![]() ![]() So when Dawn finishes the episode in her new very own office, there I was, cheering from the sidelines. Dan Mendelsohn, in this mean but compelling review of the series three years ago, wrote: "Although much has been made of the show's treatment of race, the 'treatment' is usually little more than a lazy allusion – race never really makes anything happen in the show." ![]() Bertram Cooper also came out of hibernation for this episode, to make a bigoted objection to Dawn's move to reception, and to be disloyal to Roger for at least a year, Bertram's main job has been to look tired.īut, still on the subject of Dawn. Don drinks a lot and knows it.ĭawn and Shirley are subjected to a kind of racist secretary-draughts, where they swap the black ones around with the white ones astonishingly, this ends with Dawn getting Joan's old job. All that matters is that they send you in a direction, and you follow it. The thing about signs is, it doesn't really matter what they're made of. It's not what you do to check if you're drinking it yourself, since if you're drinking enough to need to check, you'll drink half the bottle. This is the kind of "sign" only a non-drinker would think of – it's what you do to check if someone else is drinking your drink. The ghost of self-awareness crept up at the start of the episode, with Don drawing a line on his bottle, to indicate how much he'd drunk. ![]() "I told the truth about myself but it wasn't the right time … then I was ashamed." It had a nice, biblical ring, but it missed out the part where he drinks five fingers of fake-coloured alcohol beforehand. She caught him in the lie and now believes he no longer works in the office or, indeed, at all (unless you count hassling Dawn with unreasonable demands, which, now I come to think about it, was 30% of his job). He says she's just like her mother, which is true: the line could have been written into Betty's script at any point during season two.Īt one point Sally also says, "I'm so many people." Don eyes her contemplatively, thinking, "She's more complex than I realised" or "That's the kind of thing people say just before they have a nervous breakdown" or "Have you been reading Derrida? Is that what they're telling you to do on your fancy campus?" (One of the reasons Don makes me so tense is because I'm always wonderng what he's thinking.) I thought, "You're many people, Sally, but you're mostly Betty."īut back to the lie. "It's more embarrassing for me to catch you in a lie than it is for you to be lying," she says. Sally, by contrast, does not get tense she matches it with a bad mood of her own. I know that I've been watching Mad Men too long, because I get tense when Don is in a bad mood. ![]()
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