An episode that starts off a little soft (I’m not a big fan
of the Peggy/priest storyline, in general) ramps up in a big way halfway
through when Sterling Cooper learns its pitch to American Airlines is happening
a week earlier than expected. Everyone comes in on Palm Sunday, and for the
first time we truly get to see Don work a problem from the beginning. Knowing
the effort that goes into the pitch makes the final aborted meeting with
American all the more of a gutshot.
Best Scene: It’s
really one long sequence in three parts: Don comes home after the failed
American Airlines pitch and Bobby does another thing to make Betty mad, leading
to an intense fight between Betty and Don that ends with them shoving each
other. But the tension melts away as quickly as it began when poor little Bobby
appears in the doorway and asks Don about his father. In a crushing line, Bobby
says: “We have to get you a new daddy.” The sequence concludes that evening as
Don and Betty are turning in for the night; Betty is still after Don to spank
the children, but Don refuses. “My father beat the hell outta me,” he tells
her. “All it did was make me fantasize about the day I could murder him. … And
I wasn’t half as good as Bobby.”
Best Line: Don to
Betty: “You want me to bring home what I got at the office today? I’ll put you
through that window.”
Grade: B+
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