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Well, it wasn't the kick-ass, in-your-face finale of last year, but the season 4 finale of Mad Men still had some surprises -- and some kick-ass moments.
First, the really big news: Don (Jon Hamm) and Megan (Jessica Pare) are engaged! And she's wearing his dead, fake wife's engagement ring!
Second piece of news: Peggy (Elisabeth Moss), with a little help from Ken (Aaron Staton), gets the agency its first business in ten weeks by snagging a pantyhose account.
Third piece of news: Good ol' Bets (January Jones) fires Carla (Deborah Lacey) after a million years of service. Over crazy Glenn. WTF? The only recurring black character for miles around and she gets fired? Oh, a hard rain is gonna fall from this angry black woman as soon as she signs up with the local chapter of the NAACP. (Um, I don't mean me, I mean Carla.)
Fourth piece of news: Joan (Christina Hendricks) is pregnant and hubby, who's in Vietnam, thinks it's his. Think again, son. That little bun in the oven has Sterling stamped on his butt -- and just wait 'til Daddy Roger finds out Joan didn't go through with "the procedure."
Fifth and final piece of big news: Bets and the new hubby finally move out of the old Draper homestead. When Don tells Betty in the middle of the empty house they shared that he's engaged she can barely choke out a whispered, "I'm happy for you." Yeah, right.
But now that we're back on the topic, let's focus on the upcoming Whitman, er, Draper nuptials. Too bad premarital counseling wasn't popular in the 1960s, 'cause Don and Megan are prime candidates. Here are a few of the questions I'd ask:
- Don, are you going to wait until before or after your 10th wedding anniversary to tell your wife that you're an imposter who deserted from the army and took over another man's life?
- Don, do you remember when Megan said she wanted a career like Peggy? What do you think of that?
- Don, and when Megan gets pregnant and decides she wants a career as well, what will you think of that?
- Don, are you going to wait until after the honeymoon to cheat on Megan, or are you just going to start her off right and fool around during the engagement also?
- Megan, honey -- what the hell are you thinking? Yeah, he's hot and powerful and has lots of money: Screw around with him, sure, but don't marry him!
But who didn't love the wonderful, over-cigarettes bonding moment between Peggy and Joan after they find out about the engagement?
They're both like, "We work our butts off and can barely catch a break and little Megan'll probably be replacing us in a couple of days. Can you believe this sh*t!"
Finally, let's turn our attention to next season. So how far into the future are they going to jump this time?
The title of the finale, "Tomorrowland," just about screams that once again they're going to jump ahead. One year? Five years? Ten? Nah, not ten.& No one wants to see handsome Jon Hamm aged that much.
I'll go out on a limb here and say one year -- just enough time for Don to have gotten himself into real trouble all over again.
Bloggers on the Mad Men Finale
- Loryn Wilson at Bueno was "hurt about Dr. Faye."
- Meredith O'Brien from Notes at the Asylum was "very annoyed" with Matthew Weiner after the finale.
- Lylee2 of Lylee's Blog was yelling at the screen through the episode.
- RC at Strange Culture analyzes Megan.
- The Undomestic Goddess: "Don I Am Disapopint"
- Gayle Force at Unnatural Forces was disappointed too.
- Tami at What Tami Said wrote an excellent post last month for Change.org: "'Mad Men' and Society's Race Problem."
Photos courtesy AMC
Megan Smith is the BlogHer Contributing Editor covering Television/Online Video.. Her other blogs are Megan's Minute, quirky commentary around the clock and Meg's Rad Reviews.
