Different things put different smiles on different faces

Wow, what an excellent episode Sunday night.  Let me get right to the meat and potatoes of this week’s show, Don and Peggy will be reunited at a new ad agency!!!!!!  It really was the last thing I thought would happen but it makes so much sense, Lane Pryce is deceased and Cutler from Cutler, Gleasan and Chough is sick with cancer so they had to do something and what a great fit it is.  So in a moment in a dark bar in Detroit, sipping a few old fashioned the long time rivals being Don Draper and Ted Chough formulate the plan to merge the two firms and also lock down the Chevy account at the same time.  A real automobile account being what Don has always wanted in his career.  It’s good to see Don happy and getting his creative skills back to use. 

How about good old Roger Sterling, he strategically carries on a romance with a stewardess and gets tipped off by her when high level executives are stuck in the airport for long waits or delays.  He then shows up to the airport, buys the unsuspecting mark a drink and has his girl get him on the flight wherever it may be going so he can get his foot in the door on the ad business.  The maneuvering by Roger with his airport girl is how he got Don the meeting with Chevy.  What a clever move by Roger, its great see Roger back in some action, selling and doing what a good account man would do back in 1968. 

Then comes the public stock offering that Bert Cooper and Pete Campbell were working on, the deal may or may not have fallen apart with the news that the agency lost the Jaguar account and the Vicks Chemical account.  The agency loses the Vicks account because Pete runs into his father in law of all people at a New York City brothel, his father in law tells Pete he’s despicable for being there and pulls his business………interesting.  And the jaguar account goes away when Don tells the slimy guy from the dealers association over dinner to basically go find a new agency.  Don never liked that guy, the way he asked to be set up with Joan for a night so he would vote in the agency’s favor at the pitch meeting.  What a slime ball, good for Don.

Peggy does get an apartment with her hippie boyfriend in not such a good area of New York.  She gets kissed by her boss Ted Chough and continues to fantasize about him later in the episode.  There are always lots of relationships that start at work, this won’t be the 1^st or last that’s for sure.  The look on her face when Don was in Ted office and they told her about the merger was great. 

The best is yet to come this season, is the new agency going to be Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Gleason and Chough?  Check out the sneak peak of next week’s episode, we see Peggy is back and Ted is working in the new office with his new team. 

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