I kind of think Pete had the best line of the episode - outside of the sublime Joan-Peggy scene - with "you don't say congratulations to the bride. You say best wishes." He's like, GOOD LUCK WITH THIS ONE, GIRL. YOU'RE GOING TO NEED IT.
Felt for poor Peggy, who clearly identified with Faye and saw her passed over. (did the copywrighters suss out the relationship? I kind of got the feeling from those scenes that Peggy knew.) She's starting to build this world of her peers and she wants to marry one of them if at all.
PREGNANCY FAKEOUT DISLIKE.
Kinda makes me sad how far we haven't come, but happy for the two characters that are moving towards us, that I've had similar conversations about acquaintances getting married. Like the 90%-closeted friend from college who got engaged to an evangelical dude, gulp, right around my law school graduation. I've been making chirpy bridesmaid calls like "you only get married once! You get what you want! get it girl you GET IT!" and then turn to my roommate and say "that was a RIDICULOUS LIE. Especially the only getting married once bit." Pretty sure I'm only in the bridal party to behave badly enough to make her look good. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Though that role is pretty much covered by Betty on MM. I just loved being able to sit there and commiserate with them for a minute. They deserve to kick back and bond with each other. That, if anything, is what's going to set off the next weekend. Moving towards consolidated female power in the workplace (Megan rumored to be moving toward copywriter). Peggy moving up changed her life and things for Don. But this allows for a great shift in office power dynamics.
And YES on Betty. I feel like the audience and writers and characters decide she's a child because the psychiatrist Don forced her to in order to spy on her said she was like a child because he was too incompetent to see she was depressed. It's not unreasonable for this one act of paternalism to lead to such a widespread perception, but I guess that's what they're going with. It just seems nasty, you know? She runs a house and takes care of a family which is more than a full-time job even with help. Those are not the acts of a child playing house. Any childishness we see is her desperate attempt to retain some individual identity, that's not Don or Henry or the kids, and I think that is admirable on its own, even if the actions she performs while inhabiting that identity are not admirable. But the show's doing something it didn't do before, which is judge her by how good a wife and mother she is and show her as a bad person by being a Bad Mommy, and there's no greater villain than the Evil Stepmother.
I think I just wrote a Betty apologia by accident here? sorry if got o/t Sedatives kicking in fast. <3
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Felt for poor Peggy, who clearly identified with Faye and saw her passed over. (did the copywrighters suss out the relationship? I kind of got the feeling from those scenes that Peggy knew.) She's starting to build this world of her peers and she wants to marry one of them if at all.
PREGNANCY FAKEOUT DISLIKE.
Kinda makes me sad how far we haven't come, but happy for the two characters that are moving towards us, that I've had similar conversations about acquaintances getting married. Like the 90%-closeted friend from college who got engaged to an evangelical dude, gulp, right around my law school graduation. I've been making chirpy bridesmaid calls like "you only get married once! You get what you want! get it girl you GET IT!" and then turn to my roommate and say "that was a RIDICULOUS LIE. Especially the only getting married once bit." Pretty sure I'm only in the bridal party to behave badly enough to make her look good. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Though that role is pretty much covered by Betty on MM. I just loved being able to sit there and commiserate with them for a minute. They deserve to kick back and bond with each other. That, if anything, is what's going to set off the next weekend. Moving towards consolidated female power in the workplace (Megan rumored to be moving toward copywriter). Peggy moving up changed her life and things for Don. But this allows for a great shift in office power dynamics.
And YES on Betty. I feel like the audience and writers and characters decide she's a child because the psychiatrist Don forced her to in order to spy on her said she was like a child because he was too incompetent to see she was depressed. It's not unreasonable for this one act of paternalism to lead to such a widespread perception, but I guess that's what they're going with. It just seems nasty, you know? She runs a house and takes care of a family which is more than a full-time job even with help. Those are not the acts of a child playing house. Any childishness we see is her desperate attempt to retain some individual identity, that's not Don or Henry or the kids, and I think that is admirable on its own, even if the actions she performs while inhabiting that identity are not admirable. But the show's doing something it didn't do before, which is judge her by how good a wife and mother she is and show her as a bad person by being a Bad Mommy, and there's no greater villain than the Evil Stepmother.
I think I just wrote a Betty apologia by accident here? sorry if got o/t Sedatives kicking in fast. <3