So the saga of Don Draper continues, this season was absolutely fascinating, the scene of Don imagining his real mother was kind of jarring. Betty Draper has tp be ooe of the most complex characters on the show, Jones really did some stellar work with a character who has very little going on surface wise but an ocean of problems underneath, in one of the commentaries Weiner talked about Betty meeting Don and marrying him as a form of rebellion against her father, which makes sense. The birth of Gene kind of echoes Don's birth in that I got the feeling Betty kind of resented Don for knocking her up again, I'm probably off on that one though. The relationship with Henry is interesting, her marriage is crumbling, she finds a man who actually pays attention to her, he see's past the blonde goddes image to the woman inside and it excites her.
The character of Don continues to be fascinating, the writers well and truly gutted him, both at work and at home, the home front was the most devastating, Don's lies finally came home to roost, Hamm's breakdown while talking about the fate of his brother was nothing short of amazing. I find it interesting how we seem to continue to support Don even at his worst moments, and Don has plenty this season, the callous dismissal of Sal, the hypocritcal argument about Henry Francis with Betty, the lashing out at Peggy. Don has definitely been brought low.
Pete Campbell and Peggy Olson both continue to reveal themselves. Pete seemingly wants everything to happen all at once instead of gradually building his legacy, despite their faults, he and Trudy really do feel like a team, the pisode with Pete nailing that au pair was revealing in how Pete needs Trudy as a guilding influence otherwise Pete's mpra; compass goes astray, "don't ever go away without me again".
Peggy is slowly finding her sexuality, I wonder if she'll continue to see Duck considering how things ended in that finale.
Full credit to the actress playing Sally Draper, there's some seriously heavy stuff in this season, Don and Betty having 'The Talk' with kids is heartbreaking 'you say these things but you don't mean them, that's not fair' Sally's relationship with her grandpappy ending before it even began, I definitely see the same type of relationship Sally has with her brother that the teacher has with hers, she'll be constantly trying to protect him at the expense of her own life.
I have to say, the series ended on a fairly bright note, "Very good, merry christmas", nice to see Lane give his bosses a swift kick to the nuts. The only pn;y problem I have is that it seemed kind of a dick move for the rest of the staff not included in the little cabal, I understand why it was done but Kinsey, Ken and the rest of the staff probably didn't deserve it, well, maybe Kinsey.
