I watch so that you don't have to
I finished watching the first season of Mad Men on On Demand this weekend. As much as I continued to enjoy watching Christina Hendricks strut around the office in her tight, form-fitting dresses (check out Episode 10, fellas), the major revelations in the last couple episodes were ridiculous. Don Draper, the lunkhead lead, turned out to be an imposter posing as a guy he accidentally killed in Korea (how did I know it was Korea? It looked like they rented some of the tents from M*A*S*H. Also, to cover the fact that he wasn't 10 years younger looking in the corny combat scenes, they had the actor wear his helmet real low over his face!). If this plot device didn't seem too farfetched, they topped themselves in the final episode when the mousy secretary with aspirations, Peggy, had a baby out of the blue (literally, we're supposed to believe that she didn't even know she was pregnant!). As Xmastime would say, CAMON!
posted by BayonneMike at 9:18 AM
6 Comments:
It does happen--not knowing, probably happened more back then even. Still, the Draper thing was kind of a letdown. That said, I still liked watching it.
I know it happens, but usually to the young, the poor, and the uneducated (it also happens more often to heavyset girls). Peggy wasn't any of these. Are you telling me you didn't want to throw your shoe at the TV when they brought the baby in?
Sounds like Don Draper has a similar backstory to Principal Skinner on the Simpsons (that was not a popular episode either).
i liked it less and less as it went on; some of the stuff (draper identity) seemed desperately far-fetched. snapshot of that period was cool, but then it became reidiculous.
Peggy's a weird character. She can write and be bossy yet is very immature or naive might be the better word in other parts of her life so it didn't seem completely outrageous, only a little outrageous. I threw a chicken wing, not a shoe.
Who shot J.R.?
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