Mad Men 4.04 -- running commentary

[yakalskovich]

• Don isn't passing up any sign of decay, is he? Lighting one cigarette from the butt of another, now? Pur-leaze!
• Peggy meets a girl. This is somehow boding...
• Awww poor Pete still has to tell his father-in-law about the account getting kicked out, on top of the good news. And he's really genuinely happy about it!
• They not only have a conference table now, they have matching chairs, and curtains to alleviate that fish-tank atmosphere.
• I've been to group discussions like that before; I've been a market researcher to earn some pocket money while I was at university, and I could never say no when somebody else asked me, thinking that was goes around, comes around. Somehow. So, I've been there with groups of girls in certain target groups, but never ever has anybody started crying at such an event. I think Fay is overdoing it.
• They're all going boo-hoo-hoo now or what? Doesn't Allison realise they're being watched? Hell, she works there!
• And there she gives it all away to Peggy.
• What is this complimentary brown stuff they have on the table and are totally ignoring??
• That look!! Now he's got it coming. Yes, Allison, go for it! He deserves it! **cheers her on**
• On the other hand, he might fire her for it, and where would she be then?
• Oh no, clever Allison! She just gets a new job and asks for a recommendation. And she wants to work for a woman. No more male boss. Hah!
• Yay she throws a thing at him! Angry!Allison FTW! However, I fear that might mean she's not coming back. Another instance of Don totally having run out of his luck with women. And that look of Joan's is very telling, too. She knows, or at least guesses correctly.
• Hahahah Peggy looking over the partition through that stylish glass top. And eavesdropping! Tsk!
• Woah, Pete, instead of firing the client who happens to be his father-in-law, he goes for the entire account to conflict out Ponds instead. What a barracuda!!
• And I do like how they focus on the office again after having been all over the place in the last episode.
• Their cleaners come really late! Ours regularly unsettle me at six. And ours have that kid along who empties the wastepaper baskets. Which is just plain wrong. She's about ten. /OT
• Still with the hat, Don? It looks pathetic now. The entire Don is veering sharply towards the pathetic by now, actually.
• Heee Peggy doesn't even want to touch the handrail or the walls in that Bohemian dump!
• I like the way they do those unruly parties with people of all colours, spilling into corridors.
• Aha, yes, meeting that girl was meeting a girl, really. And Peggy is much cooler about it than Joan was, back when, with poor Carol. Also, they feel so bold and daring saying 'vagina'. **giggles**
• That is really a dark sad dump where Don is living. FFS, he could afford a coat of paint and some new furniture!
• 'For somebody to sell their soul, they gotta have one!' Hah, that is THE quote of the episode. That was one self-righteous little prig, in fact.
• They give him a no-nonsense granny as his secretary now! ROFL! Don's secretaries are something of a running gag, like the DADA teachers in Harry Potter.
• She headdesks! Literally! Bomp bomp bomp. Oh, Peggy!
• Everybody has office sofas, and takes little lie-downs.
• WTF was the thing with that ancient couple and the pears???