my brain that believed it wasn't real. Denial is incredibly powerful. I don't think insanity or near insanity is necessary for this to be a realistic storyline. I will be surprised if she doesn't give the baby up for adoption, because I'm pretty sure that's what unwed mothers did back then. This storyline drives home to me the parallels between Peggy and Don. He made up a new life for himself, something I think Peggy is trying to do (not as successfully, if we look at the episode where she goes out on a date). He denies that he is Dick Whitman, like she denies that she is pregnant. And they both compartmentalize their relationships. Don has the picture of the ideal suburban life at at home, and part of him wants that, but then he has his love life in the city, and part of him - a more genuine part, IMO - wants that; Peggy has her job in the city and this vision of herself as a sophisticated Manhattanite that conflicts with the reality of a lonely existence in Brooklyn; they are both moving up the ladder at Sterling Cooper, but they both have secrets that cause them pain. Here’s the thing with Peggy being pregnant. I’m not happy about it. It feels like a TV trick. And so to keep it authentic, they will need to write her as kind of insane. Pretty damn insane, or something darn close to it. My concern is that they won’t. write it that way.

It doesn’t feel like a TV trick to me because I lived that kind of denial. I knew I was pregnant but didn’t tell anyone and I denied I was pregnant when someone asked me about it. I had a part of my brain that believed it wasn’t real. Denial is incredibly powerful. I don’t think insanity or near insanity is necessary for this to be a realistic storyline.

I will be surprised if she doesn’t give the baby up for adoption, because I’m pretty sure that’s what unwed mothers did back then.

This storyline drives home to me the parallels between Peggy and Don. He made up a new life for himself, something I think Peggy is trying to do (not as successfully, if we look at the episode where she goes out on a date). He denies that he is Dick Whitman, like she denies that she is pregnant. And they both compartmentalize their relationships. Don has the picture of the ideal suburban life at at home, and part of him wants that, but then he has his love life in the city, and part of him – a more genuine part, IMO – wants that; Peggy has her job in the city and this vision of herself as a sophisticated Manhattanite that conflicts with the reality of a lonely existence in Brooklyn; they are both moving up the ladder at Sterling Cooper, but they both have secrets that cause them pain.

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