Mad Men Season 6, Episodes 6 and 7 plus a few Liebsters!

For those of you who are not watching Mad Men, may I just introduce two of the 6 bloggers I forwarded the Liebster award to?

The first in alphabetical order is Kelly from A Soulful Home.
She is a new blogger like myself and has a lovely blog based in Sunny California.  She is an attorney who now turns her dab hand to creating lots of little elements that make her home so soulful; 
by name, by nature!

The second is Colleen from Forcailini 
which is Gaelic that means for the girls.
She is a fashion / nutrition blogger.
 I love her style and the items she picks out and models for us.
But she also "sneaks in a few vegetables" and writes informative posts about nutrition and health which comes naturally to her because she is a professional nutritionist!

They are both super friendly so please visit 
and don't be shy to say hello! 

So now on to Mad Men.
  Things are going back to the way things used to be.

People are back to work. 
Back to creating and conniving and scheming!

I love the period of growth.  

Even SCDP was getting a bit stagnant wasn't it?

I am worried that the car itself might be a dud...

Everything and everyone in it was getting so stagnant except perhaps Roger.

The star of the show is undoubtedly Roger. 
There is a side to him that is so sweet and unexpectedly sentimental.  I was rather touched he is now shining his own shoes;he is remaining faithful to his shoe shine guy who passed.

His womanizing is playful and immature whereas 
Don just screws women and then, screws them over.

 I felt how a Mediterranean father must feel when his son starts playing the field. It's wrong I know.

Joan was the mouthpiece to voice our anger at Don, not just at the failed stock flotation but just in general.

However, I wasn't placated and still wanted to tell him off myself. 
I know there is an attempt at some sort of frisson from the writers for a relationship between her and Bob, the eager general intern but I don't feel any excitement about it.

But on a side note, didn't she look gorgeous as the possible fourth Charlie's Angels that never was...

Although Pete was not admiring her hair...

I know that the merger of the two agencies might be a little contrived and forced but considering where we were going beforehand, this was a welcome development and 

I was willing to look the other way.

Peggy's face was priceless at the news and I looked forward to seeing her with Don again.  In episode 7, the expectation paid off when she told Don that people need to move forward.

It happened again.  Another person who was meant to bring in change and symbolized hope was murdered.  
Bobby Kennedy  got shot.  
I suppose this is what the country would have felt like if Obama was murdered just before he got elected the first time.
 
But all that Don was worried about was the demise of 
his affair with Sylvia.

When he got home after Sylvia dumped him,
Megan was boring him and me about her job or something.

 It was so dull that we were both zoning her out.

The alpha male vs beta male supremacy tug of war was definitely won by Ted.  He may not be able to drink as much as Don. 
Don is old school but Ted is new renaissance man.

He is the guy who flies his own plane to a meeting and teaches Don that when flying you don't know if you are upside down unless you check your instruments...Ted is an new age ad man so his put downs were rather metaphorical.

The recent kidnapping and sexual slavery case in Ohio was just another in a string of these niche scenarios that has become increasingly more common in the headlines.  This would make us all think, what kind of man would do this?

But the sexual and power dominance and submissive dynamic that Don was trying to implement and enforce was bordering dangerously close to these cases.  It was uncomfortable to see that the one time he needed and wanted guaranteed love and intimacy from a woman that he wanted her in the hotel room with nothing except for the anticipation of seeing him.

He wouldn't even let her keep a book to read.  

Once I saw the mild parallels of sexual enslavement and captivity, 
I have now put Don definitely in the corner.  I am not saying his actions are excusable although I do know that Sylvia was under no real harm nor duress and she entered the "game" willingly. 
But unless the writers let us in some more of his childhood secrets, there is just no pathos left for him 
which is dangerous territory indeed.  

We can't watch a show if we don't care right?

PS I know sometimes lives can be so busy plus facebook has done something to my cortex where sometimes I just want to click "like" so I have added a box for you to click instead of commenting! 

PPS Don't forget I have a 6 month giveaway so please put your name for either the scarf or perfume as listed on my previous post.  :)