My favourite TV ad man spouts memorable happiness quotes often on Mad Men. Watching Don and his colleagues is an exercise in what we think will bring us happiness versus what really does. He celebrates momentarily then moves on. It was an unexpected moment of happiness and maybe the most of what we can take from this episode: finding happiness in the little things.
Sure those big moments can bring great joy sometimes momentarily, sometimes lifelong but perhaps we should take time to appreciate and savour those little snapshots of happiness as well. It was a series finale that saw many characters find happiness in unexpected places. Share Via. One time secretary turned ad agency executive Peggy Olson Elisabeth Moss surprised herself by finding love, playboy Roger Sterling John Slattery found a woman that was his equal,ambitious Pete Campbell Vincent Kartheiser reunited with his estranged family, and voluptuous Joan Harris Christina Hendricks finally chose business over romance.
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View all posts by Victor de la Cruz. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. But there's certainly something creepy about how Don conducts his personal life given the alacrity with which he sees through the "perverts" at Wilkinson.
It's the same thing as the casting, only no cash changes hands. Until it does. In prostitution, societal boundaries between the personal and the professional break down, as Don's whorehouse upbringing taught him. Now it's just more out in the open than it is when Don applies the techniques of his dayjob to his nightlife. But the spheres of his existence had already begun to collide before his alleyway assignation. The dream then feeds back into Don's work, when it gives him the idea to contact her to see if her department store would adopt the agency's pantyhose client Topaz as a house brand.
Topaz's product itself can be seen not just as a knockoff of the more successful L'eggs brand it hopes to emulate, but the smooth legs of the archetypal Wikinson woman. But when Don learns Rachel has died, he returns to Diana's diner, perhaps hoping she'll replace the happiness he can no longer find with his late lover.
Only then does the sexual transaction take place. Like Midge, Rachel actually meant something to Don, yet some part of him still sees them as interchangeable"cogs in a wheel," as Ken Cosgrove describes his DuPont executive father-in-law elsewhere in the episode. The commodification of these human beings into goods to be selected from a menu, as if sex is a cosmic diner waitress asking you "what'll it be, honey?
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