Breaking Up In An Ambulance

It doesn’t happen every day, some girls wish they could do it when angered and others wouldn’t dream of it.  This episode of Mad Men gets violent, yes that’s right, violent.  Peggy who is living in some rundown apartment building in some terrible part of Manhattan is so freaked out that she is going to be robbed that she ties a knife to the end of a broom stick like some sort of homemade spear and walks around her apartment at night listening to all of the noises outside preparing herself for an intruder that may come in.  Well her hippie boyfriend sneaks up from behind her and he takes a shank right to the gut.  On the ride to the emergency room, knife still lodged in his stomach he tells her he thinks it’s about time they break up.  Think so eh??

In this episode little Bobby Draper has a camping weekend away, Don goes up north to the camp site and runs into his ex-wife Betty who is also up for the weekend.  Betty is back to looking very trim again, she changed her dark hair back to her blonde hair and shed the excess weight that she had or at least the writer of the show put on her to signify some sort of 60’s housewife mid life crisis.  Don pulls up in his Caddy as she is being stared at by the gas station attendant, after the kids are asleep they have an evening of sitting outside on the porch of the motel drinking and reminiscing about how they used to be together.  Betty gets up and walks into her hotel room, Don is watching her closely as she leaves the hotel door room open behind her.  Don being Don follows her in and then this former married couple and both currently married man and woman gets back together again intimately.  Betty makes an interesting comment in bed to Don about the only mistake that poor girl Megan, (Don current wife) had made was to think that falling in love with him was the way to get close to him.  The next morning Henry, Betty’s current husband comes up for the camping weekend.  Don walks into the restaurant as Henry and Betty are eating breakfast, he says good morning to the both of them.  Little does Henry know what she was doing last night with Don.  The drama continues, didn’t see that one coming. 

While Don is away Megan is home having drinks with her bosses wife, the same boss and wife who asked Megan and Don to come home with them to, “explore” during a prior dinner party.  She spills what she has been feeling about Don and her personal life and also vents about her new role in the daytime television show.  The friend takes this as a signal that she should make a move on Megan; she does and is politely denied.  Poor Megan, all she wanted was a friend to talk with and she gets some crazy woman who’s had too many drinks and has too many other ideas about how the evening should go. 

They actually do get some work done in this episode as it pertains to advertising; Don and Ted are working on an idea and ask Peggy for an opinion.  She doesn’t like being stuck in the middle between her mentor and her current crush to be the final decision make ran whose idea is better.  She stands up to Don and tells him she doesn’t like it, it’s very interesting to see how far Peggy has come and evolved in this storyline. 

The season is near coming to a close, 1968 is almost in the books.  I can’t wait until next Sunday, 10 pm on AMC for the next episode of Mad Men.