Where have we heard that before?
Nixon vs Kennedy. Rachel to Don, when he wants them to run away together. Don to Pete, when he attempts blackmail. You haven’t thought this through. You haven’t thought this through.
In the Wheel, Don learns that Adam has hung himself.
Don had determined that he wants nothing to do with Adam, ever. And gave him $5,000 and orders never to resurface.
Don hadn’t considered that he would ever want to have a relationship with Adam, but that changed.
Don hadn’t considered that giving Adam that money and sending him out of his life forever might wound him beyond repair, but it did.
He thought. We watched him. He thought and thought and thought.
But somehow he didn’t quite think it through.
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July 1, 2008 at 5:56 am
Now I’m sad.
July 1, 2008 at 8:02 am
FYI – article in today’s NY Post – S2 episode review (sort of) … Linda Stasi’s usually a better writer than this. But she’s obviously a fan so we’ll let this one go.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07012008/tv/mad_to_order_118038.htm
July 1, 2008 at 9:12 am
It’s right over there, opened to the page, I just haven’t had a chance to read it yet.
July 1, 2008 at 9:37 am
Deb, I wrote it to be sad. It’s so tragic and got kind of overlooked in the scope of the season.
And Dan, the article is certainly favorable but so obnoxiously written I can’t dignify it with… anything.
July 1, 2008 at 4:15 pm
(Roberta here, adding this:
S2 SPOILER ALERT)
The NY Post – S2 episode review (sort of) by Linda Stasi shocked me when I read:
“When we return (or by the second episode, at any rate), it’s March 1, 1962, the day that John Glenn got a ticker tape parade in lower Manhattan and an American Airlines plane with 70 people aboard crashed after takeoff into Jamaica Bay. And yes, the crash has a big effect on the people at Sterling Cooper both personally and professionally.”
My father was supposed to be on the flight that crashed but didn’t because his connecting flight from Mexico City had arrived late into NYC.
My mother and I didn’t find this out until three hours after the crash when he was finally able to get a call through to us.
July 1, 2008 at 4:18 pm
John. wow. That’s a fuck of a long three hours.
July 1, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Yes Roberta, it was an awful three hours!
Back in 1962 there was minimum telephone capacity for calls to Europe. He was finally able to reach my mother by going to the French Consulate in NYC and they arranged for a telegram to be sent to Paris and then an envoy to come to our house with the news.
July 1, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Ahh… now more insight into the French.
July 3, 2008 at 9:03 am
[…] but highly favorable, review of the first couple of episodes of season 2 (hat tip to Basketeer dansj). When we return (or by the second episode, at any rate), it’s March 1, 1962, the day that […]