PREVIOUSLY, ON: Mad Men Returns with a Thanksgiving Feast - Page 2
If Thanksgiving dinner with Henry’s family is any indication, the lovable Sally Draper is not going to make this divorce easy on Mommy. That isn’t to say Sally is all about Daddy. The kiss on the head Don gave Sally annoyed her, to say the least. Sally has grown into an important character on the show and she is certainly going to help shape the future of Don and Betty’s … thing.
Of course, the heart of the show is still Don Draper and his identity crisis. He has always been a mysterious man and in this episode they outwardly show how we aren’t the only ones aware of this. The lack of information in his Ad Age write-up loses the jai-alai account.
After the loss, we see Don with a call girl. (It is also Thanksgiving and the call girl has to hurry to get to dinner.) It’s clear she is a regular and that she knows what Don likes. What Don likes is being slapped in the face during sweaty Greenwich Village sex, which means it wasn’t just a reaction to losing an account. It’s just Don’s thing, and it is probably deeply rooted in something we may never see.
Don also fails in the two-piece bathing suit campaign for Jantzen, despite its brilliance. It should be no surprise that Mad Men used the idea of hiding behind a veil (in this case, a black bar covering a woman’s bikini top) to close their season premiere. This was how he treated the initial interview to kick off the episode, and his failures are what make him do another interview to end it. You don’t have to know or like Don Draper, and that used to be fine as long as you liked his ideas. Now it seems as if the two are forced to go hand-in-hand.
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