Mad Men is back and my life now has a little more purpose. To quickly recap, in Season 4, Don drank a lot and blacked out a couple of times (maybe almost even every night). Don was hooking up with a prostitute, got into a semi-relationship with Dr. Faye Miller (by "dr." I mean consumer researcher), then suddenly proposed to his secretary. Also in Season 4 just when you think you can't hate Betty anymore, she proves us wrong. Joan got knocked up by Roger and Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce lost their biggest account Lucky Strike putting them on the verge of closure. In a stroke of genius (or stupidity), Don took out a full page ad in the NYTimes stating why he “quit tobacco.”
In preparation for Season 5, I recently watched a couple of episodes from Season 4 and I’d like to dedicate this blog post to who I think is the most unfortunate of Don Draper’s women, Faye Miller. Faye Miller seemed to have done everything right but Don took her for granted. She is intelligent, beautiful, successful and great in bed. Faye is not very good with children but she genuinely tried to be and she took care of Don when he was at his worst. Faye’s biggest flaw was that she really liked Don. Faye seemed perfect for Don. She is his equal in the professional world and she is one of few people who truly knew his real identity and accepted him despite the lie. Faye even jeopardized her job for Don by crossing ethical bounds to help his career. In the end, Don dumped Faye for his younger secretary who he slept with once and babysat for him in California for a weekend. Perhaps I am more sympathetic to Faye out of all of Don’s women because I hate to see the Faye's in the world getting taken for granted. Faye is probably the type of woman who end up staying single because all of the men at her level will leave her for a HYPOA (hot young piece of ass). Megan is a nice girl, but once upon a time so was the young Betty.
In this new season, here’s what I’m hoping for and predicting:
1.) I hope we see more of creepy Glen and I’m predicting he’ll be a teenager with a driver’s license sneaking around with Sally.
2.) I hope we see Sal.
3.) I think Midge (Don’s former mistress, artist from the village) overdoses on smack.
4.) I think Peggy becomes a lesbian… wait did she already do that?
5.) I hope Carla gets her revenge on that bitch Betty for firing her.
