I'm confused about Don's flashback and where it fits in to what we know about his upbringing. Was that his stepmother he was with?
One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up!
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sj - Apr 15, 2013 2:39:41 pm PDT #10722 of 11998
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
DavidS - Apr 15, 2013 2:41:09 pm PDT #10723 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Was that his stepmother he was with?
Yes, and she's pregnant with his half-brother Adam (the one who committed suicide).
sj - Apr 15, 2013 2:44:05 pm PDT #10724 of 11998
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Yes, and she's pregnant with his half-brother Adam (the one who committed suicide).
That's what I thought, but why were they there?
DavidS - Apr 15, 2013 2:47:49 pm PDT #10725 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That's what I thought, but why were they there?
Because she's a prostitute. Like Don's birth-mother.
sj - Apr 15, 2013 2:54:49 pm PDT #10726 of 11998
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Because she's a prostitute. Like Don's birth-mother.
I didn't think she was. I guess I'm forgetting a few things.
DavidS - Apr 15, 2013 3:04:40 pm PDT #10727 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I didn't think she was.
I didn't either. But we know Don's mom was a prostitute that his father saw, and that she died in childbirth. And we know from last season that Don grew up in a brothel. So it couldn't have been because of his birth mother.
sj - Apr 15, 2013 3:07:32 pm PDT #10728 of 11998
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
And we know from last season that Don grew up in a brothel.
Ok, that is the part that I was forgetting. So this is taking place after Don's father died, probably? The only thing I really remember about the stepmother was that she resented having to raise a prostitutes son, so I had a disconnect with her being a prostitute as well.
sj - Apr 15, 2013 3:11:11 pm PDT #10729 of 11998
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Does anyone think Megan was lying about the miscarriage?
le nubian - Apr 15, 2013 3:17:22 pm PDT #10730 of 11998
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
sj,
I think Don's stepmother fell into really hard times after his father died and went to a brothel. That's how I read that situation.
no, I don't think megan was lying. she seemed really upset in front of Don and in front of her neighbor friend. No reason to put on a face with both if she was making it up. No net benefit for her to make it up because she knew (at least last season) that Don wanted more kids presumably. But he seems ambivalent about it now.
DavidS - Apr 15, 2013 3:17:54 pm PDT #10731 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Does anyone think Megan was lying about the miscarriage?
No. But now that I think about it, I suspect Sylvia will get pregnant and keep the baby which is what will destroy two marriages.
Because as we saw with Peggy and Pete, and Joan and Roger, Mad Men will go full on soap opera melodrama with unintended babies.