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First season, Peggy had Pete's baby and gave it up.
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it is why she was so shook when Pete's mom was talking about their baby confusing her for pete's wifeOh, I was just thinking this season. Kinda forgot about that.
I thought she was just uncomfortable and confused She didn't look shook to me.it is why she was so shook when Pete's mom was talking about their baby confusing her for pete's wifeOh, I was just thinking this season. Kinda forgot about that.
i think the moral of that incident was how far he is willing to go for himself. it can be argued that he saved the kid primarily to rekindle his affair with sylvia...the first person he called was not the Dr, but his wife (plus 'you owe me one').
didn't he say he tried to call the husband but nobody answered? COuld have sworn I heard him say that when she asked him what he wanted. Unless he was lying
I found “In Care Of” somewhat emotionally overwhelming, and that was because Don Draper chose to stop lying. Granted, he did so in a manner that wasn’t entirely convincing, and he did so in a way that blows up the fundamental premise of the show, but he did so in a way that also allowed him the freedom Trudy talked about with her estranged husband. Losing everything also means having the freedom of getting to choose what comes next without the crushing weight of expectations. Mad Men has frequently been about how everybody around Don Draper seems capable of change, even if he himself doesn’t, but “In Care Of” shows a man who’s gotten tired of being himself and tries any number of methods to overcome the fundamental realities of his life. He pours his alcohol down the sink. He promises his wife a new life via change of location. He, himself, steals another man’s idea that he might attempt to outrun the demons that have taken up residence in New York. And finally, he starts being honest—with his coworkers, with two representatives of the Hershey Corporation, with his children, and maybe even with himself. The truth sets him free. It also kicks his ***.
The show has been using Peggy and Pete as mirrors for each other’s experiences for a long time, so it’s fitting that Peggy would find herself the most constrained of any character in this episode, the least free. She’s had essentially no choice in anything that’s happened to her this season, with her employment situation being decided for her, her boyfriend breaking up with her, and her lover deciding to split after just one sexual encounter because he realizes that he needs to cleave ever more heavily to his family. (The finale is also full of people who have families drawing nearer to them, from Roger and Kevin to Pete being with his child for the first time onscreen this season, right before he must leave her.) And yet at the end of all of this, Peggy ends up as the de facto creative director of Sterling Cooper & Partners. She’s gotten to an amazingly high pinnacle, yet she’s gotten here by being manipulated and bruised at every turn. Or, as she says to Ted, it must be nice to have decisions.